The creation of MAD would have been enough to cement Harvey Kurtzman's reputation as one of the titans of comic history, 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.