Dates
- Cover date
- January-February 1953
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Blockade! · 6 pages
The famed battle between two ironclad warships during the Civil War is recounted and the battle that effectively ended the reign of the wooden warship.
- Campaign! · 8 pages
While General McClellan puts his recruits through practice maneuvers for the Peninsular Campaign, a veteran sergeant brags to the recruits that he has been in several key battles and a bullet has never touched him and never will. He accompanies the recruits in battle at Richmond, then other areas, and at last is felled, not by a bullet, but by fever!
- Donelson! · 7 pages
Four Union ironclads close in on the gem defense area for the South: Fort Donaldson, aiming to get the Rebels to show some respect for the Union. The battle is successful, although costly for the North.
- Air-Minded Fitz John · 1 pages
- Grant! · 7 pages
As Grant rides along, seemingly impervious to the bullets whizzing by and other elements of war, people reflect that, most of his life, Grant was a failure at everything he attempted to do. It was only in the element of war that he truly found his place in life.
Reprinted in
Two-Fisted Tales (1980), EC Classics (1985), Two-Fisted Tales (1994), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (2012), Two Fisted Tales (1953)