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Gary Groth (Author), Harvey Kurtzman (Author)
November 2012
ISBN-10 : 9781606995457 ISBN-13 : 978-1606995457
English
240
black&white
Release imported from British library - public domain license
The creation of MAD would have been enough to cement Harvey Kurtzman’s reputation as one of the titans of American comics, but Kurtzman also created two other comics landmarks: the scrupulously-researched and superbly-crafted war comics Two-Fisted Tales and Frontline Combat. Here were finally war comics without heroic, cigar-chomping sergeants, wisecracking privates from Brooklyn, or cartoon Nazis and “Japs” to be mowed down by the Yank heroes, but an unflinching look at the horror and madness of combat throughout history.