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263:'s style. Whereas Feldstein allowed his artists to draw the story however they chose, Kurtzman prepared detailed layouts for each story and required his artists to follow them exactly. Kurtzman's writing tended to use less text than Feldstein's, which enabled the two war titles to be hand-lettered rather than machine-lettered like the remainder of EC's titles. Kurtzman was dedicated to making the stories as historically accurate as possible and along with assistant 547:
segments, although Kurtzman's war-adventure stories had never been introduced by a host. Two of the stories, "Showdown" and "King of the Road", were original scripts and not adaptations from EC (although "Showdown" did share a title with a story from issue 37). The third story, "Yellow", was adapted from a story written by
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of being wartime propaganda. On the contrary, the magazine was a brutally honest look at battles and wars throughout history. Kurtzman, who had been drafted in 1942, knew warfare firsthand, and he was outraged by the gung-ho war comics that made war look like a glorious thing. In his stories, there
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and others. Apart from an opening montage of covers from the comic book and use of comic's logo, the movie had little connection with Kurtzman's creation. In imitation of EC's horror books, the anthology drama featured ghostly gunfighter Mr. Rush (Bill Sadler) as a host and a device to connect the
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Kurtzman wrote the majority of the book's stories from 1950 through 1953, with Jerry DeFuccio contributing one-page text stories and the occasional regular story as well. Colin Dawkins provided the writing for the majority of the stories for 1954 and 1955, with contributions from Davis, Evans and
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When I thought of doing a war book, the business of what to say about war was very important to me and was uppermost in my mind, because I did then feel very strongly about not wanting to say anything glamorous about war, and everything that went before
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was changed from bi-monthly to quarterly publication. As sales continued to drop, Gaines was forced to fold the title. Over its four-year span, the comic ran for 24 issues, ending with issue 41, in February 1955.
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were no heroes—just soldiers trapped in situations beyond their control. Often, his stories weren't about soldiers at all, focusing instead on the lives of innocent people scarred by war."
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put a lot of research into each story. As a result, where Feldstein took generally about a week to complete each issue he edited, Kurtzman took approximately a month.
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attitude. Canadian journalist Mitchell Brown wrote about the impact and influence of Kurtzman's approach: "Unlike other magazines of the day, no one could accuse
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had glamorized war. Nobody had done anything on the depressing aspects of war, and this, to me, was such a dumb—it was a terrible disservice to the children.
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A series of special issues dedicated to the Civil War included issues 31 and 35 (whose cover depicts an apparently pro-Confederacy message) of
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contained a number of stories taking place in historical settings, including the Civil War, the Revolutionary War and ancient Rome.
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has been reprinted several times. It was fully reprinted in a series of four black-and-white hardcover books by publisher
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Dec. 1950) and ran 24 issues through #41 (March 1955). Wholesaler problems had caused Gaines to consider canceling
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Severin. John Putnam, who scripted "Dien Bien Phu!" (#40), later became the art director of EC's
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with a new cover by Kurtzman. The same procedure was repeated in 1953 for an annual with a new
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The bimonthly title ran 24 issues, numbered 18–41, from 1950 to 1955. In 1952, EC published
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series. Two volumes of a projected four were published before the project fell into limbo.
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resumed publication of the series in 2014, releasing the fourth and final volume in 2019.
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attitude. It returned to adventure-themed stories in issues #36 through #39, co-edited by
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adopted the name Two Fisted Tales as a pseudonym under which to produce primarily
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television series ("Yellow" was exhibited as an episode in the year before).
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In addition to contemporary stories about the Korean War and World War II,
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in 1980. Between October 1992 and July 1998, Cochran, in association with
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Artists who contributed included Kurtzman and other EC regulars such as
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then reverted to the correct numbering for the remainder of its run.
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that they publish an adventure comic. Kurtzman became the editor of
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which had no new stories but instead bound together past issues of
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The stories Kurtzman wrote for this title often displayed an
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was reprinted in its entirety and was adapted to television.
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and illustrated by Jack Davis for the first issue of EC's
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The Golden Age of Comic Books podcast (January 18, 2006)
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in the early 1950s. The title originated in 1950 when
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Index

Two-Fisted Tales (album)

Publisher
EC Comics
war comic
EC Comics
Harvey Kurtzman
William Gaines
Korean War
Frontline Combat
anti-war
John Severin
Colin Dawkins
Jack Davis
The Haunt of Fear
cover-dated

Al Feldstein
Jerry DeFuccio
Mad
Russ Cochran
The Complete EC Library
Gemstone Publishing
EC Annuals
EC Archives
Dark Horse
1993
Dark Horse Comics

Harvey Kurtzman

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