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Issue: Two-Fisted Tales #31
Publication Date: January 1953
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Issues: #31 of 24 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagEC
Brand: EC An Entertaining ComicView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Fables Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 7 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Civil War issue
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S.
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-Stitched
Publishing Format: Was ongoing
Format Notes:  
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): Harvey Kurtzman (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: historical, war
First Line: They're skipping the shots in at our water-line! Get down!
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In Content Item: FlagTwo-Fisted Tales #31 published February 1953
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagTwo-Fisted Tales #14 published January 1996
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: According to Marie Severin (1995), “[Harvey] Kurtzman colored his own art, especially on covers....”
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References:

Cassell, Dewey, with Aaron Sultan. 2012. “The Artists of EC Comics” (reprinting Severin 1995). In Marie Severin: The Mirthful Mistress of Comics. 46–47. Raleigh: TwoMorrows Publishing.

Severin, Marie (John Province, transcriber [uncredited]). 1995. “Mostly About Color.” In CFA-APA 36, January.
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Blockade!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Character(s): Bob (southern sailor); Eggleston (northern Naval commander)
First Line: Monitor vs. Merrimac!
Synopsis: The famed battle between two ironclad warships during the Civil War is recounted and the battle that effectively ended the reign of the wooden warship.
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In Content Item: FlagTwo-Fisted Tales #14 published January 1996
as Blockade! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Campaign!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: historical, war
Character(s): General George M. McClellan [aka The Little Napoleon]; Union sergeant
First Line: General McClellan!
Synopsis: While General McClellan puts his recruits through practice maneuvers for the Peninsular Campaign, a veteran sergeant brags to the recruits that he has been in several key battles and a bullet has never touched him and never will. He accompanies the recruits in battle at Richmond, then other areas, and at last is felled, not by a bullet, but by fever!
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In Content Item: FlagTwo-Fisted Tales #14 published January 1996
as Campaign! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #10 published August 2014
as Campaign! [Story on Interior Page(s)]Reprinted in black and white.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Donelson!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Character(s): Northern soldiers (some die); General Smith (Union General); General Ulysses S. Grant; Southern soldiers (villains, some die); General Floyd (villain, Rebel General)
First Line: Meanwhile... as the newly kindled fire of war blazed in the east...
Synopsis: Four Union ironclads close in on the gem defense area for the South: Fort Donaldson, aiming to get the Rebels to show some respect for the Union. The battle is successful, although costly for the North.
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In Content Item: FlagTwo-Fisted Tales #14 published January 1996
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Story occurs on February 14th.
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Air-Minded Fitz John

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: war
First Line: Long before our present day airmen donned their crash helmets...
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Combat Correspondence
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters from Ralph Dudley, Dick Gillespie, Jim Murphy, Don Fagans, Jack Parisi, Danny Young, Bobby Alexander, Jim Casale, and Bill Larro.
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Grant!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: historical, war
Character(s): General Uylsses S. Grant [aka Sam]; Jesse Grant (Ulysses' father, flashback); Frank (West Point student, flashback)
First Line: Let us pause!
Synopsis: As Grant rides along, seemingly impervious to the bullets whizzing by and other elements of war, people reflect that, most of his life, Grant was a failure at everything he attempted to do. It was only in the element of war that he truly found his place in life.
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In Content Item: FlagTwo-Fisted Tales #14 published January 1996
as Grant! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #10 published August 2014
as Grant! [Story on Interior Page(s)]Reprinted in black and white.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Much of the story is told in flashback.

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