Crime SuspenStories comic books issue 1

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Reprints of classic EC stories. Cover art by Johnny Craig. William M. Gaines (1922-1992) illustration by Russ Cochran. "Murder May Boomerang," script and art by Johnny Craig; Nearly inseparable, a father and son did everything in life together until that one day when a prisoner from a nearby penitentiary discovers the pair's cabin, where he steals clothing and nearly beats the father to death. "Death's Double-Cross," script by Bill Gaines (co-plot) and Albert B. Feldstein (co-plot, script), art by Wally Wood; Ruth was bored and lonely; Her two-year marriage to John was missing something: love, and she found it in John's twin brother. "Reward!" text story by Albert B. Feldstein. "A Snapshot of Death!", script by Bill Gaines (co-plot) and Albert B. Feldstein (co-plot, script), art by Graham Ingels; A woman enters a pool room and hires a man to kill a lady, whose picture she provides to him; Imagine his surprise when he notes that the photo is of the woman wanting the crime committed. "High Tide!", script and art by Harvey Kurtzman; Four men on a mail boat leave the infamous Mephisto Prison and soon hear by radio of the escape of one of the prisoners; When the boat's engine, clogged with sand, brings the craft to a halt a ways off shore, all fingers begin to point to each other as the culprit. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $1.50.

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Cover art by Johnny Craig. "Murder May Boomerang," script and art by Johnny Craig; Nearly inseparable, a father and son did everything in life together until that one day when a prisoner from a nearby penitentiary discovers the pair's cabin, where he steals clothing and nearly beats the father to death. "Death's Double-Cross," script by Bill Gaines (co-plot) and Albert B. Feldstein (co-plot, script), art by Wally Wood; Ruth was bored and lonely; Her two-year marriage to John was missing something: love, and she found it in John's twin brother. "Reward!" text story by Albert B. Feldstein. "A Snapshot of Death!", script by Bill Gaines (co-plot) and Albert B. Feldstein (co-plot, script), art by Graham Ingels; A woman enters a pool room and hires a man to kill a lady, whose picture she provides to him; Imagine his surprise when he notes that the photo is of the woman wanting the crime committed. "High Tide!", script and art by Harvey Kurtzman; Four men on a mail boat leave the infamous Mephisto Prison and soon hear by radio of the escape of one of the prisoners; When the boat's engine, clogged with sand, brings the craft to a halt a ways off shore, all fingers begin to point to each other as the culprit. 36 pgs., full color.

PRINTING NOTE: Some copies have Vol. 1 No. 1 printed above a redacted line in the indicia (before the indicia was corrected). Apparently, EC originally intended to print this issue as Vault of Horror #15. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

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Volume 1 - 1st printing. Collects Crime Suspenstories (1950-1955 E.C. Comics) #1-6. Written by Johnny Craig, William Gaines, Al Feldstein, Harvey Kurtzman, and Edgar Allen Poe. Art by Johnny Craig, Wally Wood, Graham Ingels, Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Kamen, Jack Davis, and George Roussos. Cover art by Johnny Craig. Introduction by Grant Geissman. Foreword by Max Allen Collins. In the years before the Comics Code, no comic mined the noir vein with more shocking impact and creative skill than EC Comics' CRIME SUSPENSTORIES. Featuring vivid tales of larceny, adultery, and homicide by comics legends Al Feldstein, Johnny Craig, Graham Ingels, Wally Wood, Jack Davis, Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Kamen, and more, CRIME SUSPENSTORIES remains a lurid landmark in the history of comics, and the EC Archives presents these scandalous stories in all their brazen brilliance. This value-priced volume includes the original stories, ads, text pieces, and letters. Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 216 pages, full color. Cover price $19.99.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. Collects Crime Suspenstories (1950-1954 E.C. Comics) #1-5. EC's Crime SuspenStories featured some of the best crime comics work ever. If you're into Stray Bullets, Sin City or any of today's crime comics, wait until you get a load of these classics! Another great way to collect all of these EC classics is the handy Annuals. Softcover, 150 pages, full color. Cover price $8.95.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. Collects Crime Suspenstories (1950-1955 E.C. Comics) #1-6.

Road to Perdition author Max Allan Collins re-introduces us to the thrilling and mysterious first volume of Crime SuspenStories - six full issues and 24 complete stories by the likes of Al Feldstein, Johnny Craig, Harvey Kurtzman. Wally Wood, Jack Kamen, Graham Ingels, Jack Davis, George Roussos and others, originally published between 1950 and 1951!

Hardcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 216 pages, full color.

NOTE: Published by Gemstone.

Cover price $49.95.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. Collects Crime Suspenstories (1950-55 E.C. Comics) #1-5.

Notes and comments by Max Allan Collins.

Hardcover, 9 1/2-in. x 12 1/2-in., 174 pages, B&W.