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Issue: Frontline Combat #6
Publication Date: May 1952
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Issues: #6 of 15 Issues (16 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagEC
Brand: EC An Entertaining ComicView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Tiny Tot Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 12/31/1951
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 9 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1952 Periodicals, page 97.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): Harvey Kurtzman (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: war
First Line: Where you goin', boy? Ain't no P.X. back there!
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In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Frontline Combat #2 published January 1982
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFrontline Combat #6 published November 1996
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: According to Marie Severin (1995), “[Harvey] Kurtzman colored his own art, especially on covers....”
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References:

Cassell, Dewey, with Aaron Sultan. 2012. “The Artists of EC Comics” (reprinting Severin 1995). In Marie Severin: The Mirthful Mistress of Comics. 46–47. Raleigh: TwoMorrows Publishing.

Severin, Marie (John Province, transcriber [uncredited]). 1995. “Mostly About Color.” In CFA-APA 36, January.
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Harvey Kurtzman

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photo)
Inker(s): ? (photo)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: biography
Feature(s): The EC "Artist of the Issue"
Character(s): Harvey Kurtzman
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Biography of Kurtzman, with photo, found on the inside front cover.
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A Platoon!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Character(s): unnamed platoon captain; unnamed lieutenant (death); unnamed platoon sergeant (death); unnamed squad leaders; Corporal Ed Daley; Peewee; North Korean soldiers (villains, many die)
Synopsis: Readers are invited to join in with a platoon during the Korean War. Peewee can't understand why Ed doesn't want his sergeant's rating. But Ed tells him why: He doesn't want the responsibilities associated with the rank and the fact that most sergeants in Korea are getting killed.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Frontline Combat #2 published January 1982
as A Platoon! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFrontline Combat #6 published November 1996
as A Platoon! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #10 published August 2014
as A Platoon! [Story on Interior Page(s)]Reprinted in black and white.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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War of 1812!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: historical, non-fiction, war
Character(s): American soldiers (many die); British soldiers (villains); Ke-wi-ex-kim (villain, death); Tecumsah (villain, Indian Chief, death); the Indians (villains, many die)
Synopsis: Indian Ki-wi-ex-kim laments on the fact that years ago, the Delawares and the Mohicans welcomed the white man as brothers to this new land, but now the whites now seem to be interested only in taking everything that the red man has away from them. Under the leadership of the great Tecumsah, the Indian decides to fight back, and all seems to go well until Tecumsah falls in battle.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Frontline Combat #2 published January 1982
as War of 1812! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFrontline Combat #6 published November 1996
as War of 1812! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Fate

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Character(s): espionage team [Norman Williams (villain, death); David Bentley; other member unnamed]
Synopsis: A three-man team of espionage agents flew from England towards Berlin, the heart of Germany, seeking an isolated German farmhouse where members of the underground were to be found. They bailed out, with only Williams drifting eastward away from the other two. Seeking him, they finally located him, swinging limply from a tree. His chute had fouled in the limbs of a tree, breaking his neck. When the others prepared to bury him, they discovered papers on his body, indicating that he was an elite operative of the German Secret Services, under the command of S.S. Lt. Colonel Otto Skorzeny!
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In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Frontline Combat #2 published January 1982
as Fate [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFrontline Combat #6 published November 1996
as Fate [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Front Lines
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In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Frontline Combat #2 published January 1982
as [untitled] [Letters Page on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.6
Disclose Notes: Letters from Pfc. Ray Pantalena, Ronald Pering, Vic Fera, Jerry Morgan, Dan Walleck, J. Jonborgzinner, Martin L. Burns, John Plaks, John Brown, and Roger Curtis.
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[untitled]

Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Frontline Combat #2 published January 1982
as [untitled] [Statement of Ownership on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.4
Disclose Notes: This was replaced by a Harvey Kurtzman illustration in EC Archives: Frontline Combat (Gemstone, 2008 series) #1.
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Ace!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Character(s): Lieutenant Harry Chesterfield (American pilot, death); Lieutenant Tram (American pilot); Lieutenant Mambro (American pilot); The Germans (villains, some die)
Synopsis: Confident Lt. Chesterfield, having just downed his 3rd Pfalz of the month, tells his comrades in arms that he is going after a Rumpler next. He succeeds and a day later goes up against his 5th and 6th planes. If he bags one of them, he becomes an ace! What Harry doesn't realize is that the Germans have set a trap for him, a fatal trap.
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In Content Item: FlagEC Portfolio #3 published January 1973
as Ace! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Frontline Combat #2 published January 1982
as Ace! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFrontline Combat #6 published November 1996
as Ace! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #10 published August 2014
as Ace! [Story on Interior Page(s)]Reprinted in black and white.
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Bellyrobber!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Character(s): Sergeant "Bellyrobber" Boon; U.S. soldiers [Mize; rest unnamed (some die)]; Shnooker (Korean orphan boy, death); North Koreans (villains, many die)
Synopsis: The story of a tough Army cook, Bellyrobber Boon, who finds a young Korean orphan boy in his tent, and who gradually bonds with the child, whom he names Shnooker, changing his whole disposition. Then, one day, a band of North Korean soldiers sneak into the mess tent and kill all of Boon's cooks, as well as little Shnooker for which Boon kills all of the enemy soldiers. But that changes Boon's whole demeanor and he becomes the hard-boiled Sarge the soldiers once knew.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Complete Frontline Combat #2 published January 1982
as Bellyrobber! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFrontline Combat #6 published November 1996
as Bellyrobber! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7

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