Frontline Combat #9 (1952) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	script: Harvey Kurtzman; pencils: Harvey Kurtzman; inks: Harvey Kurtzman; colors: Harvey Kurtzman; letters: Ben Oda
1	Introduction	foreword, introduction, preface, afterword	1	script: Harvey Kurtzman; pencils: John Severin; inks: John Severin; letters: John Severin	President Jefferson Davis (inset); President Abraham Lincoln (inset); General Robert E. Lee (inset); General Ulysses S. Grant (inset)
2	Abe Lincoln!	comic story	8	script: Harvey Kurtzman; pencils: Jack Davis; inks: Jack Davis; colors: Marie Severin; letters: Ben Oda	unnamed black man (narrator); Abraham Lincoln; Lincoln's grandfather (death); Tom Lincoln (Abraham Lincoln's father); Jack Armstrong (bully); Clary's Grove Boys; Indians (villains, some die)
3	First Shot!	comic story	7	script: Harvey Kurtzman; pencils: John Severin; inks: Bill Elder; colors: Marie Severin; letters: Ben Oda	Major Robert Anderson (Ft. Sumter commander); Union soldiers (one dies); Confederate soldiers
4	Speech	text story	1	pencils: Harvey Kurtzman; inks: Harvey Kurtzman; colors: Marie Severin
5	-	letters page	1	colors: Marie Severin
6	Choose Sides!	comic story	6	script: Harvey Kurtzman; pencils: Wally Wood; inks: Wally Wood; colors: Marie Severin; letters: Ben Oda	Union General Sigel (death); Grandpa (death)
7	Bull Run!	comic story	7	script: Harvey Kurtzman; pencils: John Severin; inks: John Severin; colors: Marie Severin; letters: Ben Oda	Union captain (death); three Union soldiers [aka the Three Musketeers] (one dies);

Edition	How to tell
Orange "Civil War" Variant	See the GCD record for identification notes.

Collection	Year
Frontline Combat #9	1997	On eBay ›
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The Comic Book in America: An Illustrated History #[nn] ISBN 0-87833-659-1	1989	On eBay ›
Atom Bomb and Other Stories ISBN 978-1-68396-245-8	2019	On eBay ›

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