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Issue: Two-Fisted Tales #33
Publication Date: May 1953
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Issues: #33 of 24 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagEC
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Fables Publishing Co., Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 7 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Harvey Kurtzman
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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
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Cover, Front
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)
Inker(s): Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Ben Oda
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, war
First Line: Hey, Signal Corps! Forget that wire and take cover!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTwo-Fisted Tales #33 published June 1953
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagTwo-Fisted Tales #16 published July 1996
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Colorist and letterer credits by Craig Delich.
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Signal Corps!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harvey Kurtzman
Penciller(s): Jack Davis (signed)
Inker(s): Jack Davis (signed)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Ben Oda
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Character(s): Signal Corps unit [unnamed Lieutenant; unnamed Sergeant; others also unnamed]; South Korean civilians; North Koreans (villains, many die)
Synopsis: A Signal Corps unit is shocked to see the local civilians pulling out of their homes just as the unit is ready to head for the bivouac area. But one of the young soldiers doesn't see the need of having a rifle in this type of unit and he recklessly just throws it around. Then the enemy snipers at a local schoolhouse make an attack, but are quickly taken care of.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #8 [1988] published January 1988
as Sambandstjenesten! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTwo-Fisted Tales #16 published July 1996
as Signal Corps! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Outpost!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jerry DeFuccio
Penciller(s): John Severin
Inker(s): Will Elder
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Ben Oda
Subject Matter
Genres: war
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In Content Item: FlagTwo-Fisted Tales #16 published July 1996
as Outpost! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Indian Sign

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Harvey Kurtzman
Inker(s): Harvey Kurtzman
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: war
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In Content Item: FlagTwo-Fisted Tales #16 published July 1996
as Indian Sign [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Combat Correspondence
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jerry DeFuccio
Penciller(s): Harvey Kurtzman (layouts)
Inker(s): Joe Kubert (signed)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Ben Oda
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Mike Holford (shell picker); Eddie (bartender); Rex Kingdom (oyster diver); Tarsier (Rex's pet animal)
Synopsis: Mike tells Eddie that he is through with shell picking as the grounds are just about cleaned out, when Rex Kingdom enters and announces that his schooner, the Kingdom Come, is going to try his hand in pearl diving. Mike and Rex joins forces and agree to split everything evenly. Rex does the diving and brings up a great pearl, but is attacked by a tiger shark on the second dive. Rex discovers soon after that Mike smeared Rex's ballast with ground salt-beef, which attracted the shark.
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In Content Item: FlagTwo-Fisted Tales #16 published July 1996
as Pearl Divers! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Pencil credit revised from Joe Kubert to Kurtzman layouts, per Thommy Burns in Fantagraphics' Man and Superman and Other Stories (2020).
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Atom Bomb!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harvey Kurtzman
Penciller(s): Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)
Inker(s): Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Ben Oda
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Character(s): Toshio Tagawa (death); Timo Tagawa (Toshio's wife, death); Toshio's mother; Toshio's children [Matsu (death); Kuni]
Synopsis: Toshio is being held by the Russians as a prisoner of war, but is able to write his mother to inform her of his situation. She receives the message on August 5, 1945, in her home town of Nagasaki: the day the atomic bomb is dropped on the city. The news is not good, as Toshio's wife and child have passed away from the effects of the bomb, yet one of Toshio's children survives.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #8 [1988] published January 1988
as Atombomben! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTwo-Fisted Tales #16 published July 1996
as Atom Bomb! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7

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