Two-Fisted Tales #20

In "Massacred!", a South Korean patrol stumbles upon a brutal scene: a group of soldiers, hands bound with their own shoelaces, executed in cold blood. The sole survivor, a wounded man clinging to life, recounts how his comrades were betrayed—first by a North Korean officer who dressed them in stolen uniforms, then abandoned to a fate worse than death when they were mistaken for Americans by their own side.

In the heat of the D-Day invasion, Private Albert "Duck-Butt" Smith—dismissed by Sergeant Purvis as a coward—finds himself thrust into a desperate fight to hold a bridge against a relentless German advance. With the weight of duty and the chaos of war pressing in, his courage is tested in ways no one expected, even as the battle claims lives on both sides.

In a stark tale of fate and consequence, a Western outlaw’s act of betrayal sets a deadly chain in motion when he kills his prospecting partner, Pop, and contemplates the fate of the remaining bullets in his Colt Single Action Army Revolver. As the gun passes through the hands of doomed gamblers and a grieving peon, each encounter echoes with the weight of violence—until the final bullet finds its way back to Rufe, the man who began it all, and claims him in the end.

In a sun-scorched tale of sea-faring mystery, two seamen rescue a man adrift with no memory of his past—only a desperate belief that a long-dead shipmate, Thomas Tew, holds the key to a hidden casket of Spanish doubloons. As whispers of buried treasure and forgotten pirate legends swirl, the survivor’s fragmented past begins to surface, dragging the crew of the *Pandora* into a reckoning with ghosts of the high seas.