Warfront #36 (1965), story page 2 by Stein

"Ghost Story," writer unknown, Harvey, cover date October 1965. Page 5 of comic.

"It started there in that beleaguered village square in China-The saga of the Chu-lins...Ghost Story"

Plot: Chinese soldiers of the Fourth Yunnan Army demonstrate ingenuity stealing ammunition and ambushing their Japanese pursuers during World War II.

This story is Stein's only credited work in Harvey's Warfront book, although he drew a story or two in most Atlas war titles -- Battle, Battleground, Marines in Action, Marines at War, Navy Action, and Navy Combat. (GCD)

Marvin Stein pencilled or inked probably every genre of comics in the '50s. He worked in the Simon & Kirby Studio on myriad titles — Black Magic, Headline, Justice Traps the Guilty, Young Love and Young Romance — while freelancing for several other publishers besides Atlas such as Feature Comics, Prize Comics, and Ziff Davis. (Wikipedia).

Al Williamson recalled that "Marvin was a good friend; I met him back in 1945 when he was going to the Saturday morning sketch class at Hogarth's. He wound up working with Jack Kirby. He was a great fan of Jack's work. I remember going up to their studio when they did Prize Comics, to see Marvin." (Interview with Al Williamson by John Morrow, Jack Kirby Collector #15, April 1997)

He left comics in 1958 for advertising and broadcast news graphics, although he later drew a newspaper strip (1965-69) and illustrated children's books. (Wikipedia)

Historical note: The Fourth Yunnan Army is almost certainly the Communist New Fourth Army. If so, a US war comic is surprisingly painting Chinese Communists in a positive light in the midst of the Cold War. This unit fought US-supported Nationalist forces, despite an ostensible united front to resist the Japanese invasion of 1937. Civil war resumed with Tokyo's defeat and in 1949 the Nationalists, facing defeat, fled to Formosa (Taiwan). Critics charged that Washington had "lost China."

From Wikipedia - New Fourth Army:
"In 1939 the Japanese Army stopped attacking the Nationalist forces on a large scale. The New Fourth Army was restricted to the south of the Yangtze River. In order to establish a new base area the New Fourth Army sent an advance team to Northern Jiangsu and clashed with guerrillas of the Nationalist forces there. In the battle of Huangqiao the New Fourth Army destroyed the 89th Army and the 33rd division of the Nationalist forces...

In January 1941, in what became known as the New Fourth Army incident the Nationalist forces surrounded and destroyed the headquarters of the New Fourth Army in retaliation, losing the New Fourth Army about 8,000 men. The commander of the New Fourth Army was also caught. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) made a strong protest and announced the rebuilding (of) the New Fourth Army in northern Jiangsu. At this time the New Fourth Army had already had seven divisions and 90,000 soldiers. Between 1941 and 1943, the New Fourth Army fought mainly with the Japanese... and lost a portion of the Army's base areas...

1944-45: Due to a lack of troops the Japanese ceased actively attacking the New Fourth Army. Several fierce battles erupted again between the New Fourth Army and the Nationalist forces..."