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Publisher: EC

Title: Frontline Combat
Issue: 6
Page Count: 36
Publish Date: May-June 1952
Volume: 1
Contributors: Editor: Harvey Kurtzman

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Frontline Combat 6
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Story Title: [ no title ] - cover
Pages:1
Pencils:Harvey Kurtzman
Inks:Harvey Kurtzman
Colors:Marie Severin
Letters:Ben Oda
Genre:war


Story Title: Harvey Kurtzman - text article
Features:The EC "Artist of the Issue"
Pages:1
Pencils:? (photo)
Inks:? (photo)
Letters:typeset
Genre:biography
Characters:Harvey Kurtzman


Story Title: A Platoon! - comic story
Pages:8
Pencils:John Severin [as Severin] (signed)
Inks:Bill Elder [as Elder] (signed)
Colors:Marie Severin
Letters:Ben Oda
Genre:war
Characters:unnamed platoon captain; unnamed lieutenant (death); unnamed platoon sergeant (death); unnamed squad leaders; Corporal Ed Daley; Peewee; North Korean soldiers (villains, many die)
Synopsis:Readers are invited to join in with a platoon during the Korean War. Peewee can't understand why Ed doesn't want his sergeant's rating. But Ed tells him why: he doesn't want the responsibilities associated with the rank and the fact that most sergeants in Korea are getting killed.


Story Title: War of 1812! - comic story
Pages:7
Pencils:Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)
Inks:Wally Wood [ as Wood] (signed)
Colors:Marie Severin
Letters:Ben Oda
Genre:non-fiction; historical; war
Characters:American soldiers (many die); British soldiers (villains); Ke-wi-ex-kim (villain, death); Tecumsah (villain, Indian Chief, death); the Indians (villains, many die)
Synopsis:Indian Ki-wi-ex-kim laments on the fact that years ago, the Delawares and the Mohicans welcomed the white man as brothers to this new land, but now the whites now seem to be interested only in taking everything that the red man has away from them. Under the leadership of the great Tecumsah, the Indian decides to fight back, and all seems to go well until Tecumsah falls in battle.


Story Title: Fate - text story
Pages:1
Pencils:Harvey Kurtzman (masthead)
Inks:Harvey Kurtzman (masthead)
Colors:Marie Severin ?
Letters:Typeset
Genre:war
Characters:espionage team [Norman Williams (villain, death); David Bentley; other member unnamed]
Synopsis:A three man team of espionage agents flew from England towards Berlin, the heart of Germany, seeking an isolated German farmhouse where members of the underground were to be found. They bailed out, with only Williams drifting eastward away from the other two. Seeking him, they finally located him, swinging limply from a tree. His chute had fouled in the limbs of a tree, breaking his neck. When the others prepared to bury him, they discovered papers on his body, indicating that he was an elite operative of the German Secret Services, under the command of S.S. Lt. Colonel Otto Skorzeny!


Story Title: [ no title ] - letters page
Features:Front Lines
Pages:0.6
Pencils:Harvey Kurtzman (spot illustration)
Inks:Harvey Kurtzman (spot illustration)
Colors:Marie Severin ?
Letters:typeset


Story Title: [ no title ] - statement of ownership
Pages:0.4
Letters:typeset


Story Title: Ace! - comic story
Pages:6
Pencils:John Severin [as J. Severin] (signed)
Inks:John Severin [as J. Severin] (signed)
Colors:Marie Severin
Letters:Ben Oda
Genre:war
Characters:Lieutenant Harry Chesterfield (American pilot, death); Lieutenant Tram (American pilot); Lieutenant Mambro (American pilot); The Germans (villains, some die)
Synopsis:Confident Lt. Chesterfield, having just downed his 3rd Pfalz of the month, tells his comrades in arms that he is going after a Rumpler next. He succeeds and a day later goes up against his 5th and 6th planes. If he bags one of them, he becomes an ace! What Harry doesn't realize is that the Germans have set a trap for him, a fatal trap.


Story Title: Bellyrobber! - comic story
Pages:7
Pencils:Jack Davis (signed)
Inks:Jack Davis (signed)
Colors:Marie Severin
Letters:Ben Oda
Genre:war
Characters:Sergeant "Bellyrobber" Boon; U.S. soldiers [Mize; rest unnamed (some die)]; Shnooker (Korean orphan boy, death); North Koreans (villains, many die)
Synopsis:The story of a tough Army cook, Bellyrobber Boon, who finds a young Korean orphan boy in his tent, and who gradually bonds with the child, whom he names Shnooker, changing his whole disposition. Then, one day, a band of North Korean soldiers sneak into the mess tent and kill all of Boon's cooks, as well as little Shnooker for which Boon kills all of the enemy soldiers. But that changes Boon's whole demeanor and he becomes the hard-boiled Sarge the soldiers once knew.


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