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Issue: Two-Fisted Tales #19
Publication Date: January 1951
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Issues: #19 of 24 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagEC
Brand: object(PgSql\Result)#3 (0) { }
Indicia Publisher: Fables Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 09/26/1950
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 7 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is the publication date reported in 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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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): Harvey Kurtzman (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: war
First Line: Enemy soldier!
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In Content Item: FlagTwo-Fisted Tales #19 published February 1951
as "Enemy soldier!" [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagTwo-Fisted Tales #2 published January 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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War Story!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Character(s): Dave Hunzer (flashback, death); Duke Hunzer (flashback); Colonel Hishomura (villain, death); The Japanese (villains, many die, flashback); North Koreran soldiers (villains, some die)
First Line: June, 1950!
Synopsis: A new soldier is involved in a fire fight with the enemy and believes that he has killed his first man though the enemy was already dead. Visibly shaken, he considers himself a killing machine, but his sergeant tells him a real story of killers that involves two brothers in World War 2.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTwo-Fisted Tales #2 published January 1993
as War Story! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEC Archives: Two-Fisted Tales #1 published February 2007
as War Story! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #10 published August 2014
as War Story! [Story on Interior Page(s)]Reprinted in black and white.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Story set in June of 1950.

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.
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Escape

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): unnamed girl; Florio (casino owner, mention only); Farnum; armed robber (villain, one of Florio's torpedos)
First Line: Farnum watched the girl in the slinky gown...
Synopsis: Farnum watched the girl win over $15,000 at the roulette table and followed her to the cashier, then outside where he spotted one of casino owner Florio's boys awaiting her. Saving her and her money from harm, Farnum told the girl to get into his car and they made haste for which she was very thankful.
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In Content Item: FlagTwo-Fisted Tales #2 published January 1993
as Escape [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEC Archives: Two-Fisted Tales #1 published February 2007
as Escape [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Page count correction by Craig Delich.

Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin (see Indexer Notes for “War Story!,” above).
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Decoy

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): U.N. Police; unnamed girl; unnamed International Press Service employee
First Line: He was safe here on the train.
Synopsis: An International Press Service employee, well aware that the U.N. police were on his trail to return him to behind the iron curtain, breathed a sigh of relief as he saw a girl being wrestled to the ground by the police that were chasing him. All he needed was 3 more hours and he would be safe from their clutches. Unfortunately, the girl proved to be a paid decoy to lure him from the safety of the train, and she succeeded in conking him over the head. But the police never reached him because he was able to fight off three assailants and make good his escape.
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In Content Item: FlagTwo-Fisted Tales #2 published January 1993
as Decoy [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEC Archives: Two-Fisted Tales #1 published February 2007
as Decoy [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin (see Indexer Notes for “War Story!,” above).
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Jivaro Death!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): Harvey Kurtzman ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Senor Churchill (diamond messenger, death); Churchill's bodyguard (death); Slick Charlie (villain, death); Garcia (villain, death); Smitty (villain, Charlie's con man, death); The Jivaros (villains, head shrinkers)
First Line: In our next two-fisted adventure we set the scene in the Amazon river basin, South America!
Synopsis: Slick Charlie and Garcia waylay a diamond messenger and his bodyguard, assume their identities and take possession of $500,000 in uncut diamonds. Disposing of Garcia, Charlie and fellow con man Smitty, on their way back to the States with the swag, choose to go through the dangerous Jivaro country to throw off the police.....not their best decision.
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In Content Item: FlagTwo-Fisted Tales #2 published January 1993
as Jivaro Death! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEC Archives: Two-Fisted Tales #1 published February 2007
as Jivaro Death! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: 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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Flight from Danger!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Professor Franck (death); Lisa (Franck's daughter); Captain Jim Turner (Army intelligence agent); Herman Gault (underground agent); East Germans (villains)
First Line: In the woods surrounding the small village of Bremerhaven...
Synopsis: An American Army intelligence officer, sent to rescue a scientist who has invented a hydrogen bomb, is shot down, but in the ensuing struggle, the Professor is wounded and eventually dies. The East Germans are seeking out the Professor, so Captain Turner gets Lisa to a plane and escapes to America with her.
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In Content Item: FlagTwo-Fisted Tales #2 published January 1993
as Flight From Danger! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEC Archives: Two-Fisted Tales #1 published February 2007
as Flight From Danger! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin (see Indexer Notes for “War Story!,” above).
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Brutal Capt. Bull!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Jeremiah Pringle; Captain Bull (villain); unnamed Bosun (villain); Donklin (villain)
First Line: This is the fashion in which Master Jeremiah Pringle enlisted in the service of his majesty, the King of England!
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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTwo-Fisted Tales #2 published January 1993
as Brutal Capt. Bull! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEC Archives: Two-Fisted Tales #1 published February 2007
as Brutal Capt. Bull! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin (see Indexer Notes for “War Story!,” above).

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