Frontline Combat #4 Gaines File Pedigree 7/10 (EC, 1952) CGC NM/MT 9.8 Off-white to white pages....

Auction amount: $4,320.00

Sold: Nov 6, 2025

Frontline Combat #4 Values

Publisher: EC, 1952

About Frontline Combat #4

Harvey Kurtzman cover and art. Contains "Airburst", the story Kurtzman rated as his favorite. Also features Wally Wood and Jack Davis art. Used in Seduction of the Innocent.

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COVER DETAILS

Pencils: Harvey Kurtzman

Inks: Harvey Kurtzman

Colors: Marie Severin

Letters: Ben Oda

STORY DETAILS

(6 Stories)

Title: Combat Medic!

Characters: unnamed Captain (death); unnamed British soldier (death); Higgens (medic); Indian soldiers; ROK soliers; Chinese Communists (villains, many die)

Synopsis: As medics tend to a wounded soldier, the Captain tells everybody that the division is pulling out, but the medics want to stay where they are. As they continue to treat the wounded man, the four soldiers bugging out are shot and killed by a Chinese machine gun, but the medics make it to an ROK Army unit on foot and save the British soldier's life......or so they thought.

Pages: 8.000

Script: Harvey Kurtzman

Pencils: Jack Davis (signed)

Inks: Jack Davis (signed)

Letters: Ben Oda

Title: The Tyrant

Characters: Mark Edelblut; Count Karl Edelblut; Baron Manfred Von Wolfe; Baron's men

Pages: 1.000

Script: Jerry De Fuccio

Pencils: Harvey Kurtzman

Inks: Harvey Kurtzman

Letters: typeset

Notes: Text story covers two pages over the center spread, taking up a half page each, bookended by EC promos.

Title: Air Burst!

Characters: Chinese soldiers [Lee (death); Tai (death); Chun (death); "Big Feet" (death); others unnamed] (villains, many die)

Synopsis: The Americans have the Chinese on the run, but two of the enemy's remaining mortar crew have a surprise for the advancing Americans: a booby trap. Unfortunately, the wrong people walk into that trap.

Pages: 6.000

Script: Harvey Kurtzman

Pencils: Harvey Kurtzman

Inks: Harvey Kurtzman

Letters: Ben Oda

Reprints: EC Portfolio (Russ Cochran, 1971 series) #2 (1972)

Title: Bomb Run!

Characters: un-named pilot (death); Sergeant Johnny Breslin (radioman, death); Tech Sergeant Arthur Fleischer (engineer-gunner, death); Jerry De Fuccio (tail gunner, death); 1st Lieutenant Colin Campbell (co-pilot and bombardier, death); The Japanese (villains, some die)

Synopsis: An American bomber, "The Odyssey", has made a successful bombing run over a Filipino island when Japanese Zeros fill the sky and attack. While several Zeros are shot down, the bomber suffers a hit left engine, and they radio for help. They receive a message with landing instructions not knowing the message is a fake from a Japanese radio station with devastating results!

Pages: 7.000

Script: Harvey Kurtzman

Pencils: John Severin [as Severin] (signed)

Inks: Bill Elder [as Elder] (signed)

Letters: Ben Oda

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CGC Census Report*

Grade	NG	PG	CVR	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	1	0	4	6	2	3	5	7	2	8	2	3	4	5	0	0	3	3	5	0	0	63
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	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	0	0	0
CGCxJSA	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	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	0	0	0
Total	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	4	6	2	3	5	7	2	8	2	3	4	5	0	0	3	3	5	0	0	63

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