Issue | #5 |
Published | March-April 1952 |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Harvey Kurtzman |
Genre | war |
Script | Harvey Kurtzman |
Pencils | Harvey Kurtzman |
Inks | Harvey Kurtzman |
Colors | Marie Severin |
Letters | Ben Oda |
Reprinted | in Frontline Combat (Gemstone, 1995 series) #5 (August 1996); in Complete Frontline Combat, The (Russ Cochran, 1982 series) #1 |
Genre | bio |
Letters | Typeset |
Notes | Biographies of Severin and Elder, with photo. |
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!" |
Script | Harvey Kurtzman |
Pencils | John Severin |
Inks | Bill Elder |
Colors | Marie Severin |
Letters | Ben Oda |
Reprinted | In Frontline Combat (Gemstone, 1995 series) #5 (August 1996); in Complete Frontline Combat, The (Russ Cochran, 1982 series) #1 |
Synopsis | A story about the death of Stonewall Jackson, told by the confederate soldier who accidentally shot him during nighttime battle conditions. |
Script | Harvey Kurtzman |
Pencils | Jack Davis |
Inks | Jack Davis |
Colors | Marie Severin |
Letters | Ben Oda |
Reprinted | In Frontline Combat (Gemstone, 1995 series) #5 (August 1996); in Complete Frontline Combat, The (Russ Cochran, 1982 series) #1 |
Script | Harvey Kurtzman |
Pencils | Harvey Kurtzman |
Inks | Harvey Kurtzman |
Reprinted | in Complete Frontline Combat, The (Russ Cochran, 1982 series) #1 |
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. |
Script | Harvey Kurtzman |
Pencils | John Severin |
Inks | John Severin |
Colors | Marie Severin |
Letters | Ben Oda |
Reprinted | In Frontline Combat (Gemstone, 1995 series) #5 (August 1996); in Complete Frontline Combat, The (Russ Cochran, 1982 series) #1 |
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. |
Script | Harvey Kurtzman |
Pencils | Harvey Kurtzman |
Inks | Harvey Kurtzman |
Colors | Marie Severin |
Letters | Ben Oda |
Reprinted | in Comix: A History of Comic Books in America (Bonanza, 1971 series) #nn; in Comix: A History of Comic Books in America (Outerbridge & Dienstfrey, 1971 series) #nn; in Frontline Combat (Gemstone, 1995 series) #5 (August 1996); in Complete Frontline Combat, The (Russ Cochran, 1982 series) #1 |