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Issue: Two-Fisted Tales #2
Publication Date: January 1980
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Issues: #2 of 4 Issues
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Publisher: FlagRuss Cochran
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Indicia Publisher: Russ Cochran, Publisher
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Volume: 2
Pages: 212
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Content Items: 52 (30 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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First Line: Keep going! It's a North Korean road block!
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First Line: Wake up! Wake up, men! We've been surroun...uk!
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Harvey Kurtzman

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Hill 203!

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Bug Out!!

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Boomerang!

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Disclose Notes: Letters from Pfc. Richard Lupoff (future author), Roger Winters, Gerry McLaughlin, John P. Browne, Ernest Bauer, A Friend, Tod McRees, Richard D. W. Schultz.
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Rubble!

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Genres: war
Character(s): Mr. Chun (death); Mrs. Chun (death); North Korean soldiers (villains); Chinese soldiers (villains)
Synopsis: A tale from the Korean War is told through "the eyes" of the battlefield rubble of the Chun family home.
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Weak Link!

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Genres: war
Character(s): Lieutenant Stonzek (death); un-named Sergeant (death); Jonesy (death); Swenson [aka Swen] (death); Pringle (death); The Nazis (villains, some die)
Synopsis: Told by HQ that the Jerries are sending Tiger tanks down a particular road, American forces decide to set up an ambush. Two men note that logs have been laid into the water to serve as a means of tanks crossing the river and realize they have been suckered into a trap, but it's too late for all of the American forces.
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Annotations

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First Line: Fellas! I just got news they're planning an armistice!
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Jack Davis

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Mud!

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Bunker Hill!

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One More Mission

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Disclose Notes: Letters from Sheila Nichols, Margaret Spenner, William Wishart, John Yuille, Robert Clifton, Henry R. Lovenson, Ernie Blunk, Mickey Lambert, Bobby Kingston, James A. Brackett, Lowell Largent.
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Corpse on the Imjin!

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Genres: war
Character(s): American soldier; North Korean soldier (villain, death)
Synopsis: An American soldier muses about the corpses of soldiers floating down the Imjin River and how they may have died, when he is suddenly attacked by an enemy........and one of the two becomes the next corpse floating down the river.
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Buzz Bomb!

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Character(s): American lieutenant; The Nazis [Wolf (death); Eric (death); Heinrich] (villains)
Synopsis: As Americans make their way into Germany, the Nazis are sending buzz bombs over their heads. Farther east are German troops, coming in the opposite direction, and, they too, experience buzz bombs flying over their heads. However, one German paratrooper senses the bombs are actually heading in their direction instead of at the enemy. For once, he is right, and the bomb kills his two friends, and when the Americans catch up with the lone survivor, he has literally gone insane from fear.
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First Line: Some say us marines retreated from the Changjin reservoir!
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War Map of Korea

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The Trap!

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Character(s): US marines [un-named sergeant; Salisbury; Corporal Tram (death); others un-named (one dies)]; North Korean soldiers (villains, many die)
Synopsis: US marines are on the march to the Changjin Reservoir when they are attacked by entrenched enemy soldiers. Due to some precise planning, the sergeant finds a way to sneak upon the enemy and defeat them. However, the marines are then ordered to retreat, something grunt Salisbury doesn't understand from his position on the battlefield. He soon learns that their Marine unit was surrounded by 100,000 Chinese soldiers, facing certain annihilation.
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Hagaru-Ri!

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Miracle?

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Disclose Notes: Letters from Ken Little, Pfc. Joseph Knickerbocker, H. Morgan, A Friend, Tommy Timiyama, Gary Zeltzer.
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Link-Up!

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Genres: war
Character(s): U.N. troops [a medic; Quinn; rest un-named]; The Chinese (villains, many die)
Synopsis: The Chinese Army is on the march to South Korea to destroy the 1st Marine Division, and the morale of all United Nations troops, before the marines and the Allied Army link up. The Chinese charge the U.N. forces, paying a terrible price for doing so.
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Hungnam!

