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[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Credits

Colorist(s): Harvey Kurtzman (see notes)

Subject Matter

Genres: historical, war

First Line: Listen! Is it raining?

Reprinting

Reprint Notes: in EC Archives: Frontline Combat (Dark Horse, 2013 series) Volume 2 (1st edition, October 2019)

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: According to Marie Severin (1995), “[Harvey] Kurtzman colored his own art, especially on covers....”
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References:

Cassell, Dewey, with Aaron Sultan. 2012. “The Artists of EC Comics” (reprinting Severin 1995). In Marie Severin: The Mirthful Mistress of Comics. 46–47. Raleigh: TwoMorrows Publishing.

Severin, Marie (John Province, transcriber [uncredited]). 1995. “Mostly About Color.” In CFA-APA 36, January.

Introduction

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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

Reprint Notes: in EC Archives: Frontline Combat (Dark Horse, 2013 series) Volume 2 (1st edition, October 2019)

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

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.

Abe Lincoln!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: war

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

Reprint Notes: in EC Archives: Frontline Combat (Dark Horse, 2013 series) Volume 2 (1st edition, October 2019)

Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

Notes: Much of the story is told in flashback.

First Shot!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: historical, war

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

Reprint Notes: in EC Archives: Frontline Combat (Dark Horse, 2013 series) Volume 2 (1st edition, October 2019)

Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Speech

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Abraham Lincoln

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: non-fiction

Reprinting

Reprint Notes: in EC Archives: Frontline Combat (Dark Horse, 2013 series) Volume 2 (1st edition, October 2019)

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Extracts from Abraham Lincoln's first Inaugural address.

[untitled]

Letters Page on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ? (masthead illustration)

Inker(s): ? (masthead illustration)

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Front Lines

Reprinting

Reprint Notes: in EC Archives: Frontline Combat (Dark Horse, 2013 series) Volume 2 (1st edition, October 2019)

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

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.

Choose Sides!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: war

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

Reprint Notes: in EC Archives: Frontline Combat (Dark Horse, 2013 series) Volume 2 (1st edition, October 2019)

Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Bull Run!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: historical, war

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

Reprint Notes: in EC Archives: Frontline Combat (Dark Horse, 2013 series) Volume 2 (1st edition, October 2019)

Miscellaneous

Pages: 7