Dates
- Cover date
- May-June 1952
- On sale
- December 31, 1951
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Harvey Kurtzman · The EC "Artist of the Issue" · 1 pages
- A Platoon! · 8 pages
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.
- War of 1812! · 7 pages
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.
- Fate · 1 pages
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!
- Ace! · 6 pages
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.
- Bellyrobber! · 7 pages
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.
Reprinted in
The Complete Frontline Combat (1982), Frontline Combat (1995), EC Archives: Frontline Combat (2008), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (2012), EC Portfolio (1971)