Dates
- Cover date
- March-April 1952
- On sale
- October 31, 1951
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The EC Artists of the Issue - Severin & Elder · 1 pages
- 442nd Combat Team · 8 pages
A story about the experience of a combat unit composed of Japanese-Americans during the war. The enemy attempts to get them to come over to their side, but they attack and win, and when questioned, they give a thumbs up and say "The enemy forgot that we're Americans!"
- Stonewall Jackson! · 7 pages
The Confederate soldier who accidentally shot General Stonewall Jackson during nighttime battle conditions relates the story of Jackson and the brigade he was a part of, and the conditions that led to the General's demise.
- The King's Spy · 1 pages
As Aston drank his grog, the owner, secretly a militant member of the Sons of Liberty, bent over the bar to impart some secret information to him, all in the midst of protesting the hated Stamp Act issued by the British Parliament. The info given to Aston revealed the plan to board British ships the next evening to dump all the tea overboard, and Aston assured Dawkins he would be there. However, Dawkins did not know that Aston was a British spy who had cleverly destroyed all evidence of his true birth. But before Aston could impart the tea party plans, he was keelhauled aboard a British ship.
- War Machines! · 6 pages
The story describes the efforts of American planes and tanks to dig Koreans out of their cave hill fortifications. The Koreans survive the efforts of the war machines, but they are killed when the infantrymen are sent in to finish the job.
- Big 'If'! · 7 pages
A soldier who is dying by the roadside after taking a piece of shrapnel in the chest thinks about how his life might have gone differently if he was only standing a little to the left when the explosive had gone off.
Reprinted in
The Complete Frontline Combat (1982), Frontline Combat (1995), EC Archives: Frontline Combat (2008), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (2012), Comix: A History of Comic Books in America (1971), Comix: A History of Comic Books in America (1971), From Aargh! to Zap! Harvey Kurtzman’s Visual History of the Comics (1991)