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First Line: Keep going! It's a North Korean road block!
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Wallace Wood

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Luck!

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Character(s): American lieutenant; American sergeant; American colonel; other American soldiers (many die); North Korean soldiers (villains, many die)
Synopsis: The American lieutenant was lucky -- very lucky -- standing in the open and just asking for the North Korean snipers to shoot him down. Again and again they missed, and his men succeed in picking off the enemy soldiers, until a supposedly dead North Korean finishes him off.
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Custer's Last Stand

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Genres: war, western
Character(s): General George Custer
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Escape Plot

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Disclose Notes: Letters from Robert E. Lee, Jr., Cpl. John W. Janes, Steve Smith, Alan Wheelock, Tomas Azarian, T/Sgt. D. C. Milward, Tim Sarautis, Pvt. Al Scheinerman, Tommy Tomiyama, Wesley Kornbluth, Norman Helwig, Ronald Bork, An E. C. Fan, John Cary, Bob Jackson.
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D-Day!

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Genres: war
Character(s): American sergeant; American corporal
Synopsis: American Rangers are on their way to Pointe Du Hoe by landing craft, expecting the Germans not to believe that the Americans would scale the sheer cliffs of Pointe Du Hoe. G-2 didn't expect all that would go wrong with the operation, but, fortunately, the sergeant in command realized that one always has to allow for the unforeseeable, and the operation succeeded.
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Jeep!

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First Line: ...no! The tank carrying the wounded! ...it hit a mine!
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Harvey Kurtzman

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Checkers!

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Genres: war
Character(s): SFC Straus (tank commander); E-7 Kilpatrick (tank commander); Rudolph; un-named company officer; patrol lieutenant; North Koreans (villains, some die)
Synopsis: Finishing a game of checkers, Straus and Kilpatrick nearly miss a required briefing of all tank commanders by the C.O., who informs them that a patrol sent down the Kumhwa Road had been ambushed and badly hit, and they needed to be rescued. When the going gets tough, Straus and Kilpatrick manuever their tanks as if they were playing checkers and win the battle, saving the platoon.
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Pell's Point!

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Submerge!

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Alamo!

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Character(s): Colonel Davy Crockett (death); Colonel Jim Bowie (death); General Santa Anna (villain); Private Morelos (villain)
Synopsis: The siege of the Alamo has begun, and it is 150 Americans versus 4000 Mexicans under the command of Santa Anna, who has said that there will be no quarter. Among the Mexicans is Private Morelos, who wants no part of a massacre, but who is selected to kill the last of five survivors.
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Saipan!

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First Line: They've captured the ridge! Fire by sight! Fire b...uh!
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Korea!

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Red Knight!

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Genres: aviation, war
Character(s): un-named Allied pilots (many die); Baron Manfred von Richthofen (villain, death); the Germans (villains)
Synopsis: Baron von Richthofen sits at his table on occasion after occasion, documenting his various kills through number 80, until that fateful day when he was in an aerial fight and his plane glided down toward the ground ever so slowly and landed. Allied troops approached and found the baron dead behind his stick.
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Scout-Snipers

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Washington!

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Genres: historical, war
Character(s): General George Washington; Revolutionary soldiers [Patrick (death)]; British soldiers (enemy)
Synopsis: General Washington and his forces are on Manhattan Island on September 15, 1776, on the receiving end of British bombardment from the sea. Severely outnumbered, many of the men wish to run, but Washington pleads with them to stay, in vain. As his army deserts him, the general and his horse are led off the field of battle, but the war has just begun!
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Fire Mission!

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Character(s): a 4.2 mortar crew (two die)
Synopsis: A new recruit to a mortar crew during the Korean War was complaining about all of the rifle fire around their position, but he soon learns a real lesson in warfare.
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Russ Cochran Presents the Complete EC Library

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First Line: Fellas! I just got word they're arranging an armistice!
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