Entertaining Comics: War and Fighting Men Two-Fisted Tales #40 (1954/55)
 
Cover by George Evans. Stories by John Severin, John Putnam, Jerry DeFuccio, George Evans, Jack Davis and James Fenimore Cooper. Art by John Severin and George Evans. Harvey Kurtzman's legendary series enlisted top EC artists for gritty tales of war and adventure. A fighter pilot's new assignment doesn't provide him the glory he craves. One of the earliest battles in the 20th century's long-running wars in Viet Nam unfolds at Dien Bien Phu, as French colonial forces are decisively driven out of Indochina. An adaptation of The Last of the Mohicans, the classic frontier adventure by James Fenimore Cooper. Dien Bien Phu!; Squalus; Flaming Coffins!; The Last of the Mohicans!; Sharpshooter! 36 pages, Full Color
 
Two-Fisted Tales is an anthology war comic published bi-monthly by EC Comics in the early 1950s. The title originated in 1950 when Harvey Kurtzman suggested to William Gaines that they publish an adventure comic. Kurtzman became the editor of Two-Fisted Tales, and with the dawn of the Korean War, he soon narrowed the focus to war stories. The title was a companion comic to Frontline Combat, and stories Kurtzman wrote for both books often displayed an anti-war attitude. It returned to adventure-themed stories in issues #36 through #39, co-edited by John Severin and Colin Dawkins, with a cover-title change to The New Two-Fisted Tales.
 
The bimonthly title ran 24 issues, numbered 18–41, from 1950 to 1955. In 1952, EC published Two-Fisted Annual which had no new stories but instead bound together past issues of Two-Fisted Tales with a new cover by Kurtzman. The same procedure was repeated in 1953 for an annual with a new Jack Davis cover.
 
Years after its demise, Two-Fisted Tales was reprinted in its entirety and was adapted to television.