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Issue Details

Issue #5
Published March-April 1952
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Harvey Kurtzman

Cover Details - "The planes can't dig 'em out!"

Genre war
Script Harvey Kurtzman
Pencils Harvey Kurtzman
Inks Harvey Kurtzman
Colors Marie Severin
Letters Ben Oda
Reprinted in Frontline Combat (Gemstone, 1995 series) #5 (August 1996); in Complete Frontline Combat, The (Russ Cochran, 1982 series) #1

1 page text article "The EC Artists of the Issue - Severin & Elder"

Genre bio
Letters Typeset
Notes Biographies of Severin and Elder, with photo.

8 page Frontline Combat story "442nd Combat Team"

Synopsis A story about the experience of a combat unit composed of Japanese-Americans during the war. The enemy attempts to get them to come over to their side, but they attack and win, and when questioned they give a thumbs up and say "The enemy forgot that we're Americans!"
Script Harvey Kurtzman
Pencils John Severin
Inks Bill Elder
Colors Marie Severin
Letters Ben Oda
Reprinted In Frontline Combat (Gemstone, 1995 series) #5 (August 1996); in Complete Frontline Combat, The (Russ Cochran, 1982 series) #1

7 page Frontline Combat story "Stonewall Jackson!"

Synopsis A story about the death of Stonewall Jackson, told by the confederate soldier who accidentally shot him during nighttime battle conditions.
Script Harvey Kurtzman
Pencils Jack Davis
Inks Jack Davis
Colors Marie Severin
Letters Ben Oda
Reprinted In Frontline Combat (Gemstone, 1995 series) #5 (August 1996); in Complete Frontline Combat, The (Russ Cochran, 1982 series) #1

1 page text story "The King's Spy"

Script Harvey Kurtzman
Pencils Harvey Kurtzman
Inks Harvey Kurtzman
Reprinted in Complete Frontline Combat, The (Russ Cochran, 1982 series) #1

6 page Frontline Combat story "War Machines!"

Synopsis The story describes the efforts of American planes and tanks to dig Koreans out of their cave hill fortifications. The Koreans survive the efforts of the war machines, but they are killed when the infantrymen are sent in to finish the job.
Script Harvey Kurtzman
Pencils John Severin
Inks John Severin
Colors Marie Severin
Letters Ben Oda
Reprinted In Frontline Combat (Gemstone, 1995 series) #5 (August 1996); in Complete Frontline Combat, The (Russ Cochran, 1982 series) #1

7 page Frontline Combat story "Big 'If'!"

Synopsis A soldier who is dying by the roadside after taking a piece of shrapnel in the chest thinks about how his life might have gone differently if he was only standing a little to the left when the explosive had gone off.
Script Harvey Kurtzman
Pencils Harvey Kurtzman
Inks Harvey Kurtzman
Colors Marie Severin
Letters Ben Oda
Reprinted in Comix: A History of Comic Books in America (Bonanza, 1971 series) #nn; in Comix: A History of Comic Books in America (Outerbridge & Dienstfrey, 1971 series) #nn; in Frontline Combat (Gemstone, 1995 series) #5 (August 1996); in Complete Frontline Combat, The (Russ Cochran, 1982 series) #1