Very pleased to have got a few books in this week that finished off another run. Back in June of 08 I read a critique of atomic age comics which mentioned that Two-Fisted tales and Frontline Combat were the best war comics ever in the author's opinion. So in June 08 I bought one on eBay to see (Two-Fisted #26)... six years later, here we are, all done. The Frontline group is earlier in this journal. Here's the Two-Fisted run from #18 (1) to #41 (24).
These are great comics. The only ones that are a bit sub par are the 36 - 39 "New Two-Fisted Tales" run, where Kurtzman stepped aside as editor for John Severin. Still a few excellent stories, but also some real clunkers. Judging by how the title and style reverted for the last couple of issues, the readers at the time might have felt the same.
My favourites are the two Civil War issues (31 and 35), but all of the Korean War issues (19 - 31) have some powerful stuff in them. My favourite single story is probably the Indo-China War Dien Bien Thu in #40.
Thanks for reading. I'll have another complete group shot to share in a week or so when the last book arrives from the US. It's a slightly different genre to this one!