Two-Fisted Tales #4

In "Gunfire!", a young man returns to his frontier town years after his father’s murder, driven by a promise etched in grief and a warrant he’s carried since childhood. Now a man of quiet resolve, Black Jack Slaughter comes home not for revenge, but to face the man who took his father’s life—armed only with justice and the weight of the past.

In the heat of a desperate campaign, General Aulus faces a stubborn British resistance that threatens to halt the Roman advance. With lives at stake, he warns Emperor Caesar that victory may come only through devastating losses—until Caesar and the enigmatic Posides devise a bold, lightning-fast plan to turn the tide in just one day.

Lt. Ben Russell, a fighter pilot hungry for glory, finds himself sidelined in an observation unit—far from the front lines he craves. When a mission goes catastrophically wrong and his fellow pilot Jack Ames is lost, Russell must confront the cost of his ambition in the face of war’s brutal reality.

In "The Last of the Mohicans!", the fate of a dying people rests on the shoulders of Uncas, the last of the Mohicans, as he stands alongside Hawkeye and Chief Chingachook in a desperate stand against the enemy forces led by the ruthless Chief Magua. With the British Army under threat and a captured white woman’s death igniting a final, furious clash, the line of the Mohicans faces its end in a battle that will decide more than just survival.

In "Mau Mau!", former big game hunter McBan finds himself sidelined as a safari guide for a film crew, only to be undermined when his client lets an educated Kikuyu named Limuru choose the crew. Tensions rise when McBan deliberately selects a distrustful mechanic, sparking a series of strange accidents deep in the jungle—though the real threat may be far more insidious than anyone suspects.

In "Carl Akeley!", a determined hunter pushes deep into the wilds of Africa, facing a terrifying bull elephant that leaves him gravely wounded. Though he survives and returns to the hunt again and again, each expedition brings new danger—until his final journey ends not with triumph, but with a quiet farewell to a dream he never saw realized: the African Hall in New York City.

In the skies over war-torn Europe, pilot Bill Stone finds his rivalry with fellow aviator Curry intensifying after overhearing Curry call someone "yellow"—a word that ignites a personal crusade for honor. As the two pilots clash in the air, their fierce competition takes on new stakes, testing courage and loyalty in the face of enemy fire.