Dates
- Cover date
- October 1953
- On sale
- June 8, 1953
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Albatross! · Frontline Combat · 8 pages
Danklef is of the opinion that the Grumman SA-16 (Albatross) is a plane, not a boat, and while preparing for a bombing run, the radio blares the news of another plane being shot down. They head out to rescue the pilot and, after saving the man, the seaplane encounters very rough waters. By quick thing, the plane rides out the rough waves until measures are taken to get the craft out of the water and into the air.
- Bonhomme Richard! · Frontline Combat · 7 pages
The battle between the Seapis and Bonhomme Richard in 1779 is recounted by a dead American sailor.....a battle won by the Americans, but resulting in 90% casualties on both sides.
- Abduction · 1 pages
- Immelman! · Frontline Combat · 6 pages
Max Immelman, creator of the evasive air tactic called "The Immelman Turn", wins victory after victory, amassing award after award until one day, due to his aircraft's machine guns not working properly, shoots himself down!
- Whupped! · Frontline Combat · 7 pages
A young soldier runs up to the Sergeant of the Army of the Mississippi, real anxious like to join up because his Ma said he could. The next day they engaged the Union Army is a bloodbath and the young boy, somewhat eager to fight and whip those blue bellies, in the end gets a bayonet in the stomach and passes away in the arms of the Sergeant.
Reprinted in
The Complete Frontline Combat (1982), Frontline Combat (1995), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (2012)