Frontline Combat #3
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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