War Against Crime #11 Gaines File pedigree 1/11 (EC, 1950) CGC NM/MT 9.8 Off-white to white pages. This historic issue boast...

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Sold: Nov 8, 2004

War Against Crime! #11 Values

Publisher: EC, 1950

About War Against Crime! #11

The first horror cover in the title, and the first for EC. Second appearance of the Vault Keeper. Last issue before the name change to Vault of Horror. Stories by Johnny Craig and Al Feldstein. Cover by Craig. Art by Craig, Feldstein, George Roussos, and Harry Harrison.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: The Mummy's Curse

Pencils: Johnny Craig (signed)

Inks: Johnny Craig (signed)

STORY DETAILS

(6 Stories)

Title: The Mummy's Curse

Pages: 8.000

Script: Al Feldstein

Pencils: Al Feldstein

Inks: Al Feldstein

Notes: Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.

Title: A Bed of Murder

Pages: 7.000

Script: Harry Harrison ?

Pencils: Harry Harrison

Inks: Harry Harrison

Notes: John Alton is credited in this reprint, but, in an interview from Graphic Story Magazine number 15 (Summer 1973), Harry Harrison said he did this story with Wally Wood. Most online sources don't credit Wood with doing anything in this particular story (though Harrison and Wood did a lot of work together). It is included in Harry Harrison: An Annotated Bibliography, which credits Harrison with the art and tentatively credits him with the script.

Title: Madman!

Characters: Frank Jameson; Janice (Frank's girl friend and neighbor); Ugo (sic Hugo) Jameson (Frank's brother)

Synopsis: Frank cared for his crazed brother Hugo, who had the mind of a baby and did not really understand the difference between right and wrong. This was a fact Frank wanted to keep from Janice, but when she learned of the situation she ran off, but for just a little while. Meanwhile, Ugo binds up Frank and walls him in down in the basement. When Janice comes looking for Frank, Ugo tells her what he did to Frank and, through a trick maneuver, notifies the authorities and Frank is saved.

Pages: 7.000

Script: Johnny Craig (signed)

Pencils: Johnny Craig (signed)

Inks: Johnny Craig (signed)

Letters: Jim Wroten

Notes: Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion. Colorist and letterer credits from Craig Delich. This story, according to author Thommy Burns in "The Woman Who Loved Life and Other Stories", an October 2019 book by Fantagraphics, strongly feels this particular story is not really a crime story at all, but the precursor to the EC New Trend SuspenStories. Frank's brother in the story is sometimes called Hugo and sometimes Ugo.

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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	2	1	3	1	0	3	5	9	5	3	8	4	6	2	4	3	1	4	0	1	2	2	6	1	0	76
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
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	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4
Total	2	1	3	1	0	3	5	9	6	3	9	4	6	2	4	4	2	4	1	1	2	2	6	1	0	81

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