Frontline Combat #11
In "Bird-Dogs!", Harvey Kurtzman’s sharp storytelling and distinctive art bring a tense, atmospheric wartime mystery to life in this 1953 EC Comics standout. Set along the Afghan border, the story follows a London Daily Press editor investigating whispers of a deserter and a brutal, lone avenger—only to uncover a mission that blurs the line between duty and vengeance. Jack Davis’s striking cover captures the story’s ominous tone, while Kurtzman’s writing and art deliver a chilling, grounded narrative rooted in the weight of war and secrecy.
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The editor of the London Daily Press ventures to the Hurrum Hills along the Afghan border to meet with Tubridy in his quarters to ask delicate questions regarding unguarded talk of a deserter in F Company, something that was rare in the colonial service. Tubridy spoke of a Private Belbin and his friend Punda, and a mission Belbin volunteered for: to locate and stop a lone "avenger of blood", who hacked people to death with his Afghan sword. Tubridy later took a company of men out and found the lone avenger dead and only Belbin's binoculars laying next to him.
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