Strange Windows: “Someone had blunder’d”

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Art by Harvey Kurtzman

 

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

 — L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between

Among the most respected mainstream American comics ever produced are the war stories written and edited (and often drawn) by Harvey Kurtzman for the EC Comics titles Two-Fisted Tales and Frontline Combat between 1950 and 1953.

EC publisher Bill Gaines (left) with Kurtzman

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