Frontline Combat #3 Gaines File pedigree 2/9 (EC, 1951) CGC NM/MT 9.8 White pages....

Auction amount: $2,629.00

Sold: Feb 27, 2010

Frontline Combat #3 Values

Publisher: EC, 1951

About Frontline Combat #3

Harvey Kurtzman cover and art. Jack Davis, Wally Wood, John Severin, and Bill Elder art.

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COVER DETAILS

Pencils: Harvey Kurtzman

Inks: Harvey Kurtzman

Colors: Marie Severin

Letters: Ben Oda

STORY DETAILS

(6 Stories)

Title: Tin Can!

Characters: Seaman 2nd Class Eddie Yearling (head of toilet crew, death); Boats (sailor); Zack (sailor); Chinese Communists (villains, some die)

Synopsis: Sailors aboard a U.S. Destroyer are busy shaving while Seaman 2/C Yearling gets on them about dirtying up newly cleaned sinks, when General Quarters is called after the ship hits a mine. During the confusion and lights going out, Yearling gets trapped in a flooded compartment, whose door has been shut and secured to prevent the rest of the ship being flooded, not knowing Yearling is inside.

Pages: 8.000

Script: Harvey Kurtzman

Pencils: Jack Davis (signed)

Inks: Jack Davis (signed)

Letters: Ben Oda

Notes: This was Jack's first Navy story for EC.

Title: Prisoner of War!

Characters: Benedict (American soldier, death); North Korean soldiers [Nabe Joe; others un-named] (villains, some die)

Synopsis: American soldiers, plucked from occupation duty in Japan, and sent into the heat of battle in the Korean War, are taken prisoner. One of them, Benedict, brown-noses the enemy and is put in charge of marching his fellow grunts towards Seoul. But Benedict soon learns that even turn-coats pay a price.

Pages: 6.000

Script: Harvey Kurtzman

Pencils: Harvey Kurtzman

Inks: Harvey Kurtzman

Letters: Ben Oda

Title: How They Die!

Characters: Willy; Willy's pal; Attila the Hun (villain, flashback); Napoleoin Bonaparte (villain, flashback); the Germans (villains, flashback)

Synopsis: As U.S. Army jeeps roll across France toward Chalon in WW2, a Frenchman remembers the wars involving the French: back to the times when Attila the Hun raced across toward the same destination and met defeat at the hands of the Romans, then the British in the 1300's, on to the time of Napoleon and his defeat at the hands of the Russians, and then WW1. Now it is the era of WW2, and all the man can think of is all the wasted lives and how much France has had to suffer.

Pages: 7.000

Script: Harvey Kurtzman

Pencils: John Severin [as Severin] (signed)

Inks: Bill Elder [as Elder] (signed)

Letters: Ben Oda

Notes: Part of the story is told in flashback via the thoughts of an old French man.

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CGC Census Report*

Grade	0.5	1.0	1.5	1.8	2.0	2.5	3.0	3.5	4.0	4.5	5.0	5.5	6.0	6.5	7.0	7.5	8.0	8.5	9.0	9.2	9.4	9.6	9.8	9.9	10.0	Total
Universal	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	3	2	6	0	3	1	1	1	1	0	1	0	1	7	1	0	0	31
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Restored	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	3	2	6	0	3	1	1	1	1	0	1	0	1	7	1	0	0	31

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