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Title: TWO-FISTED TALES No. 18 * 1st Issue
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Publisher:EC [Indicia: Fables Publishing Co., Inc.]
Date Published: November-December, 1950
Description:

VG+ (4.5). Cover miscut with a bit of white showing at spine, mild spine stress, corners a bit soft, small nicks to right edge of front cover, 1/2" tear and a few small nicks to back cover, vertical crease to covers, some handling creases, dusty residue to back cover. Light tan pages. Cover: Harvey Kurtzman. Art: Harvey Kurtzman, Al Feldstein, Wally Wood, Johnny Craig (each of whom scripted his own story – this may be the only EC comic with all stories scripted by the artists). GPAnalysis: A 4.5 sold for $299 in 5/18.

First ish of Kurtzman's "He-Man Adventure book," which soon developed into a platform for the most challenging and realistic war comics of the era.

"Two-Fisted Tales was one of the first really exciting things that I got involved in. This was my first title that I'd invented. The concept was that we were going to do blood-and-thunder tales and rip-roaring high adventure. What I was trying to do could best be summed up by recalling the old Captain Easy and Wash Tubbs adventure strips by Roy Crane.... My schtick was always authenticity, adventure stories that went back to some kind of authenticity.... It had something to do with history and historical dates and places, and processes." – Harvey Kurtzman interview by E.B. Boatner, John Benson and Jay Kinney, recorded June 30, 1979, printed in The Complete Two-Fisted Tales. Russ Cochran: 1980.

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