Two-Fisted Tales #4

In the tense aftermath of a brutal ambush, a lone American soldier clings to the belief that his luck—marked by a small kewpie doll in his helmet—has kept him alive. But when he realizes he’s wearing another man’s helmet, the truth of his survival begins to unravel, leaving him haunted by the cost of fortune in war.

In "Pigs of the Roman Empire," a hardened Roman officer named Decius faces a reckoning after refusing mercy to a dying slave who fought bravely in the arena. When the Vandals threaten his outpost, Decius must lead his men into battle, but his past cruelty may prove to be his undoing.

In the freezing grip of wartime Arctic waters, the freighter *Bunker Hill* pushes through brutal seas on the perilous Murmansk Run. Amid the crew’s tense vigilance, a weary seaman named Bragg, ever the source of friction with his constant complaints, takes watch under the cover of night—only to seek warmth and a cigarette, unaware his small lapse could doom them all.

In "Search!", Joe, an American-born son of Italian parents, returns to his homeland during the Italian Campaign, driven by a personal mission to find his brother Mario—someone who never got to leave Italy for a new life in America. As he travels through the war-torn landscape, his journey becomes a quiet, poignant quest through memory and loss, searching for a brother whose fate remains just out of reach.