Two-Fisted Tales #20 Gaines File pedigree 2/9 (EC, 1951) CGC NM/MT 9.8 Off-white to white pages....

Auction amount: $2,629.00

Sold: Aug 3, 2013

Two-Fisted Tales #20 Values

Publisher: EC, 1951

About Two-Fisted Tales #20

Third issue of the title. Harvey Kurtzman cover and art. Jack Davis and Wally Wood art.

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COVER DETAILS

Characters: Joe (death)

Pencils: Harvey Kurtzman

Inks: Harvey Kurtzman

Colors: Marie Severin

Letters: Ben Oda

Notes: Colorist and letterer credits by Craig Delich.

STORY DETAILS

(6 Stories)

Title: Massacred!

Characters: unnamed sergeant; South Korean soldiers [Yup-in-Pai (death); others unnamed]; Colonel Jun (villain, death); Li (villain, death); Kung (villain, death)

Synopsis: An American-South Korean patrol comes upon a group of massacred soldiers, all with their hands tied behind their backs with their own shoelaces and shot down. There is one who is still alive and he tells the sergeant what had happened: a North Korean officer had the Sergeant's men shot, then stripped of uniforms, which were then donned by the enemy troops. Unfortunately for them, they ran across a band of North Koreans who mis-took them for Americans and killed them all.

Pages: 8.000

Script: Harvey Kurtzman

Pencils: John Severin [as Severin] (signed)

Inks: Will Elder [as Elder] (signed)

Letters: Ben Oda

Notes: Much of the story is told in flashback.

Title: Devils in Baggy Pants!

Characters: Private Albert "Duck-Butt" Smith (death); Sergeant Purvis; U.S. soldiers [Cibelli (cameo, death); Hawkins (cameo, death); Green (cameo, death); rest unnamed] (many die); General Dwight D. Eisenhower (unnamed, cameo); The Nazis (villains, many die)

Synopsis: During the D-Day invasion in June of 1944, one Pvt. Smith, often considered by his Sergeant to be a coward, engaged himself in many battles during the campaign, including a battle in which he held off the Germans while the Sergeant was supposed to blow a bridge over which the enemy would attack. A Tiger tank, able to cross the bridge because it was not destroyed, killed the young Private while the Sergeant became a victim of battle fatigue and didn't complete his mission.

Pages: 7.000

Script: Harvey Kurtzman

Pencils: Wally Wood [as Woody] (signed)

Inks: Wally Wood [as Woody] (signed)

Letters: Ben Oda

Notes: Story takes place on D-Day. Parts of the story told in flashback.

Title: Thirst!

Characters: Louis Lafourche (villain, death)

Synopsis: Prisoner Lafourche had kept his word and escaped from Devil's Island, boarded a boat with food and water, and rode the currents toward safety in Brazil. He soon ran out of water but dared not drink the salty sea water, and on the 7th day, when he was rescued by a ship, he quickly died, not realizing that the water he was floating on contained fresh, not salt water!

Pages: 2.000

Pencils: ? (masthead illustration)

Inks: ? (masthead illustration)

Letters: typeset

Notes: Page count revision, art and colorist credits by Craig Delich.

Title: Observation Post!

Characters: Corporal Donald Deever (death)

Synopsis: Signal Corps Corporal Deever was inching his way up the side of a treacherous hill, seeking the enemy cannon that held an entire regiment at bay. When he discovered that it was actually a constantly moving self-propelled cannon, he radioed his forces to rain shells down on his position to put the gun out of commission, costing him his life.

Pages: 1.000

Pencils: ? (masthead illustration)

Inks: ? (masthead illustration)

Letters: typeset

Notes: Colorist and art credits by Craig Delich.

Title: Colt Single Action Army Revolver!

Characters: Pop (prospecting partner of Rufe, death); Pelado (gambler, death); Lem (gambler, death); unnamed gambler (death); Wiley (gambler); Jose Fillipa (a peon); Juan Fillipa (Jose's brother, death); Rufe (villain, death)

Synopsis: A Western badman kills his prospecting partner and then muses over what may happen to the remaining five bullets in his gun. Over time, the gun passes through several hands, then comes back into the possession of Rufe with one bullet remaining: a bullet that he then uses to kill himself!

Pages: 6.000

Script: Harvey Kurtzman

Pencils: Jack Davis

Inks: Jack Davis

Letters: Ben Oda

Title: Pirate Gold!

Characters: Sebastin (death?); Diego (death?); Thomas Tew (Sawkin's First Mate, death); Calico Jack Sharp (Sawkin's 2nd Mate, death); Ben Avery (Sawkin's Boatswain, death); Captain Ben Sawkins (villain, pirate, commander of the "Pandora", death)

Synopsis: Two seamen save a man adrift at sea who suffers from amnesia......a man searching for a Thomas Tew, the man's former shipmate that he believes knows the location of a casket of Spanish doubloons.

Pages: 7.000

Script: Harvey Kurtzman

Pencils: Harvey Kurtzman

Inks: Harvey Kurtzman

Letters: Ben Oda

Notes: Story occurs in the 18th Century.

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CGC Census Report*

Grade	NG	PG	CVR	0.5	1.0	1.5	1.8	2.0	2.5	3.0	3.5	4.0	4.5	5.0	5.5	6.0	6.5	7.0	7.5	8.0	8.5	9.0	9.2	9.4	9.6	9.8	9.9	10.0	Total
Universal	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	3	0	1	0	0	1	1	4	3	0	0	19
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
CGCxJSA	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Restored	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Total	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	1	3	0	1	0	0	1	1	4	3	0	0	20

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