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Issue Details

Issue #16
Published February-March 1950
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing William M. Gaines

Cover Details

Genre Crime
Pencils Johnny Craig
Inks Johnny Craig
Reprinted In Crime Patrol (Gemstone, 2000 series) #10 (January 2001)

7 page story "The Corpse In the Crematorium"

Synopsis A man subject to cataleptic fits is brought to a crematorium while his wife-to-be searches frantically for him. She fails to find him before he is scheduled for cremation, but what saves him is that the attendant notices beads of sweat forming on his brow before the gaping maw of the blast furnace.
Genre Horror
Script Al Feldstein
Pencils Johnny Craig
Inks Johnny Craig
Reprinted In Crime SuspenStories (EC, 1950 series) #2 (December 1950/January 1951); in Crime SuspenStories (Russ Cochran, 1992 series) #2 (Februrary 1993); in Crime Patrol (Gemstone, 2000 series) #10 (January 2001)

7 page story "Trapped In the Tomb"

Synopsis An explorer plots to kill another explorer by sealing him in an Egyptian tomb. His love interest foils the plot by fighting and scratching the bad guy for a note written in the missing man's handwriting. A third explorer realizes the fink is up to no good when he notices the facial scratches but the would-be murderer denies having seen the girl. The third explorer follows the evil doer and overpowers him when he attempts to toss the subdued girl over a cliff and then they rescue the man trapped in the tomb, who it turns out, is still just barely alive.
Genre Horror
Script Al Feldstein
Pencils George Roussos
Inks George Roussos
Reprinted In Crime Patrol (Gemstone, 2000 series) #10 (January 2001)

1 page text story "A Bottle of Murder"

Genre Horror
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration.
Reprinted In Crime Patrol (Gemstone, 2000 series) #10 (January 2001)

6 page story "The Graveyard Feet"

Synopsis A mad doctor cuts off the body parts of his victims in order to experiment with transplants. One of the recipients turns out to be a reporter who finds that the feet have a will of their own and know how to kick box. Eventually, they lead him back to the doctor and once the cell doors of his intended victims are opened, they beat the doctor to death. The reporter's feet go back to being well-behaved now that their previous owner has been avenged.
Genre Horror
Script Al Feldstein
Pencils John Alton
Inks John Alton
Reprinted In Crime Patrol (Gemstone, 2000 series) #10 (January 2001)

1 page text story "Voodoo Vendetta"

Genre Horror
Letters typeset
Reprinted In Crime Patrol (Gemstone, 2000 series) #10 (January 2001)

8 page story "The Spectre In the Castle"

Characters The Crypt Keeper (host)
Synopsis A man inherits an estate on the condition that he survive a few nights in it since it is supposedly haunted by a ghost that has been known to kill a relative at times. He accepts the risk, and after he arrives odd things begin to happen, but it turns out not to have anything to do with the supernatural, but a greedy probate lawyer attempting to do away with him to gain control of the estate.
Genre Horror
Script Al Feldstein
Pencils Al Feldstein
Inks Al Feldstein
Reprinted In Crime Patrol (Gemstone, 2000 series) #10 (January 2001)