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Issue: Frontline Combat #9
Publication Date: November 1952
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Issues: #9 of 15 Issues (16 Printings)
Title:
Variant: Standard Cover, Yellow "Civil War"
Rating:
Publisher: FlagEC
Brand: EC An Entertaining ComicView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher:
On Sale Date: 06/26/1952
Volume:
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 8 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Harvey Kurtzman
Disclose Notes: Special All Civil War issue.
On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1952 Periodicals, page 97.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Disclose Reprinted In19
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): Harvey Kurtzman ?
Penciller(s): Harvey Kurtzman
Inker(s): Harvey Kurtzman
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Ben Oda
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): Frontline Combat
First Line: Listen! Is it raining?
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFrontline Combat #9 published January 1953
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Frontline Combat #2 published January 1982
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFrontline Combat #9 published August 1997
as Special Issue: Civil War! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes: in EC Archives: Frontline Combat (Dark Horse, 2013 series) Volume 2 (1st edition, October 2019)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Introduction

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harvey Kurtzman
Penciller(s): John Severin [as J. Powers Severin] (signed)
Inker(s): John Severin [as J. Powers Severin] (signed)
Letterer(s): John Severin
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Character(s): President Jefferson Davis (inset); President Abraham Lincoln (inset); General Robert E. Lee (inset); General Ulysses S. Grant (inset)
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Frontline Combat #2 published January 1982
as Introduction [Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFrontline Combat #9 published August 1997
as [untitled] [Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #10 published August 2014
as Introduction [Text Article on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes: in EC Archives: Frontline Combat (Dark Horse, 2013 series) Volume 2 (1st edition, October 2019)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Illustrated frontispiece found on the inside front cover.

A note from the Editors of Frontline Combat, giving details behind reader request for this special issue.
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Abe Lincoln!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harvey Kurtzman
Penciller(s): Jack Davis (signed)
Inker(s): Jack Davis (signed)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Ben Oda
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): Frontline Combat
Character(s): unnamed black man (narrator); Abraham Lincoln; Lincoln's grandfather (death); Tom Lincoln (Abraham Lincoln's father); Jack Armstrong (bully); Clary's Grove Boys; Indians (villains, some die)
Synopsis: A black man is talking with his dog in his cabin, telling the mongrel the full story of a man named Abraham Lincoln, from childhood until the outbreak of the Civil War, and asking the Lord to not let anything happen to Lincoln.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Frontline Combat #2 published January 1982
as Abe Lincoln! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFrontline Combat #9 published August 1997
as Abe Lincoln! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes: in EC Archives: Frontline Combat (Dark Horse, 2013 series) Volume 2 (1st edition, October 2019)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Much of the story is told in flashback.
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First Shot!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harvey Kurtzman
Penciller(s): John Severin
Inker(s): Bill Elder
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Ben Oda
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): Frontline Combat
Character(s): Major Robert Anderson (Ft. Sumter commander); Union soldiers (one dies); Confederate soldiers
Synopsis: As Union soldiers sleep in Fort Sumter, shells suddenly bombard the fort, and the battle that all dreaded has begun. Fortunately, there are no casualties, except one.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Frontline Combat #2 published January 1982
as First Shot! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFrontline Combat #9 published August 1997
as First Shot! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #10 published August 2014
as First Shot! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes: in EC Archives: Frontline Combat (Dark Horse, 2013 series) Volume 2 (1st edition, October 2019)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Speech

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Abraham Lincoln
Penciller(s): Harvey Kurtzman
Inker(s): Harvey Kurtzman
Colorist(s): Marie Severin ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Frontline Combat #2 published January 1982
as Speech [Text Article on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFrontline Combat #9 published August 1997
as Speech [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes: in EC Archives: Frontline Combat (Dark Horse, 2013 series) Volume 2 (1st edition, October 2019)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Extracts from Abraham Lincoln's first Inaugural address.
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (masthead illustration)
Inker(s): ? (masthead illustration)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Front Lines
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Frontline Combat #2 published January 1982
as [untitled] [Letters Page on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes: in EC Archives: Frontline Combat (Dark Horse, 2013 series) Volume 2 (1st edition, October 2019)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Contains a note from Mad Managing Editor, William M. Gaines, announcing the introduction of MAD, a new publication, and having Harvey Kurtzman as writer and editor.
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Choose Sides!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harvey Kurtzman
Penciller(s): Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)
Inker(s): Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Ben Oda
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): Frontline Combat
Character(s): Union General Sigel (death); Grandpa (death)
Synopsis: With states having seceded from the Union, it is now time for people to decide which side they favor: North or South. The St. Louis militia is housed at Camp Jackson, but Union troops under General Sigel attempt to force them out. That is not to the liking of an elderly man everyone calls Grandpa, and he decides to shoot one of the Yanks down, and now the stage has been set for war.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Frontline Combat #2 published January 1982
as Choose Sides! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFrontline Combat #9 published August 1997
as Choose Sides! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes: in EC Archives: Frontline Combat (Dark Horse, 2013 series) Volume 2 (1st edition, October 2019)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Bull Run!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harvey Kurtzman
Penciller(s): John Severin [as J. Severin] (signed)
Inker(s): John Severin [as J. Severin] (signed)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Ben Oda
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): Frontline Combat
Character(s): Union captain (death); three Union soldiers [aka the Three Musketeers] (one dies);
Synopsis: As Union forces go marching confidently out of Washington D.C., each soldier reminds himself that he has enlisted only for 3 months, and the war should be over within 60 days -- or so they think. The rebels have other ideas. Three Union soldiers become, in their minds, the Three Musketeers and vow to see the battle out together. Reality sets in once one of them falls; this will be a long war.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Frontline Combat #2 published January 1982
as Bull Run! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFrontline Combat #9 published August 1997
as Bull Run! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #10 published August 2014
as Bull Run! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes: in EC Archives: Frontline Combat (Dark Horse, 2013 series) Volume 2 (1st edition, October 2019)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7

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