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Issue: Frontline Combat #3
Publication Date: November 1951
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Issues: #3 of 15 Issues (16 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Authorized A.C.M.P. Conforms to the Comics Code
Publisher: FlagEC
Brand: EC An Entertaining ComicView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Tiny Tot Comics, Inc.
On Sale Date: 07/02/1951
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Authorized A.C.M.P. Conforms to the Comics Code
Content Items: 7 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Harvey Kurtzman
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is the publication date reported in U. S. Copyright Office filings.
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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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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
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: Wow! Look at the barrage the artillery is laying down!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Frontline Combat #1 published January 1982
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFrontline Combat #3 published February 1996
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes: in EC Archives: Frontline Combat (Gemstone, 2006 series) Volume 1 (July 2008)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Tin Can!

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): Seaman 2nd Class Eddie Yearling (head of toilet crew, death); Boats (sailor); Zack (sailor); Chinese Communists (villains, some die)
Synopsis: Sailors aboard a U.S. Destroyer are busy shaving while Seaman 2/C Yearling gets on them about dirtying up newly cleaned sinks, when General Quarters is called after the ship hits a mine. During the confusion and lights going out, Yearling gets trapped in a flooded compartment, whose door has been shut and secured to prevent the rest of the ship being flooded, not knowing Yearling is inside.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Frontline Combat #1 published January 1982
as Tin Can! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFrontline Combat #3 published February 1996
as Tin Can! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes: in EC Archives: Frontline Combat (Gemstone, 2006 series) Volume 1 (July 2008)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: This was Jack's first Navy story for EC.
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Desert Fox!

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: non-fiction, war
Feature(s): Frontline Combat
Character(s): Lieutenant General Erwin Rommel (villain, death); the Nazis (villains, some die)
Synopsis: General Rommel makes his way across northern Africa, lacking supplies. In an interesting development, he stops into a British hospital to look around, then moves on to a Polish POW camp, moving his troops, at a tremendous cost, to El Alamein. All the while, Nazis are committing reprisals against prisoners that have dared to kill German soldiers, then the news comes that German soldiers have tried to kill Adolf Hitler. When it is learned that Rommel had a hand in the plot to kill Hitler, he commits suicide.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Frontline Combat #1 published January 1982
as Desert Fox! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #8 [1988] published January 1988
as Ørkenreven! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFrontline Combat #3 published February 1996
as Desert Fox! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes: in EC Archives: Frontline Combat (Gemstone, 2006 series) Volume 1 (July 2008)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Wood signed the story with "Art by Wood" on a shell in the foreground.

Story occurs from November of 1941 to 1944.
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The Bridge

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harvey Kurtzman
Penciller(s): Harvey Kurtzman (masthead)
Inker(s): Harvey Kurtzman (masthead)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Character(s): Corporal Hannibal Meers (death)
Synopsis: Corporal Meers, who considered himself a master of strategy, watched as U.N. soldiers conducted an orderly retreat over a bridge spanning a small Korean river. Musing over wars of the past, he considered this war nothing more than being dull and half-hearted when compared to those in the distant past. He viewed war as man's natural element and a way to curb over-population. As the last of the unit withdrew, he could see the enemy in sight, and opened fired as the bridge blew up, taking his left with it.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Frontline Combat #1 published January 1982
as The Bridge [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes: in EC Archives: Frontline Combat (Gemstone, 2006 series) Volume 1 (July 2008)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Sea Battle!

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harvey Kurtzman
Penciller(s): Harvey Kurtzman (masthead)
Inker(s): Harvey Kurtzman (masthead)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Character(s): Gaston Le Blanc (Captain of the Fleur-De-Lis)
Synopsis: French Captain Le Blanc steered his frigate to the American colonies, accompanying four ammunition ships, in the on-going fight against the British and King George. Sending the supply ships on, Le Blanc decided to engage a British man-of-war single handedly, aiming for the ship's rigging, while dodging the enemy's broadsides quite skillfully. In the end, the British ship had to surrender, even though they were better armed and equipped than the French frigate.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Frontline Combat #1 published January 1982
as Sea Battle! [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes: in EC Archives: Frontline Combat (Gemstone, 2006 series) Volume 1 (July 2008)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Story occurs in September of 1780.
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Prisoner of War!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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
Character(s): Benedict (American soldier, death); North Korean soldiers [Nabe Joe; others un-named] (villains, some die)
Synopsis: American soldiers, plucked from occupation duty in Japan, and sent into the heat of battle in the Korean War, are taken prisoner. One of them, Benedict, brown-noses the enemy and is put in charge of marching his fellow grunts towards Seoul. But Benedict soon learns that even turn-coats pay a price.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Frontline Combat #1 published January 1982
as Prisoner of War! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFrontline Combat #3 published February 1996
as Prisoner of War! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes: in EC Archives: Frontline Combat (Gemstone, 2006 series) Volume 1 (July 2008)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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How They Die!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harvey Kurtzman
Penciller(s): John Severin [as Severin] (signed)
Inker(s): Bill Elder [as Elder] (signed)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Ben Oda
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Feature(s): Frontline Combat
Character(s): Willy; Willy's pal; Attila the Hun (villain, flashback); Napoleoin Bonaparte (villain, flashback); the Germans (villains, flashback)
Synopsis: As U.S. Army jeeps roll across France toward Chalon in WW2, a Frenchman remembers the wars involving the French: back to the times when Attila the Hun raced across toward the same destination and met defeat at the hands of the Romans, then the British in the 1300's, on to the time of Napoleon and his defeat at the hands of the Russians, and then WW1. Now it is the era of WW2, and all the man can think of is all the wasted lives and how much France has had to suffer.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Frontline Combat #1 published January 1982
as How They Die! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFrontline Combat #3 published February 1996
as How They Die! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #10 published August 2014
as How They Die! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes: in EC Archives: Frontline Combat (Gemstone, 2006 series) Volume 1 (July 2008)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Part of the story is told in flashback via the thoughts of an old French man.

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