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Frontline Combat, Issue #5

Publisher: EC

Series Title: Frontline Combat Vol: 1

Issue: #5


Publish Date: March-April 1952
type: cover
Genre: war
Script: Harvey Kurtzman
Pencils: Harvey Kurtzman
Inks: Harvey Kurtzman
Letters: Ben Oda
Colors: Marie Severin
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Jack Davis StoneWall Jackson! Frontline Combat 5 Comic Art
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Jack Davis StoneWall Jackson! Frontline Combat 5

Art Details

Artist: Jack Davis (All)
Media Type: Pen and Ink
Art Type: Interior Page
For Sale Status: NFS
Views: 448
Comments: 1
Added to Site: 12/10/2020

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Issue Breakdown

Type Title Creators Characters Synopsis
cover Pencils: Harvey Kurtzman
Inks: Harvey Kurtzman
Letters: Ben Oda
Colors: Marie Severin
text article The EC Artists of the Issue - Severin & Elder Pencils: ? (photograph)
Inks: ? (photograph)
Letters: Typeset
Johnny Severin; Bill Elder
comic story 442nd Combat Team Pencils: Harvey Kurtzman (layouts); John Severin [as Severin] (signed)
Inks: Bill Elder [as Elder] (signed)
Letters: Ben Oda
Colors: Marie Severin
Japanese-American soldiers [Harry; Sergeant Hayashi; others unnamed] (some die); The Nazis [unnamed Medic officer; others unnamed] (villains, all die) 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!"
comic story Stonewall Jackson! Pencils: Jack Davis (signed)
Inks: Jack Davis (signed)
Letters: Ben Oda
Colors: Marie Severin
unnamed Confederate soldier (narrator); General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson (death); General Robert E. Lee (cameo); Jesse (Confederate soldier) 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 Gedneral's demise.
text story The King's Spy Pencils: Harvey Kurtzman
Inks: Harvey Kurtzman
Letters: typeset
Colors: Marie Severin ?
Colin Dawkins (owner of a grogshop, member of the Sons of Liberty); Ron Aston (villain, British spy) 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.
letters page Script: Harvey Kurtzman
Letters: typeset
comic story War Machines! Pencils: John Severin [as J. Severin] (signed)
Inks: John Severin [as J. Severin] (signed)
Letters: Ben Oda
Colors: Marie Severin
U.S. Army infantrymen; North Korean soldiers (villains, all die) 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.
comic story Big 'If'! Pencils: Harvey Kurtzman
Inks: Harvey Kurtzman
Letters: Ben Oda
Colors: Marie Severin
Paul Maynard (death); Max (flashback) 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.

 

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