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Issue: The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #26
Publication Date: January 2019
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Issues: #26 of 37 Issues
Title: Atom Bomb and Other Stories
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Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
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Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/2019
Volume: 26
Pages: 268
ISBN: 9781683962458
UPC/EAN: 978168396245853500
Price: $35.00 USD
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Content Items: 53 (40 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Hardcover
Color: black and white with some color
Dimensions: 7.25" x 10.25" (18.4 cm x 26 cm)
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Binding: hardcover
Publishing Format: collected edition
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Synopsis: Cover with two illustrations by Wally Wood.
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Atom Bomb and Other Stories

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Atom Bomb and Other Stories

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Table of Contents

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The Horrors, Hardships and Futility of War

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First Line: From the Merchant Marine to the U.S. Paratroops
Synopsis: Essay on the stories included in this volume along with a photo of and art by Wood.
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Revolution!

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Genres: war
Character(s): Clay Hill (professional soldier, death); "Bullet" Hunter (death); General Bovar (Revolution leader, death); Bovar's pilots (all die); San Sonorez (villain)
Synopsis: Hill and Hunter meet up once again in the Canal Zone, and Hill discovers that his friend Hunter has accepted an offer from General Bovar to fly and fight for him in the on-going revolution. Unfortunately, Hunter soon discovers that his aerial opponent is none other than Clay Hill.
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Brutal Capt. Bull!

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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Jeremiah Pringle; Captain Bull (villain); unnamed Bosun (villain); Donklin (villain)
Synopsis: At the turn of the 18th Century, the British Navy found itself lacking manpower, so it originated "press gangs", which impressed or forced men into the King's service. Jeremiah Pringle was such a man and he finds himself aboard the Corvette H.M.S. Confidence, under the command of the notorious Captain Bull.
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Devils in Baggy Pants!

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Genres: war
Character(s): Private Albert "Duck-Butt" Smith (death); Sergeant Purvis; U.S. soldiers [Cibelli (cameo, death); Hawkins (cameo, death); Green (cameo, death); rest unnamed] (many die); General Dwight D. Eisenhower (unnamed, cameo); The Nazis (villains, many die)
Synopsis: During the D-Day invasion in June of 1944, one Pvt. Smith, often considered by his Sergeant to be a coward, engaged himself in many battles during the campaign, including a battle in which he held off the Germans while the Sergeant was supposed to blow a bridge over which the enemy would attack. A Tiger tank, able to cross the bridge because it was not destroyed, killed the young Private while the Sergeant became a victim of battle fatigue and didn't complete his mission.
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The Murmansk Run!

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Character(s): Uriah Bragg (seaman, death); Cavendish (crew member, death); Whispy (crew member, death); ship's Captain (death); ship's Steward (death)
Synopsis: The Murmansk run was considered the most treacherous and dangerous run for any ship to make, but the "Bunker Hill" vowed to make it nonetheless. One seaman, named Bragg, was a real pain to the other crew members, always complaining of being tired and cold, and when he took over watch one night, he decided to find a comfy place and have a cigarette. Unfortunately for all aboard, an enemy submarine spotted the glow of his cigarette and torpedoed the ship.
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Unterseeboot 113

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Massacre at Agincourt!

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Character(s): Edouard Rene de Gascony (French commander, death); King Henry (British commander)
Synopsis: The French have massed their forces between the English and the sea at Agincourt, confident that they would wipe out the British forces camped nearby. So confident was De Gascony of France that he refused to wait for the Army reinforcements of the Duke of Brittany and De Loingy in spite of being told the British had many tricks up their sleeves. Likewise the British commander felt it the time to attack was now. The battle began and De Gascony was felled by an arrow, then finished off by a lance in his head.
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Gettysburg!

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Old Soldiers Never Die!

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Character(s): Pappy Davidson; Caruso; unnamed American replacement soldiers (many die); the Germans (villains)
Synopsis: U.S. replacement soldiers have a lot to learn on the battlefield and old Pappy Davidson is trying to teach them. But they make major errors which cost them their lives, but one, Caruso, learns the lessons. However, when the war is finally declared to be over, he searched out Pappy to give him the news and discovers that the veteran soldier has died in the last battle.
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Desert Fox!

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Bug Out!!

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Light Brigade!

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Bunker Hill!

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Hungnam!

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War of 1812!

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Custer's Last Stand

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Iwo Jima!

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Pell's Point!

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Caesar!

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Character(s): Julius Caesar
Synopsis: After conquering Germany and France, Ceasar is killed by his own senate.
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Choose Sides!

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Knights!

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A Baby!

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Character(s): Tok-San; Ok-Dong; Kil-Soon
Synopsis: Young Ok-Dong is born at the end of World War II and is a small child when the Korean War begins and kills his entire family.
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Blockade!

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Hannibal!

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H-5!

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Atom Bomb!

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Wolf!

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Wolf!

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Writer(s): Jerry De Fuccio
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Trial by Arms!

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Albatross!

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New Orleans!

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Perimeter!

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Carl Akeley!

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The Outsider

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Locker 9

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Greasemonkey

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Genres: war
Character(s): Sergeant Stuart Warner; Dan "Smitty" Smith
Synopsis: Sgt Warner is a lowly greasemonkey after washing out of flight training when a horrible accident kills his best friend.
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The Novice and the Ace

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Character(s): Ernie Munson; Pat Pierce; Willis; Art Milburn; Chuck Snyder
Synopsis: A group of American aces is scared to take on a German pilot with 30+ kills.
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Ordeal

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Synopsis: Lieutenant Stoner, an experienced pilot, must do the one thing that scares him.
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Final Flights

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First Line: If there's never been Frontline Combat...
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The Battle of Britain!

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ME-262!

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Synopsis: Scene of soldiers in combat.
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Wallace Wood

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First Line: Wallace Wood's ambition was to be the best artist in comics...
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Behind the Panels

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Synopsis: Biographies of Dan Adkins, Jerry De Fuccio, Archie Goodwin, Harvey Kurtzman, Ralph Reese, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Carl Wessler, Tatjana Wood.
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The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library

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The Life and Legend of Wally Wood

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An Outstanding collection of battle tales from a comics grandmaster!

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