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Series: Two-Fisted Tales

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Publisher: EC

Title: Two-Fisted Tales
Issue: 33
Page Count: 36
Publish Date: May-June 1953
Volume: 1
Contributors: Editor: Harvey Kurtzman

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Two-Fisted Tales 33
Owner: gojira

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Story Title: [ no title ] - cover
Pages:1
Pencils:Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)
Inks:Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)
Colors:Marie Severin
Letters:Ben Oda
Genre:war


Story Title: Signal Corps! - comic story
Pages:8
Pencils:Jack Davis (signed)
Inks:Jack Davis (signed)
Colors:Marie Severin
Letters:Ben Oda
Genre:war
Characters: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.


Story Title: Outpost! - comic story
Pages:7
Pencils:John Severin
Inks:Will Elder
Colors:Marie Severin
Letters:Ben Oda
Genre:War


Story Title: Indian Sign - text story
Pages:1
Pencils:Harvey Kurtzman
Inks:Harvey Kurtzman
Letters:typeset
Genre:western-frontier


Story Title: [ no title ] - letters page
Features:Combat Correspondence
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


Story Title: Pearl Divers! - comic story
Pages:6
Pencils:Harvey Kurtzman (layouts)
Inks:Joe Kubert (signed)
Colors:Marie Severin
Letters:Ben Oda
Genre:adventure
Characters: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.


Story Title: Atom Bomb! - comic story
Pages:7
Pencils:Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)
Inks:Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)
Colors:Marie Severin
Letters:Ben Oda
Genre:war
Characters: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.


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