XOW Logo
Issue: Two-Fisted Science #[nn]
Publication Date: January 1997
 
Disclose Detail
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagGT Labs
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: none
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 132
ISBN: 0966010604
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $13.50 CAD
$0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 35 (16 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Jim Ottaviani
Disclose Notes: "Two-Fisted Science" is published with the generous assistance of the Xeric Foundation."
  Does this data need corrections? Become an editor.
Disclose Format
Publication Type: Trade Paperback
Color: color cover; black and white interior
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock:  
Binding: trade paperback
Publishing Format:  
Format Notes:  
Disclose Reprinted In0
There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted anywhere.
Disclose Images1
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
Assets0
 
Disclose Issue Images
Einstein

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Jim Ottaviani
Paul Chadwick
Paul Chadwick
Paul Chadwick
?
Subject Matter
Albert Einstein; Abraham Pais
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Disclose
Cover Story - Einstein

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jim Ottaviani
typeset
Subject Matter
Albert Einstein
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Inside front cover, text relates to cover illustration.
Disclose
Title Page / Credits

Credits  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
typeset
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
2
Title page with logo and credits page.
Disclose
Table of Contents

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
typeset
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Disclose
Blank Page

Blank Page(s)  on  Interior Page(s)
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Disclose
Prologue

Credits  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
typeset
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
2
Black title page with "prologue" written on it, followed by a blank black page.
Disclose
A Night Before

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jim Ottaviani
Donna Barr
Donna Barr
Donna Barr
Subject Matter
Wolfgang Pauli
Pauli mulls over an atomic effect while standing on a bridge. An old woman thinks he is considering jumping off to commit suicide.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
2
Disclose
Two-Fisted

Credits  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
typeset
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
2
Introduction page with "Two-Fisted" written on it, followed by a blank page. Both pages have a solid black background.
Disclose
Full Circle

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jim Ottaviani
Scott Roberts
Scott Roberts
Scott Roberts
Subject Matter
biography
Galileo Galilei
Galileo's discoveries and his conflicts with the Roman Catholic Church.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
8
Disclose
Shoulders of Giants

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jim Ottaviani
Sean Bieri
Sean Bieri
Sean Bieri
Subject Matter
Isaac Newton; Gottfried Leibniz; Katzenjammer Kids [Hans; Fritz] (cameo); Andy Capp (cameo)
An allegory with Newton and Leibniz sitting at a bar, trying to invent calculus, while arguing with each other and being teased by fellow patrons.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
5
Disclose
Isaac Newton Quote

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Isaac Newton (quote)
typeset
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Disclose
A Very Good Scheme (Safecracker part 1)

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jim Ottaviani
Bernie Mireault
Bernie Mireault
Bernie Mireault
Subject Matter
biography
Richard Feynman
Richard Feynman; Leo Lavatelli
While working on the atomic bomb project, Richard Feynman engages in a hobby of picking locks and opening safes.
Reprinting
FlagTwo-Fisted Science: Safecracker #[nn] published January 1997
 
Miscellaneous
11
Disclose
Notes and References

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jim Ottaviani
Scott Roberts
Scott Roberts
typeset
Subject Matter
Galileo (cameo); Calvin (of Calvin and Hobbes) (cameo); Lex Luther (cameo)
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
2
Bibliography of previous sequences plus brief comments about the artists. One illustration.
Disclose
H. G. B. Casmir Quote

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
H. G. B. Casmir (quote)
typeset
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Disclose
Feynman

Credits  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
typeset
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
2
Introduction page with "Feynman" written on it, followed by a blank page. Both pages have a solid black background.
Disclose
Feynman Lectures on Physics

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jim Ottaviani
Rob Walton
Rob Walton
Rob Walton
Subject Matter
Richard Feynman
Richard Feynman
Feynman's introductory lecture on the nature of physics.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
3
Disclose
Richard Feynman Quote

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Richard Feynman (quote)
typeset
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Disclose
Arline

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jim Ottaviani
David Lasky
David Lasky
David Lasky
Subject Matter
biography
Richard Feynman
Richard Feynman; Arline Feynman; Niels Bohr; Eugene P. Wigner; Hans Bethe
Feynman writes about his courtship with his wife Arlene and their problems with her health. And how it affects his work at Los Alamos.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
17
Disclose
Blank Page

Blank Page(s)  on  Interior Page(s)
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Solid black page between stories.
Disclose
Either You Open It or You Don't (Safecracker part 2)

