Dates
- Cover date
- March-April 1953
- On sale
- November 3, 1952
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Bird-Dogs! · Frontline Combat · 8 pages
The major briefs his troops concerning the plight of the 5th Regiment which is under heavy bombardment which must be neutralized.
- Rough Riders! · Frontline Combat · 7 pages
Mortally wounded and lying on the ground watching the terrible fate awaiting him (being eaten alive by land crabs), a soldier recounts the horrors of the war on the island of Cuba.
- Afghan Border · 1 pages
The editor of the London Daily Press ventures to the Hurrum Hills along the Afghan border to meet with Tubridy in his quarters to ask delicate questions regarding unguarded talk of a deserter in F Company, something that was rare in the colonial service. Tubridy spoke of a Private Belbin and his friend Punda, and a mission Belbin volunteered for: to locate and stop a lone "avenger of blood", who hacked people to death with his Afghan sword. Tubridy later took a company of men out and found the lone avenger dead and only Belbin's binoculars laying next to him.
- Lufbery! · Frontline Combat · 6 pages
Raoul Lufbery recites the stories of his aerial combat missions against the Germans, but he often wondered aloud what he would do if his plane were afire. When a German pilot challenges Lufbery to aerial combat, Lufbery will soon find out.
- Sailor! · Frontline Combat · 7 pages
Several Marines are sitting around talking about how they can't wait to get back to rest camp and brew up a bunch of saki when a 75mm shell explodes near them, and Doc has to go to work on his injured buddies. Wrapping that up, yet another shell hits and Doc is wounded, but continues to give first aid, even to the enemy.
Reprinted in
The Complete Frontline Combat (1982), Frontline Combat (1995), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (2012)