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Frontline Combat
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<p><i>Frontline Combat</i> is an anthology <a href="/facts/War_comics/4XpmIPrm">war comic book</a> written and edited by <a href="/facts/Harvey_Kurtzman/xFY98U09">Harvey Kurtzman</a> and published bi-monthly by <a href="/facts/EC_Comics/qvyPMelX">EC Comics</a>. The first issue was <a href="/facts/Cover_date/G5kawzeV">cover dated</a> July/August, 1951. It ran for 15 issues over three years, and ended with the January, 1954 issue. Publication was discontinued following a decline in sales attributed to the end of the <a href="/facts/Korean_War/Qo93pNhE">Korean War</a>. The title was a companion to Kurtzman's comic book <i><a href="/facts/Two-Fisted_Tales/0WQYsrfU">Two-Fisted Tales</a></i>. Both titles depicted the horrors of war realistically and in great detail, exposing what Kurtzman saw as the truth about war without glamorizing or idealizing it. </p>