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Issue: Two-Fisted Tales #1
Publication Date: January 1980
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Issues: #1 of 4 Issues
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Publisher: FlagRuss Cochran
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Indicia Publisher: Russ Cochran, Publisher
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 212
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Content Items: 48 (34 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color cover; mostly black & white interior
Dimensions: 10" x 13"
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Binding: Hardcover
Publishing Format: Collected Edition
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Genres: adventure
First Line: Here I am, you bilge-rat...
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A Note from the Publisher

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First Line: Here I am, you bilge-rat...
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Conquest

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Genres: adventure
Character(s): unnamed Indian King (death); various native inhabitants (many die); Captain Juan Alvarado (villain, death); Alvarado's men [Francesco; Lieutenant Velasquez; others unnamed] (villains, all die)
Synopsis: Given a commission by the Spanish government, Captain Alvarado arrives in the Americas on a mission of conquest of the native inhabitants and the looting of their gold.
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Hong Kong Intrigue!

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Man-Trap!

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Rescue

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Revolution!

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Mutiny

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Notes and Comments

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First Line: Enemy soldier!
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Harvey Kurtzman and the Dogs of War

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War Story!

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Character(s): Dave Hunzer (flashback, death); Duke Hunzer (flashback); Colonel Hishomura (villain, death); The Japanese (villains, many die, flashback); North Koreran soldiers (villains, some die)
Synopsis: A new soldier is involved in a fire fight with the enemy and believes that he has killed his first man though the enemy was already dead. Visibly shaken, he considers himself a killing machine, but his sergeant tells him a real story of killers that involves two brothers in World War 2.
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Escape

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Decoy

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Jivaro Death!

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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Senor Churchill (diamond messenger, death); Churchill's bodyguard (death); Slick Charlie (villain, death); Garcia (villain, death); Smitty (villain, Charlie's con man, death); The Jivaros (villains, head shrinkers)
Synopsis: Slick Charlie and Garcia waylay a diamond messenger and his bodyguard, assume their identities and take possession of $500,000 in uncut diamonds. Disposing of Garcia, Charlie and fellow con man Smitty, on their way back to the States with the swag, choose to go through the dangerous Jivaro country to throw off the Police.....not their best decision.
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Flight from Danger!

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Brutal Capt. Bull!

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First Line: Gee, Joe! I heard that a lot of the enemy are infiltrating with these refugees!
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Massacred!

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Character(s): un-named sergeant; South Korean soldiers [Yup-in-Pai (death); others un-named]; Colonel Jun (villain, death); Li (villain, death); Kung (villain, death)
Synopsis: An American-South Korean patrol comes upon a group of massacred soldiers, all with their hands tied behind their backs with their own shoelaces and shot down. There is one who is still alive and he tells the sergeant what had happened: a North Korean officer had the Sergeant's men shot, then stripped of uniforms, which were then donned by the enemy troops. Unfortunately for them, they ran across a band of North Koreans who mis-took them for Americans and killed them all.
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Devils in Baggy Pants

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Thirst!

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Observation Post

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Colt Single Action Army Revolver

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Pirate Gold!

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Character(s): Sebastin (death?); Diego (death?); Thomas Tew (Sawkin's First Mate, death); Calico Jack Sharp (Sawkin's 2nd Mate, death); Ben Avery (Sawkin's Boatswain, death); Captain Ben Sawkins (villain, pirate, commander of the "Pandora", death)
Synopsis: Two seamen save a man adrift at sea who suffers from amnesia......a man searching for a Thomas Tew, the man's former shipmate that he believes knows the location of a casket of Spanish doubloons.
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First Line: We're in a cross-fire!
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Ambush!

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Pigs of the Roman Empire

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Character(s): Commander Decius (death); Decius' un-named slave (death); Brennus (slave of Decius and Wise Man, death); Genseric (King of the Vandals); the Vandals
Synopsis: After watching his slave fight gallantly against a gladiator and lose, Decius fails to spare the man's life. Soon after, he is told that the Vandals are marching on his position and so he goes out to lead his troops against them. He will soon pay the ultimate price for not having any feelings for his fellow man.
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Hero

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Dig, You Mutinous Cur!

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The Murmansk Run!

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Search!

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Genres: war
Character(s): Joe Angliosani (a soldier); "The Kid" (a soldier, death); Mario Angliosani (Joe's brother, death); The Nazis (villains, many die)
Synopsis: Joe, born in Italy but now living in America, is back in his home nation during the Italian Campaign, seeking out his brother Mario who never got the chance to go to America. He moves on from Anzio, never realizing that he found his brother......but never knew it!
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First Line: Take cover!
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Enemy Contact

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Dying City!

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Character(s): Kim's grandfather; Sun Yoo (Kim's sister, flashback, death); Kim's father (flashback, death); Kim's mother (flashback, death); Kim (villain, North Korean soldier, death); North Korean soldiers (villains)
Synopsis: An idealistic young Korean joins the North Korean army while his family is left behind to deal with the day to day life during wartime.
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Siege

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Feature(s): Combat Correspondence
Synopsis: Letters of comment from Roger Curtis, St. Paul MN; Norman St. Peter, Pittsfield MA; Cpl. Walter Kosneki, San Francisco CA; and Nancy Cash, Louisville KY
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Massacre at Agincourt

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Chicken!

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Character(s): Lieutenant Robert Hall (death); Captain Harold Black (death)
Synopsis: Lt. Hall is being dressed down by his superior, all over not enforcing discipline on his troops while they are in combat, as well as giving advice to the Captain that was unasked for. When the Captain's foolish actions lead to the deaths of all the members of his squad, Hall is ordered to go back, yet again, for another squad of men. But Hall is told that the Marines will shell the area soon, and Hall says that he will will go back and get the Captain, but the Captain will not let him speak and shoots him down....but with a devastating aftermath.
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First Line: Turn back!
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Death Stand!

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Old Soldiers Never Die!

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The Ditch

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Feature(s): Combat Correspondence
Synopsis: Letters from: Company A Gulf Coast Military Academy (Gulfport MS), Gene Burnett (USS Thomas F. Nickel), Pfc. W.L. Taylor (10th Air Rescue Sqdn AK), Pvt. T.G. Payne (Jr Camp Gordon, GA), A.K. Altos (Jersey City NJ), Jimmy Kish (New York City, NY), Duke Thames (Beaumont TX), Gerald Knokal (Yakima WA), Sonny Somerville (Torrance CA), Russ Smith (Santa Monica CA), Alfred Pollack, Grady Chastain (Brownwood TX), Alvin Poffenberg (Clinton IA)
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Kill!

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Character(s): Abner (soldier, death); Joe (soldier); North Korean soldiers [Li (death); others unnamed] (villains)
Synopsis: Two opposing soldiers, who truly hate the other side, each prepare in their own ways to meet their foe......the result is not what either expected.
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Dog Fight!

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Genres: aviation, war
Character(s): USMC Captain Jacob Strange (pilot); Sergeant J. F. Friday; Bates (pilot); Johnson (pilot); The Japanese (villains, some die)
Synopsis: Fighter pilot Strange, despondent over the perceived loss of his girl, Katherine, really doesn't care whether or not he dies when fighting against the enemy. When the enemy approaches, Strange is told that a whole sack full of mail for him has come in, and he tells Friday to hold them until he comes back. Unsettled weather and fog settles in over the airfield, and the field radio crackles with Jake's plea to give him landing instructions since he can't see the base......but his receiver is out and he heads on out to sea, never seeing the sack full of letters from Katherine.
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Russ Cochran Presents the Complete EC Library

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First Line: Take cover!
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