Genre:biography

Reprints (3)

• in Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad (EC, 1997 series) #7 (Fall 1999)
• in EC Archives: Frontline Combat (Gemstone, 2008 series) #1 (2008)
• in The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) #18 - The Million Year Picnic and Other Stories (January 2017)

Biographies of Severin and Elder, with photo.

Genre:war

• Keywords:Vosges Mountains

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!"

Reprints (4)

• in The Complete Frontline Combat (Russ Cochran, 1982 series) #1 (1982)
• in Frontline Combat (Gemstone, 1995 series) #5 (August 1996)
• in EC Archives: Frontline Combat (Gemstone, 2008 series) #1 (2008)
• in The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) #10 - Bomb Run and Other Stories (August 2014) [page 1, panel 1], #10 - Bomb Run and Other Stories (August 2014) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Kurtzman layout credit added by Craig Delich 2013-8-1, per Michael Gilbert in Alter Ego #119 (August 2013).

The 442nd Regimental Combat Team won a total of 3,915 awards, 10 unit citations and 3600 Purple Hearts while fighting in Europe in WW2.

Genre:war

• Keywords:American Civil War; Chancellorsville; Perry Carbine

Synopsis:

The Confederate soldier who accidentally shot General Stonewall Jackson during nighttime battle conditions relates the story of Jackson and the brigade he was a part of, and the conditions that led to the General's demise.

Reprints (4)

• in The Complete Frontline Combat (Russ Cochran, 1982 series) #1 (1982)
• in Frontline Combat (Gemstone, 1995 series) #5 (August 1996)
• in EC Archives: Frontline Combat (Gemstone, 2008 series) #1 (2008)
• in The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) #22 - Death Stand and Other Stories (August 2018) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Much of the story is told in flashback.

Genre:war

• Keywords:American Revolution; Colin Dawkins Grogshop; H.M.S London Queen (British ship)

Synopsis:

As Aston drank his grog, the owner, secretly a militant member of the Sons of Liberty, bent over the bar to impart some secret information to him, all in the midst of protesting the hated Stamp Act issued by the British Parliament. The info given to Aston revealed the plan to board British ships the next evening to dump all the tea overboard, and Aston assured Dawkins he would be there. However, Dawkins did not know that Aston was a British spy who had cleverly destroyed all evidence of his true birth. But before Aston could impart the tea party plans, he was keelhauled aboard a British ship.

Reprints (2)

• in The Complete Frontline Combat (Russ Cochran, 1982 series) #1 (1982)
• in EC Archives: Frontline Combat (Gemstone, 2008 series) #1 (2008)

Story occurs on December 15, 1773.

Reprints (2)

• in The Complete Frontline Combat (Russ Cochran, 1982 series) #1 (1982)
• in EC Archives: Frontline Combat (Gemstone, 2008 series) #1 (2008)

Letter from (Miss) Margaret M. Credie (who does not like Frontline Combat at all) with extensive point by point rebuttal by Kurtzman.

Genre:war

• Keywords:Korean War

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.

Reprints (4)

• in The Complete Frontline Combat (Russ Cochran, 1982 series) #1 (1982)
• in Frontline Combat (Gemstone, 1995 series) #5 (August 1996)
• in EC Archives: Frontline Combat (Gemstone, 2008 series) #1 (2008)
• in The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) #10 - Bomb Run and Other Stories (August 2014) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Genre:war

• Keywords:devil posts; Korean War

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.

Reprints (8)

• in Comix: A History of Comic Books in America (Bonanza, 1971 series) (1971)
• in Comix: A History of Comic Books in America (Outerbridge & Dienstfrey, 1971 series) (1971)
• in The Complete Frontline Combat (Russ Cochran, 1982 series) #1 (1982)
• in Iskalde Grøss (Semic, 1982 series) #8 [1988] (uke 48 1988)
• in From Aargh! to Zap! Harvey Kurtzman’s Visual History of the Comics (Simon and Schuster, 1991 series) (1991) [Pages reduced in size.]
• in Frontline Combat (Gemstone, 1995 series) #5 (August 1996)
• in EC Archives: Frontline Combat (Gemstone, 2008 series) #1 (2008)
• in The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) #1 - Corpse on the Imjin and Other Stories (August 2012) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Some of the story is told in flashback.

Marie Severin’s statement that “[Harvey] Kurtzman colored his own art, especially on covers...” (see Indexer Notes for this issue’s cover) suggests that Kurtzman colored stories that he drew, albeit perhaps less consistently than he colored his cover art.