Dates
- Cover date
- November-December 1952
- On sale
- June 26, 1952
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #9 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Original editionSource ↗
- Orange "Civil War" VariantThis edition’s page
Creators
Stories
- Abe Lincoln! · 8 pages
A black man is talking with his dog in his cabin, telling the mongrel the full story of a man named Abraham Lincoln, from childhood until the outbreak of the Civil War, and asking the Lord to not let anything happen to Lincoln.
- First Shot! · 7 pages
As Union soldiers sleep in Fort Sumter, shells suddenly bombard the fort, and the battle that all dreaded has begun. Fortunately, there are no casualties, except one.
- Speech · 1 pages
- Choose Sides! · 6 pages
With states having seceded from the Union, it is now time for people to decide which side they favor: North or South. The St. Louis militia is housed at Camp Jackson, but Union troops under General Sigel attempt to force them out. That is not to the liking of an elderly man everyone calls Grandpa, and he decides to shoot one of the Yanks down, and now the stage has been set for war.
- Bull Run! · 7 pages
As Union forces go marching confidently out of Washington D.C., each soldier reminds himself that he has enlisted only for 3 months, and the war should be over within 60 days -- or so they think. The rebels have other ideas. Three Union soldiers become, in their minds, the Three Musketeers and vow to see the battle out together. Reality sets in once one of them falls; this will be a long war.
Reprinted in
The Complete Frontline Combat (1982), EC Classics (1985), Frontline Combat (1995), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (2012)