By Harvey Kurtzman
Two-Fisted Tales 19
Jan-Feb 1951
Reprinted in Corpse on the Imjin and Other Stories by Harvey Kurtzmsn
Slick Charlie kills a diamond courier in South America and takes his credentials. He gets away with it thanks to some help from Garcia, whom he later double crosses. After impersonating the diamond courier he takes a roundabout route to get to the Pacific coast. He gets caught by the Jivaro people. Smitty his new assistant is tortured to death while Charlie listens to his screams. Charlie avoids torture but not death at the hands of the Jivaro.
The twist at the end of this story wasn't the strongest. It felt a bit weak and tacked on at the end. The strength in this story is the way in which it is told up to that point.
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GCD: https://www.comics.org/issue/8669/
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