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Frontline Combat#3
Cover: Harvey Kurtzman

Frontline Combat #3

Nov 1951 · EC · 0.10 USD
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In "Tin Can!", Harvey Kurtzman and Wally Wood deliver a stark, gripping wartime tale set during the North African campaign, where General Rommel's desperate march toward El Alamein unfolds amid dwindling supplies and mounting tension. As Rommel navigates a war-torn landscape marked by brutal reprisals and shifting loyalties, the weight of his choices begins to unravel—leading to a moment of irreversible consequence. The story, illustrated with sharp precision by Wally Wood and lettered by Ben Oda, features a cover by Harvey Kurtzman that captures the grim intensity of the moment.

Contains 4 stories
Tin Can!
8 pp · War
Seaman 2nd Class Eddie Yearling (head of toilet crew, death)Boats (sailor)Zack (sailor)Chinese Communists (villains, some die)

In the tense, close quarters of a U.S. destroyer in 1951, Seaman 2/C Yearling finds himself at odds with his shipmates over a messy sink—just before General Quarters sounds and a mine strike sends the ship into chaos. As lights flicker and the crew scrambles, Yearling is sealed inside a flooded compartment, unaware the door has been shut to save the rest of the ship.

Desert Fox!
7 pp · Non-Fiction, War
Lieutenant General Erwin Rommel (villain, death)the Nazis (villains, some die)

In the harsh sands of North Africa, General Rommel leads his dwindling forces through a desperate campaign, navigating supply shortages and shifting fronts. His journey takes him from a British hospital to a Polish POW camp, where the weight of war and the growing tension within the Nazi ranks begin to take their toll. As reprisals escalate and news of a failed assassination attempt on Hitler reaches him, the gravity of his choices becomes impossible to ignore.

Prisoner of War!
6 pp · War
Benedict (American soldier, death)North Korean soldiers [Nabe Joeothers un-named] (villains, some die)

In the heat of the Korean War, American soldiers fresh from occupation duty in Japan are captured and forced on a brutal march toward Seoul. Among them, Benedict, eager to survive, betrays his comrades to gain favor with the enemy—only to discover that loyalty, even when sold, comes with a steep cost.

How They Die!
7 pp · War
WillyWilly's palAttila the Hun (villain, flashback)Napoleoin Bonaparte (villain, flashback)the Germans (villains, flashback)

ComicBooks.com Value

Our Model is In Beta
Raw (Good) $50
CGC 9.8 · 1 in census $3,229
CGC 9.6 · 7 in census $1,542
CGC 9.4 · 1 in census $986*
CGC 9.2 none in existence
CGC 9.0 · 1 in census $439*
CGC 8.5 none in existence
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CGC 8.0 · 1 in census $241*
CGC 7.5 · 1 in census $193*
CGC 7.0 · 2 in census $160*
CGC 6.5 · 2 in census $136
CGC 6.0 · 5 in census $116*
CGC 5.5 none in existence
CGC 5.0 · 6 in census $114
CGC 4.5 · 2 in census $79*
CGC 4.0 · 3 in census $69*
CGC 3.5 · 3 in census $61
* estimate — limited direct-sales data at this grade
Our model’s value — refined as new sales data arrives · CGC census counts shown where available

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Full credits

artist, inker Wally Wood
letterer Ben Oda
cover pencils, inks Harvey Kurtzman

Reprints

Reprinted in The Complete Frontline Combat #1 (1982), Iskalde Grøss #8 [1988] (1988), Frontline Combat #3 (1996), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #1 (2012), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #10 (2014), We Spoke Out: Comic Books and the Holocaust #[nn] (2018), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #22 (2018), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #26 (2019), Choke Gasp! The Best of 75 Years of EC Comics #[nn] (2019), Verta ja väristyksiä #[nn] (2023), Frontline Combat #3

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