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Issue: Two-Fisted Tales #22
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Publisher: FlagEC
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Indicia Publisher: Fables Publishing Co., Inc.
On Sale Date: 03/28/1951
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
Original Artwork
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Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
?
Harvey Kurtzman
Harvey Kurtzman
Marie Severin
Ben Oda
Subject Matter
adventure
Reprinting
FlagTwo-Fisted Tales #5 published October 1993
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
FlagEC Archives: Two-Fisted Tales #1 published February 2007
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
FlagEC Archives: Two-Fisted Tales #1 published February 2007
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Korean War
Enemy Contact!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Harvey Kurtzman
Jack Davis (signed)
Jack Davis (signed)
Marie Severin
Ben Oda
Subject Matter
war
unnamed American Lieutenant; unnamed American medic; American soldiers [Snuffy (death); Fritz (death); Dalrymple (death); Mississippi]; Communist soldiers (villains, many die)
An American patrol is attacked by Communist soldiers, and during a lull in the battle, a U.S. soldier comes down with acute appendicitis. A medic manages to make his way to the soldiers, and, getting instructions from a doctor over the radio, successfully completes the operation. Then an enemy mortar attack occurs, but soon U.S. planes arrive and wipe out the enemy forces. Unfortunately, the young soldier, newly operated on, dies in the attack.
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FlagTwo-Fisted Tales #5 published October 1993
as Enemy Contact! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagEC Archives: Two-Fisted Tales #1 published February 2007
as Enemy Contact! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Dying City!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Harvey Kurtzman
Alex Toth
Alex Toth
Marie Severin
Ben Oda
Subject Matter
war
Kim's grandfather; Sun Yoo (Kim's sister, flashback, death); Kim's father (flashback, death); Kim's mother (flashback, death); Kim (villain, North Korean soldier, death); North Korean soldiers (villains)
An idealistic young Korean joins the North Korean army while his family is left behind to deal with the day to day life during wartime.
Reprinting
FlagIskalde Grøss #8 [1988] published January 1988
as Døende by! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagTwo-Fisted Tales #5 published October 1993
as Dying City! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagEC Archives: Two-Fisted Tales #1 published February 2007
as Dying City! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagEC Sampler - Free Comic Book Day #[nn] published May 2008
as Dying City! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Inker credit revised from Kurtzman to Toth per Archive edition.

Much of the story is told in flashback.
Siege

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Harvey Kurtzman
Harvey Kurtzman
Marie Severin ?
typeset
Subject Matter
war
Duke Cosimo (villain, Duke of Reggio, death); unnamed Generalissimo (villain)
Outside of the garrison of Orlando, Duke Cosimo, astride his gallant white charger, orders his generalissimo to attack the seemingly impregnable enemy position and be inside it within the hour. Time and time again the attacks failed. But during the last attack, the Duke fell from his horse, having choked to death on an olive pit. His men, called women by the Duke, calmly placed the Duke's body on a catapult and launched it at the enemy fortification, his body landing within the fort......all within an hour.
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FlagTwo-Fisted Tales #5 published October 1993
FlagEC Archives: Two-Fisted Tales #1 published February 2007
as Siege [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
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Colorist and art credits by Craig Delich.

Story occurs in 1369.
[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
typeset
Subject Matter
Combat Correspondence
Letters of comment from Roger Curtis, St. Paul, MN; Norman St. Peter, Pittsfield, MA; Cpl. Walter Kosneki, San Francisco, CA; and Nancy Cash, Louisville, KY.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
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Massacre at Agincourt!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Harvey Kurtzman
Wally Wood [as Wallace A. Wood] (signed)
Wally Wood [as Wallace A. Wood] (signed)
Marie Severin
Ben Oda
Subject Matter
historical, war
Edouard Rene de Gascony (French commander, death); King Henry (British commander)
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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FlagTwo-Fisted Tales #5 published October 1993
as Massacre at Agincourt! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagEC Archives: Two-Fisted Tales #1 published February 2007
as Massacre at Agincourt! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
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Story occurs on October 25, 1415, also referred to as St. Crispin's Day.
Chicken!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Harvey Kurtzman
John Severin [as Severin] (signed)
Will Elder [as Elder] (signed)
Marie Severin
Ben Oda
Subject Matter
war
Lieutenant Robert Hall (death); Captain Harold Black (death)
Lt. Hall is being dressed down by his superior, all over not enforcing discipline on his troops while they are in combat, as well as giving advice to the Captain that was unasked for. When the Captain's foolish actions lead to the deaths of all the members of his squad, Hall is ordered to go back, yet again, for another squad of men. But Hall is told that the Marines will shell the area soon, and Hall says that he will will go back and get the Captain, but the Captain will not let him speak and shoots him down....but with a devastating aftermath.
Reprinting
FlagTwo-Fisted Tales #5 published October 1993
as Chicken! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagEC Archives: Two-Fisted Tales #1 published February 2007
as Chicken! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #10 published August 2014
as [untitled] [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]page 5, panel 6
FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #10 published August 2014
as Chicken! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #10 published August 2014
as [untitled] [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]page 4, panel 4
FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #10 published August 2014
as [untitled] [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]page 4, panel 5
 
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