Fight Against Crime #12 (Story Comics, 1953) CGC VF 8.0 Off-white to white pages....

Auction amount: $2,640.00

Sold: Jan 16, 2022

Fight against Crime #12 Values

Publisher: Story Comics, 1953

About Fight against Crime #12

Overstreet notes, "#9-21 contain violent, gruesome stories with blood, dismemberment, decapitation, EC style plot twists..." Contains the morphine drug story "The Big Dope".

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COVER DETAILS

Pencils: Dick Beck ?

Inks: Dick Beck ?

STORY DETAILS

(4 Stories)

Title: Hollywood Death Trap!

Synopsis: Hollywood diva Lydia Holmes is blackmailed by a gangster friend from her past. Dan Blakely demands to co-star in her pictures. The movie turns out to be a desaster because of Blakely. Lydia stabs the ham actor to death and drops his body in the ocean. When filming the next movie on Malibu beach, Lydia's boat capzises and the actress drowns, being weighed down by the corpse of her victim.

Pages: 7.000

Pencils: Doug Wildey ?

Inks: Doug Wildey ?

Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)

Notes: Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.

Title: Mountain Murder

Synopsis: Mountaineer Jack Victor lets his nagging wife Carol drop to her death while climbing Destiny peak. When he makes the tour again with his new love Lynn, Victor perishes in the same spot Carol died.

Pages: 7.000

Pencils: Dick Beck ?

Inks: Dick Beck ?

Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)

Notes: Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.

Title: Title unknown

Synopsis: Two murderers try to shake the police by mingling with the audience of a carnival. They manage to escape by kidnapping the fortune teller Alia. Before he's killed, he predicts death by fire for the gangsters. The first one burns to death in bed while smoking, the second one is run over by a fire truck.

Pages: 6.000

Pencils: Howard Alexander

Inks: Howard Alexander

Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)

Notes: Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. Indexer's copy is missing first page of story.

Title: The Big Dope

Synopsis: Dr. Henry Faber sees to the fact that his patients get addicted to morphine - so he can sell them the drug. When Faber is involved in a train wreck and lies dying, he can't be helped because the morphine supply has been used up by his patients.

Pages: 7.000

Pencils: Edward Goldfarb

Inks: Edward Goldfarb

Letters: typeset (Leroy lettering)

Notes: Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.

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