Two-Fisted Tales #20

In "Massacred!", a grim discovery unfolds when an American-South Korean patrol stumbles upon a field of dead soldiers—hands bound with their own shoelaces, victims of a brutal execution. The sole survivor, a wounded South Korean soldier, recounts how enemy troops disguised as his comrades were mistaken for Americans and slaughtered in turn. The story’s chilling twist lies in the betrayal of identity, as loyalty and survival hinge on a single, fatal misjudgment.

In the heat of the D-Day invasion, Pvt. Smith—dismissed by his sergeant as a coward—finds himself thrust into a desperate stand against overwhelming odds. When tasked with holding off a German advance while the sergeant prepares to destroy a vital bridge, Smith’s courage is tested in a brutal clash that leaves him caught between duty and fear, as a fearsome Tiger tank rolls through the wreckage of his sacrifice.

In the stark silence of the frontier, a lone outlaw contemplates the weight of his final bullet—five in his Colt Single Action Army, each one a promise of violence. As the gun passes through the hands of desperate men and forgotten souls, its legacy grows heavier with every trigger pull. When it finally returns to Rufe, the last bullet still unspent, the past comes full circle in a moment of quiet, irreversible choice.

A pair of seamen pull a mysterious man from the waves, his mind blank save for a single name: Thomas Tew. With no memory of who he is, only a desperate belief that Tew holds the key to a hidden casket of Spanish gold, he sets sail aboard the *Pandora*—a ship already haunted by its own dark past. As the crew's secrets rise like storm clouds, the search for treasure becomes a reckoning with the ghosts of men long dead.