Crime SuspenStories #2 Gaines File Copy Pedigree 4/11 (EC, 1950) CGC NM/MT 9.8 Off-white to white pages....

Auction amount: $16,800.00

Sold: Sep 15, 2024

Crime SuspenStories #2 Values

Publisher: EC, 1950

About Crime SuspenStories #2

Cover by Johnny Craig. Story art by Craig (two stories), Graham Ingels, and Jack Kamen.

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COVER DETAILS

Pencils: Johnny Craig (signed)

Inks: Johnny Craig (signed)

Colors: Marie Severin

Letters: Jim Wroten

Notes: Colorist and letterer credits by Craig Delich.

Reprints: Weird Fantasy (EC, 1950 series) #16 (November-December 1950)

STORY DETAILS

(6 Stories)

Title: Dead-Ringer

Characters: Charles Roberts (millionaire, death); Terry Roberts (Charle's wife); Paul (Terry's lover); Charle's law partners; Robert's look-alike (villain, death); trio of crooks (villains)

Synopsis: A petty thief learns that his virtual double, a millionaire, is an amnesia victim residing at a local sanitarium, and plans to somehow get into the sanitarium, dispose of the rich man and take his place, then suddenly come out of his amnesia state, and assume the man's identity. But all is not as rosy as the man supposes......and pays for it with his life!

Pages: 8.000

Script: Johnny Craig (signed)

Pencils: Johnny Craig (signed)

Inks: Johnny Craig (signed)

Letters: Jim Wroten

Notes: Cover story.

Title: A Moment of Madness!

Characters: Dr. Ralph Bently (brain surgeon, death); Diane Sanger (Bentley's sweetheart); a hobo (death); Cargile (a doctor)

Synopsis: A noted brain surgeon is experiencing blackouts, which cause him to unconsciously commit acts of violence during his blackouts.

Pages: 6.000

Script: Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)

Pencils: Graham Ingels

Inks: Graham Ingel

Letters: Jim Wroten

Title: Perfect Murder!

Characters: Schumacher (villain, partner of Flenson, death); Flenson (villain, partner of Schumacher, death)

Synopsis: Flenson confronts his partner Schumacher, who had bilking their company out of money for months, and informs the man that he was going to commit suicide. Before that happens, Schumacher dies of a heart attack.......but the dead partner unwittingly gets his revenge!

Pages: 1.000

Script: Al Feldstein

Pencils: ? (spot illustration)

Inks: ? (spot illustration)

Letters: typeset

Title: Face-to-Face

Characters: Monsieur Phillipe (death); Haywood; man with a scar (villain)

Synopsis: Haywood is to deliver a brief case of papers to a Monsieur Phillipe, whom had never seen. When the transfer was to be made, Haywood discovered too late he had made a grievous error!

Pages: 2.000

Script: Al Feldstein

Pencils: ? (spot illustration)

Inks: ? (spot illustration)

Letters: typeset

Title: The Corpse in the Crematorium

Characters: Al Gregory (an artist); Jane Walton (Al's fiancee)

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.

Pages: 7.000

Script: Johnny Craig (signed)

Pencils: Johnny Craig (signed)

Inks: Johnny Craig (signed)

Letters: Jim Wroten

Notes: Story foreshadows a 1955 Alfred Hitchcock Presents TV episode titled "Breakdown", wherein Joseph Cotton plays a paralyzed man lying on a morgue slab mistaken for a dead body (episode directed by Hitchcock).

Title: Contract for Death

Characters: Dr. Robert Cordoz (death); Vincent Fenton (suicide prone man, death); Ann (Fenton's girlfriend)

Synopsis: A doctor, conducting experiments on the human brain, comes across a man attempting suicide, and offers him $5000 not to do so........for one month. The contract is signed and money given, and the man goes out and lives it up. But he meets a girl and then Vincent tries to renege on the deal....with dire consequences: for both the man and the doctor!

Pages: 7.000

Script: Al Feldstein ?

Pencils: Jack Kamen (signed)

Inks: Jack Kamen (signed)

Letters: Jim Wroten

Notes: Plot adapted from Damon Runyon's story, "A Very Honorable Guy", featured as part of the 1989 film "Bloodhounds of Broadway".

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CGC Census Report*

Grade	0.5	1.0	1.5	1.8	2.0	2.5	3.0	3.5	4.0	4.5	5.0	5.5	6.0	6.5	7.0	7.5	8.0	8.5	9.0	9.2	9.4	9.6	9.8	9.9	10.0	Total
Universal	1	0	0	1	1	0	4	2	3	1	5	3	6	8	5	4	4	2	0	2	0	4	7	0	0	63
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Restored	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4
Total	1	0	0	2	2	0	4	2	3	1	6	4	6	8	5	4	4	2	0	2	0	4	7	0	0	67

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