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jim Ottaviani
Bernie Mireault
Bernie Mireault
Bernie Mireault
Subject Matter
biography
Richard Feynman
Richard Feynman
Feynman describes opening a safe in Oak Ridge, Tenn.
Reprinting
FlagTwo-Fisted Science: Safecracker #[nn] published January 1997
 
Miscellaneous
6
Disclose
CERN

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jim Ottaviani
Mark Badger
Mark Badger
Mark Badger
Subject Matter
biography
Richard Feynman
Richard Feynman; Tom Van Sant
Fenyman and a friend visit the Centre European pour las Recherche Nucléaire (CERN).
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
6
Disclose
Notes and References

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jim Ottaviani
Bernie Mireault
Bernie Mireault
typeset
Subject Matter
Richard Feynman (cameo)
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
2
Modified panel from Either You Open It or You Don't as illustration.
Disclose
Most of the Good Stuff

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jim Ottaviani
Scott Saavedra
Scott Saavedra
Scott Saavedra
Subject Matter
biography
Richard Feynman
Richard Feynman
Feynman goes on a walk with a friend after receiving a diagnosis of mxyoid liposarcoma.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
4
Page two is nine panels that form a one-drawing background.
Disclose
Science

Credits  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
typeset
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
2
Black title page with "Science" written on it, followed by a blank black page.
Disclose
Russell Lectures on Cosmology

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jim Ottaviani
Colleen Doran
Colleen Doran
Colleen Doran
Subject Matter
Bertrand Russell
A probably apocryphal story of Bertrand Russell lecturing on astronomy and being challenged by an old woman who believes "it's turtles all the way down."
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Disclose
Tickling the Dragon's Tail (Safecracker part 3)

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jim Ottaviani
Bernie Mireault
Bernie Mireault
Bernie Mireault
Subject Matter
biography
Richard Feynman
Richard Feynman; Freddy de Hoffman
Feynman breaks into a number of safes at Los Alamos to get a document for a punch card job, while the project is in the final stages of developing a nuclear reaction.
Reprinting
FlagTwo-Fisted Science: Safecracker #[nn] published January 1997
 
Miscellaneous
13
Disclose
Moscow: Lab No. 2

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jim Ottaviani
Lin Lucas
Lin Lucas
Lin Lucas
Subject Matter
espionage, historical
Anatoli Alexandrov
Spy Anatoli Alexandro has a paranoid trip to deliver American atomic secrets to a Moscow lab in 1944, only to discover that the neighbor children already know the lab is working on an atomic bomb.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
4
Disclose
Heavy Water

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jim Ottaviani
Steve Lieber
Steve Lieber
?
Steve Lieber
Subject Matter
historical
Niels Bohr; Werner Heisenberg; Albert Einstein
Heisenberg visits Niels Bohr, in occupied Copenhagen in 1941. The two reminisce about their problem-solving on quantum mechanics during the 1930s, before going on a walk where they discuss the morals of working on an atomic bomb.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
19
Disclose
Notes and References

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jim Ottaviani
?
?
typeset
Subject Matter
Li'l Abner (cameo); Nancy (cameo)
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
2
Disclose
Richard Feynman Quote

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Richard Feynman (quote)
typeset
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Disclose
Epilogue

Credits  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
typeset
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
2
Two blank black pages, with "epilogue" on the first page.
Disclose
The Night After

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jim Ottaviani
Donna Barr
Donna Barr
Donna Barr
Subject Matter
historical
Hans Bethe; Rose Bethe
Hans Bethe, who discovered how stars shine, goes on a nighttime walk with his future wife in the 1930s.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
2
Disclose
Blank Pages

Blank Page(s)  on  Interior Page(s)
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
2
Last two interior pages are blank--one all black, the other all white.
Disclose
Cover Story - Oppenheimer

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jim Ottaviani
typeset
Subject Matter
Robert Oppenheimer
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Inside back cover, referring to the back cover illustration.
Disclose
Oppenheimer

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Jim Ottaviani; J. Robert Oppenheimer (quote)
Guy Davis
Guy Davis
Guy Davis
Subject Matter
Robert Oppenheimer
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Back cover.

Site designed and hosted by XOWTech, Inc..
Any questions or problems with this site should be directed to REMOVE-webmaestro-THESE@xowcomics.com.

XOW, XOWComics.com, XOWTech and XOWTech.com are registered trademarks of XOWTech, Inc.
© XOWTech, Inc., 2010 - 2024. All rights reserved.

Some data courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution license.