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