(July 1954)

EC, 1950 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.10 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
quarterly
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Fables Publishing Co. Inc.
Brand
EC An Entertaining Comic
Editing
Harvey Kurtzman (credited) (editor); John Severin (sourced) (editor); Colin Dawkins (sourced) (editor); Bill Gaines (credited as William M. Gaines) (managing editor)

Issue Notes

Editing credit per an interview in SQUA TRONT #11, which states "John Severin and [Colin] Dawkins ... in 1954, ... were the uncredited co-editors of Two-Fisted Tales #36-39"

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
John Severin (signed as SEVERIN)
Inks
John Severin (signed as SEVERIN)
Colors
?

Genre
adventure; history; war
Reprints
Keywords
British Indian Army; pith helmets; revolvers; rifles; Sikh battalions; sikhs; turbans

Lost City! (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
Colin Dawkins
Pencils
John Severin (signed as SEVERIN)
Inks
John Severin (signed as SEVERIN)
Colors
Marie Severin
Letters
Ben Oda

First Line of Dialogue or Text
His enemies call Ruby Ed Coffey "the world's most dangerous man"...
Genre
adventure
Reprints

Warpath! (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
Colin Dawkins
Pencils
John Severin (signed as JPS)
Inks
John Severin (signed as JPS)
Colors
Marie Severin
Letters
Ben Oda

First Line of Dialogue or Text
For days the little train tools westward throwing defiant puffs of smoke...
Genre
adventure; western-frontier
Reprints

Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton (Table of Contents: 3)

Two-Fisted Men / text article / 1 page (report information)

Script
Colin Dawkins
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Letters
typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Among all the strange and inspired geniuses...
Genre
biography
Reprints

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

Two-Fisted Talk / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Letters
typeset

Reprints

Indexer Notes

Letters from Wesley Hocker, John E. Domingue, Jack Laws, Eugene Spurgeon, Peter Callaway.

Bullets! (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
Colin Dawkins
Pencils
John Severin (signed as JPS)
Inks
John Severin (signed as JPS)
Colors
Marie Severin
Letters
Ben Oda

First Line of Dialogue or Text
The setting: the northwest frontier between India and Afghanistan...
Genre
adventure
Reprints

Stampede! (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
Colin Dawkins
Pencils
John Severin (signed as JPS)
Inks
John Severin (signed as JPS)
Colors
Marie Severin
Letters
Ben Oda

First Line of Dialogue or Text
A small herd grazes peacefully along the hillside...
Genre
adventure; western-frontier
Reprints
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
  2. 1. Lost City!
  3. 2. Warpath!
  4. 3. Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton
    Two-Fisted Men
  5. 4. [no title indexed]
    Two-Fisted Talk
  6. 5. Bullets!
  7. 6. Stampede!
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Chris Boyko
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Arthur Lortie
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Tony R. Rose
  • Jason Sacks
  • Jim Van Dore