Two Fisted Tales (1950 Superior) Canadian Edition comic books 1953
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Issue #31
Published 1953 (est.) by Superior Publishers.This item is not in stock at MyComicShop. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
Canadian Edition. Special Civil War issue. Cover by Harvey Kurtzman. Stories by Harvey Kurtzman. Art by John Severin, Bill Elder, Wally Wood, and Jack Davis. Harvey Kurtzman's legendary series enlisted top EC artists for gritty tales of war and adventure. A Civil War sergeant who brags that a bullet will never find him is proved a little too right, in a story with inks by MAD legend Will Elder. The military career of Union commander and future US president Ulysses Grant. The first battle between two "ironclads" signals the end of the wooden warship, with art by Wally Wood. Blockade!; Campaign!; Air-Minded Fitz John; Donelson!; Grant! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #33
Published 1953 (est.) by Superior Publishers.- Cover-to-cover hole punches with impact to story. Cover oxidation.
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Canadian Edition. Cover by Wally Wood. Stories by Harvey Kurtzman and Jerry De Fuccio. Art by John Severin, Bill Elder, Joe Kubert, Wally Wood, and Jack Davis. Harvey Kurtzman's legendary series enlisted top EC artists for gritty tales of war and adventure. A Signal Corps soldier learns why his outfit was issued firearms during a sudden skirmish. A sea captain encounters sharks and treachery while diving for pearls, in a rare art collaboration between two legends of comics, Kurtzman and Joe Kubert. In a Wally Wood story, a Japanese POW in Russia doesn't know his home in Nagasaki has been razed by the atomic bomb. Action-packed cover by Wally Wood. Signal Corps!; Outpost!; Indian Sign; Pearl Divers!; Atom Bomber! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #34
Published 1953 (est.) by Superior Publishers.This item is not in stock at MyComicShop. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
Canadian Edition. Cover by Jack Davis. Stories by Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Davis, Wally Wood, and Jerry De Fuccio. Art by George Evans, John Severin, Marie Severin, Wally Wood, and Jack Davis. Harvey Kurtzman's legendary series enlisted top EC artists for gritty tales of war and adventure. An outlaw takes over a Western town but doesn't reckon on an elderly homesteader. (This story was written and drawn by Jack Davis while Harvey Kurtzman was busy shaping the early MAD.) French pilot Georges Guynemer becomes a legendary fighter ace during World War I. During feudal times, a charge of murder leads to a duel, with art by Wally Wood. Action-packed cover by Wood. Betsy!; Trial by Arms!; Salty Speech; En Crapaudine!; Guynemer! NOTE: This issue was reprinted by East Coast Comics with a $1 cover a 1970's copyright date (see E.C. Classic Reprints #9). These and other changes make the reprint easy to distinguish from the original which has a 10-cent cover price and a 1950's publication date. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.
