Impact #3

(July-August 1955)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Life Sentence (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein ?

Pencils

Reed Crandall

Inks

Reed Crandall

Colors

Marie Severin

Letters

Jim Wroten

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The room is a pig-sty, littered with the filth of thirty years.

Genre

humor

Reprints

• in Impact (Russ Cochran, 1988 series) (1988)
• in Impact (Gemstone, 1999 series) #3 (June 1999)
• in The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) #35 - The Bitter End and Other Stories (January 2024) [Reprinted in black and white.]

The Debt (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Wessler

Pencils

Jack Davis (signed)

Inks

Jack Davis (signed)

Colors

Marie Severin

Letters

Jim Wroten

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Eight years before, it seemed like a bad dream to Joe Wiler.

Genre

drama

Reprints

• in Impact (Russ Cochran, 1988 series) (1988)
• in Impact (Gemstone, 1999 series) #3 (June 1999)

Totally Blind (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Otto Binder; Al Feldstein (script revisions)

Pencils

Jack Kamen (signed)

Inks

Jack Kamen (signed)

Colors

Marie Severin

Letters

Jim Wroten

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Every morning was the beginning of a painful ordeal for Mildred Wilson.

Genre

drama

Reprints

• in Impact (Russ Cochran, 1988 series) (1988)
• in Impact (Gemstone, 1999 series) #3 (June 1999)
• in The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) #31 - Three for the Money and Other Stories (December 2021) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Indexer Notes

Script was originally credited here to Carl Wessler. First page of script (signed by Binder) appears in Squa Tront (Fantagraphics, 2002 series) #14 courtesy of Bob Elliot. It was originally titled “Blind Love” and shows the text was expanded somewhat. Squa Tront editor suggests Al Feldstein likely made the revisions.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6)

The Punch Bowl / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

Marie Severin

Letters

typeset

Reprints

• in Impact (Russ Cochran, 1988 series) (1988)

Indexer Notes

Letters from Bill Bretzfelder, Mike Oliveri, William Mason, Nelson Bridwell (future DC staffer), Mike Masoian, Stan Grossman, Dan Bates, Jr., Joan Doyle, John Townsley, Steve Vulcheff, Pete Smith, Gerard Robbins.

The Good Fairy (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Wessler

Pencils

Graham Ingels

Inks

Graham Ingels

Colors

Marie Severin

Letters

Jim Wroten

First Line of Dialogue or Text

"Cute." That's the what Harris, the tobacco salesman, called the dirty-faced kid!

Genre

drama

Characters

Sam Crowder (shop keeper); Harris (tobacco salesman); Annie (proprietor of a lemonade stand); Officer Murphy

Synopsis

Everyone knew that Sam Crowder was a mean, penny-pinching old crab, who saw himself as tough as nails. He didn't like little Annie selling lemonade from her stand in front of the store, but would not believe her when she said that her lemonade pitcher was mysteriously full every morning, claiming that a good fairy filled it up every night. Unknown to anyone, it was Sam Crowder who secretly did the filling every night, not wanting to ruin his bad reputation with the people.

Reprints

• in Impact (Russ Cochran, 1988 series) (1988)
• in Impact (Gemstone, 1999 series) #3 (June 1999)
• in The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) #29 - Accidents and Old Lace and Other Stories (January 2021) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Indexer Notes

Script change from Al Feldstein ? to Wessler per "Accidents and Old Lace And Other Stories" archive (2021) by Fantagraphics.

Some of the story is told in flashback.

Appointment Cancelled (Table of Contents: 8)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

Marie Severin

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

David Holland was the kind of man whom others set their watches by.

Genre

drama

Reprints

• in Impact (Russ Cochran, 1988 series) (1988)
• in Impact (Gemstone, 1999 series) #3 (June 1999)

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advertisement / 5 pages (report information)