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Issue: Two-Fisted Tales #3
Publication Date: January 1980
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Issues: #3 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: 3
Pages: 212
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Price: none entered
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Content Items: 47 (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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Genres: aviation, war
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First Line: ...shots from the hill! Douse that light!
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Bunker!

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Genres: war
Character(s): American soldiers [Eightball; Jack; Gussie (death); unnamed Lieutenant (death); others unnamed]; The Chinese (villains, many die)
Synopsis: A craftily concealed American bunker lies directly between two Chinese bunkers, and their job is to take the east bunker........unaware that there is another concealed bunker.
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Knights!

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The Pendulum

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Wake!

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Genres: war
Character(s): Sonny (death); Duke (death); The Japanese (villains, many die)
Synopsis: Civilian workers on Wake Island contemplate what it means when twelve Grumman fighter planes land on the lonely island. Then the pilots suddenly begin talking about the Japanese attacking Pearl Harbor, and then the Japanese Air Force and Navy begin to attack the Wake.
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Fledgeling!

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Annotations

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First Line: They're skipping the shots in at our water-line! Get down!
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Blockade!

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Campaign!

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Genres: historical, war
Character(s): General George M. McClellan [aka The Little Napoleon]; Union sergeant
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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Donelson!

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Air-Minded Fitz John

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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!

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Genres: historical, war
Character(s): General Uylsses S. Grant [aka Sam]; Jesse Grant (Ulysses' father, flashback); Frank (West Point student, flashback)
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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Disclose Notes: De Fuccio credit by Craig Delich.

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First Line: Yamato class destroyer... coming with a bone in 'is teeth!
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Silent Service!

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Lost Battalion!

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Character(s): Captain McMurtry; Krotoshinsky; The Germans (villains)
Synopsis: The fierce battle between the Germans and 650 Americans is told through the eyes of a dead American soldier.
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Submarine School

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Hannibal!

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Tide!

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Character(s): The D-Day successful invasion landing is told through the efforts of the Navy Combat Demolition men.
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First Line: Hey, Signal Corps! Forget that wire and take cover!
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Signal Corps!

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Outpost!

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Indian Sign

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Disclose Notes: Letters from John White (four of them!), Carl Eberhardt, Phillip O'Daniels, Daniel Arant, John Brown, Johnny Rizzo, Albert Roy Saddler.
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Pearl Divers!

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Atom Bomb!

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Betsy!

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1. Original indexer stated: Harvey Kurtzman
2. Andy stated: Jack Davis
This is supported in the letters page of the actual issue, Tales of Terror EC Companion and the Cochran EC Library.
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Trial by Arms!

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1. Original indexer stated: Harvey Kurtzman
2. Andy stated: Wally Wood
This is supported in the letters page of the actual issue, Tales of Terror EC Companion and the Cochran EC Library.
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Salty Speech

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Disclose Notes: Letters from John Bell, Alex Spivey, Warren Smith and Eugene Davis.
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En Crapaudine!

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1. Original indexer stated: Harvey Kurtzman
2. Andy stated: Jerry de Fuccio and John Severin
This is supported in the letters page of the actual issue, Tales of Terror EC Companion and the Cochran EC Library.
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Guynemer!

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Genres: aviation, war
Character(s): Georges Guynemer (French ace); Bozun-Verduraz (pilot); the German Army (villains, many die)
Synopsis: Twice rejected for service in the French Army, Guynemer instead chose the air forces of his native land, and quickly rises to fame as an ace, walking away from near death many times.
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Special Issue: Civil War!

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Civil War Map

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Disclose Notes: This illustration shows the locations of the Battles of Fredericksburg, N. Orleans, Memphis and Chancellorsville. It also has illustrations of each side's head wear and uniforms with a color guide.
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Robert E. Lee!

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Genres: historical, war
Character(s): General Robert E. Lee; Private Charlie Bardeen (Union soldier, death)
Synopsis: The Army of the Potomac, now under General Ambrose Burnside, is marching confidently toward the Confederate capital of Richmond. But General Lee has deduced that that the army must go through Fredericksburg to get there, and that is where the Rebs will make a unexpected stand to stop them.
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New Orleans!

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Forrest!

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Disclose Notes: Two half-pages; each with a half-page house ad
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Disclose Notes: No letters; announcement of quarterly status and birth of E.C. Fan-Addict Club.
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Memphis!

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Genres: war
Character(s): Union Navy (many die); Confederate Navy (many die)
Synopsis: A huge fleet of Confederate ships steam up the Mississippi to engage the Union Navy in battle at Memphis, Tennessee, a battle resulting in a major defeat for the Rebel forces.
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Chancellorsville!

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Russ Cochran Presents the Complete EC Library

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Special Issue: Civil War!

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Disclose Notes: On back cover.

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