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Issue: Two-Fisted Tales #41
Publication Date: February 1955
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Issues: #41 of 24 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagEC
Brand: object(PgSql\Result)#3 (0) { }
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)
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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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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, historical
First Line: If you ask me...this Mau Mau trouble is greatly overrated!
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In Content Item: FlagTwo-Fisted Tales #24 published July 1998
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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In Memoriam

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: This will be the last issue of Two-Fisted Tales.
Synopsis: Editorial about the cancelation of Two-Fisted Tales.
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Pages: 1
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Code of Honor!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
First Line: "If you believe you have been insulted..."
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In Content Item: FlagTwo-Fisted Tales #24 published July 1998
as Code of Honor! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
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Mau Mau!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): McBan (former pro big game hunter); Merrill Quantock (movie director); Hinga (a mechanic); Limuru (villain, death)
First Line: When the reed-buck's horn sounds in the dark night of Africa...
Synopsis: Former big game hunter McBan is now resigned to providing safaris for Regal Studios, but his latest client decides to allow an educated Kikuyu named Limuru to pick the safari crew. Jealous, McBan picks out a mechanic that no one else trusts and it seems that once the safari and film crew reach the jungle, mysterious accidents begin to occur. But all have guessed wrong.
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In Content Item: FlagTwo-Fisted Tales #24 published July 1998
as Mau Mau! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Kurtzman pencil credit added by Craig Delich, per "Master Race and Other Stories" volume.
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Carl Akeley!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, jungle, non-fiction
Character(s): Carl Akeley; President Theodore Roosevelt (cameo); a Swahili tracker; Dr. Elliot
First Line: Africa... 1910!
Synopsis: Hunting for bull elephants in darkest Africa, Ackeley is confronted by a monstrous bull elephant, which injures Ackeley big time. But he recovers and goes on five more expeditions against wild game, and being injured yet again. Although he recovers again from wounds suffered on the hunt, Ackeley never got to see his dream of The African Hall in New York City built before his death on November 17, 1926.
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In Content Item: FlagTwo-Fisted Tales #24 published July 1998
as Carl Akeley! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: A similar biography of Akeley found in Land Of The Lost #2.

Script revision from Wood to De Fuccio and Tatjana Wood pencil credit per Thommy Burns in Fantagraphic's volume "Atom Bomb and Other Stories, Illustrated by Wallace Wood" (2020).

Story occurs in 1910.
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Kearny

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Phil Kearney inherited a million dollars upon the death of his grandfather...
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Pages: 1
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Yellow!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, aviation, war
Character(s): Bill Stone (pilot); Curry (pilot); "Shorty" Winters (pilot, cameo, death); Captain Sault (commander); the Germans (villains, some die)
First Line: 1918's Yankee warbirds wore no parachutes...
Synopsis: Bill was a greater fighter pilot "in competition" for the most kills with fellow pilot Curry, until he overheard Curry state that someone was yellow. From that point on, the competition became more fierce.
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In Content Item: FlagTwo-Fisted Tales #24 published July 1998
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Pages: 7

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