Frontline Combat

EC // July-August 1951 - January 1954
Issue count: 15

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Frontline Combat

In addition to contemporary stories about the Korean War and World War II, Two-Fisted Tales and Frontline Combat contained a number of stories taking place in historical settings, including the Civil War, the Revolutionary War and ancient Rome. The comic depicted the horrors of war realistically and in great detail, exposing what Kurtzman saw as the truth about war without glamorizing or idealizing it.

Kurtzman's editing approach to Two Fisted Tales and Frontline Combat was a stark contrast to EC editor Al Feldstein's style. Whereas Feldstein allowed his artists to draw the story in any manner they desired, Kurtzman developed detailed layouts for each story and required his artists to follow them exactly. Kurtzman's writing tended to have a lot less text in them than Feldstein's, which enabled the two war titles to be hand-lettered rather than machine-lettered like the remainder of EC's titles. Kurtzman was also dedicated to making the stories as historically accurate as possible and, along with assistant DeFuccio, put a lot of research into each story. As a result, where Feldstein took generally about a week to complete each issue he edited, Kurtzman took approximately a month.

Eventually, publication was discontinued following a decline in sales attributed to the end of the Korean War.

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Issue #1

Frontline Combat #1
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GD 2.0 VG 4.0 FN 6.0 VF 8.0 NM 9.4 RECORD SALE!
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Issue #2

Frontline Combat #2

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Issue #3

Frontline Combat #3

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Issue #4

Frontline Combat #4

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Frontline Combat #5

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Issue #6

Frontline Combat #6

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Issue #7

Frontline Combat #7

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Issue #8

Frontline Combat #8

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Issue #9

Frontline Combat #9

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Issue #10

Frontline Combat #10

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Issue #11

Frontline Combat #11

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Issue #12

Frontline Combat #12

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Issue #13

Frontline Combat #13

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Issue #14

Frontline Combat #14

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Issue #15

Frontline Combat #15

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