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Title: FRONTLINE COMBAT No. 12
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Publisher:Entertaining Comics
Date Published: May, 1953
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Fine+ (6.5). Nice mag. Light spine stress; very light wear top edge. Tan to cream pages. Jack Davis cover. Art by Davis, Evans, Wood, Toth.

Special Air Force ish. Includes Alex Toth's "F-86 Sabre Jet!", which caused friction between hard-to-please Kurtzman and prickly Toth. "The trick with Toth was to keep him away from that run amuck shadow technique of his, which he swore up and down was God's gift to art." -Kurtzman, quoted in Bill Schelly's Harvey Kurtzman, The Man Who Created MAD and Revolutionized Humor in America. Fantagraphics: 2015.

Along with his design sense, Toth's "shadow technique" was the defining characteristic of his style. Kurtzman's rigidity ensured that Toth would never work for him again.

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