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Issue: Two-Fisted Tales #20
Publication Date: March 1951
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Issues: #20 of 24 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagEC
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Fables Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/29/1950
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 7 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is the publication date reported in the U. S. Copyright Office filings.
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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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Cover, Front
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): Harvey Kurtzman (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, war
Character(s): Joe (death)
First Line: Gee, Joe! I heard that a lot of the enemy are infiltrating with these refugees!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTwo-Fisted Tales #20 published April 1951
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagTwo-Fisted Tales #3 published April 1993
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagEC Archives: Two-Fisted Tales #1 published February 2007
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letterer credit by Craig Delich.

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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Massacred!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Character(s): unnamed sergeant; South Korean soldiers [Yup-in-Pai (death); others unnamed]; 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 mistook them for Americans and killed them all.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTwo-Fisted Tales #3 published April 1993
as Massacred! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEC Archives: Two-Fisted Tales #1 published February 2007
as Massacred! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #10 published August 2014
as Massacred! [Story on Interior Page(s)]Reprinted in black and white.
In Content Item: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #10 published August 2014
as [untitled] [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]page 8, panel 4
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Much of the story is told in flashback.

Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin, but it is unlikely that Severin had begun coloring at EC when this issue was colored (Cassell 2012, 33–34 and 171).
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Reference:

Cassell, Dewey, with Aaron Sultan. 2012. Marie Severin: The Mirthful Mistress of Comics. Raleigh: TwoMorrows Publishing.

Cover story. Although in the story the North Korean soldiers pretend to be American soldiers rather than refugees.
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Devils in Baggy Pants!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTwo-Fisted Tales #3 published April 1993
as Devils in Baggy Pants! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEC Archives: Two-Fisted Tales #1 published February 2007
as Devils in Baggy Pants! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Story takes place on D-Day.

Parts of the story told in flashback.

Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin (see Indexer Notes for “Massacred!,” above).
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Thirst!

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (masthead illustration)
Inker(s): ? (masthead illustration)
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Louis Lafourche (villain, death)
Synopsis: Prisoner Lafourche had kept his word and escaped from Devil's Island, boarded a boat with food and water, and rode the currents toward safety in Brazil. He soon ran out of water but dared not drink the salty sea water, and on the 7th day, when he was rescued by a ship, he quickly died, not realizing that the water he was floating on contained fresh, not salt water!
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In Issue: FlagTwo-Fisted Tales #3 published April 1993
In Content Item: FlagEC Archives: Two-Fisted Tales #1 published February 2007
as Thirst! [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Page count revision and art credits by Craig Delich.

Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin (see Indexer Notes for “Massacred!,” above).
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Observation Post!

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (masthead illustration)
Inker(s): ? (masthead illustration)
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Corporal Donald Deever (death)
Synopsis: Signal Corps Corporal Deever was inching his way up the side of a treacherous hill, seeking the enemy cannon that held an entire regiment at bay. When he discovered that it was actually a constantly moving self-propelled cannon, he radioed his forces to rain shells down on his position to put the gun out of commission, costing him his life.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagTwo-Fisted Tales #3 published April 1993
In Content Item: FlagEC Archives: Two-Fisted Tales #1 published February 2007
as Observation Post! [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Art credits by Craig Delich.

Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin (see Indexer Notes for “Massacred!,” above).
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Colt Single Action Army Revolver!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: western
Character(s): Pop (prospecting partner of Rufe, death); Pelado (gambler, death); Lem (gambler, death); unnamed gambler (death); Wiley (gambler); Jose Fillipa (a peon); Juan Fillipa (Jose's brother, death); Rufe (villain, death)
Synopsis: A Western badman kills his prospecting partner and then muses over what may happen to the remaining five bullets in his gun. Over time, the gun passes through several hands, then comes back into the possession of Rufe with one bullet remaining: a bullet that he then uses to kill himself!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #7/1989 published January 1989
as Colt Single Action Army Revolver! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTwo-Fisted Tales #3 published April 1993
as Colt Single Action Army Revolver! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEC Archives: Two-Fisted Tales #1 published February 2007
as Colt Single Action Army Revolver! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin (see Indexer Notes for “Massacred!,” above).
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Pirate Gold!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): Harvey Kurtzman ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTwo-Fisted Tales #3 published April 1993
as Pirate Gold! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEC Archives: Two-Fisted Tales #1 published February 2007
as Pirate Gold! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Story occurs in the 18th Century.

Marie Severin’s statement that “[Harvey] Kurtzman colored his own art, especially on covers...” (see Indexer Notes for this issue’s cover) suggests that Kurtzman colored stories that he drew, albeit perhaps less consistently than he colored his cover art.

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