Crime Patrol #2

Crime Patrol (Table of Contents: 1)

credits, title page / 3 pages (report information)

Letters

typeset

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Johnny Craig (signed as Johnny Craig [circle])

Inks

Johnny Craig (signed as Johnny Craig [circle])

Colors

Marie Severin

Letters

?

Genre

crime

Reprints

• from Crime Patrol (EC, 1948 series) #12 (June-July 1949)

Nell Baker (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein

Pencils

Al Feldstein (signed as Feldstein)

Inks

Al Feldstein (signed as Feldstein)

Letters

Jim Wroten

First Line of Dialogue or Text

She kept one jump ahead of the law until it came to murder!

Genre

crime

Reprints

• from Crime Patrol (EC, 1948 series) #12 (June-July 1949) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Indexer Notes

Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.

The Gentleman Gunman (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Graham Ingels

Inks

Graham Ingels

Letters

Jim Wroten

First Line of Dialogue or Text

From Boston to Los Angeles the police forces of a nation...

Genre

crime

Characters

Doris Macilvane; Rick Thayer (heir to Thayer jewels, Ltd.); Gentleman Danny Kenyon (villain, safe cracker, death); Bill (villain, death)

Synopsis

The Police are baffled by a strange, round mark that is found on safes that have robbed nationwide. The underworld knew much about this safe cracker, known as Gentleman Danny Kenyon.....but they hated him as well and were bidding their time until Danny made a mistake and they could eliminate him. And Danny's interest in a girl named Doris aroused the interest of one Rick Thayer, who visited the underworld and helped tip off the gangsters looking for Kenyon.

Reprints

• from Crime Patrol (EC, 1948 series) #12 (June-July 1949) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Keywords

Chicago; Hotel Metropole; New York City; Thayers Jewels LTD

The Hanged Man's Revenge (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Howard Larsen

Inks

Howard Larsen

Letters

Jim Wroten

First Line of Dialogue or Text

In primitive times...

Genre

crime; horror-suspense

Reprints

• from Crime Patrol (EC, 1948 series) #12 (June-July 1949) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Ruse (Table of Contents: 6)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

"Dead end," grunted Detective Murphy.

Genre

crime

Reprints

• from Crime Patrol (EC, 1948 series) #12 (June-July 1949)

The Ransom Racket (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Ed Waldman

Inks

Ed Waldman

Letters

Jim Wroten

First Line of Dialogue or Text

They had a pipe-dream job lined up...

Genre

crime

Reprints

• from Crime Patrol (EC, 1948 series) #12 (June-July 1949) [Reprinted in black and white.]

[Interview with Al Feldstein] (Table of Contents: 8)

text article / 1 page (report information)

Script

Bill Mason

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Discussion with Feldstein about the context of stories in this volume.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 9)

text article / 1 page (report information)

Script

Bill Mason (credited)

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Al Feldstein was certainly battling it out...

Indexer Notes

Article about the creators in this volume.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 10)

cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Johnny Craig (signed as Johnny Craig [circle])

Inks

Johnny Craig (signed as Johnny Craig [circle])

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

crime

Reprints

• from Crime Patrol (EC, 1948 series) #13 (August-September 1949)

I Fight Crime (Table of Contents: 11)

comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein

Pencils

Johnny Craig (signed as F.C. Aljon)

Inks

Al Feldstein (signed as F.C. Aljon)

Letters

Jim Wroten

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The true story of a "rookie cop" as told to F.C. Aljon

Genre

non-fiction; crime

Characters

Ken Weston (Policeman, reformed criminal); Ken's mother (death); Ken's father (death); Police Chief; Johnny; Chick Blaine (villain, racketeer, death); Charlie Brandon (villain, death); "Fingers" Davis (villain, cameo)

Synopsis

Ken, witnessing a racketeer shooting down a stool pigeon on the street, dreams of of the day when he would own a car like Chick Blaine's. So he and a pal, Charlie, joined Blaine's operation. But when Ken's parents find out, they are furious, and in the next minute, a grenade, thrown from Blaine's car, explodes, killing Ken's parents. Ken reforms, joins the Police force, and asks to be assigned to Blaine's territory to seek revenge and justice for his parents.

Reprints

• from Crime Patrol (EC, 1948 series) #13 (August-September 1949) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Indexer Notes

Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.

Dissatisfied with Craig's slow output of work, editor Feldstein tried a short-lived experiment where he and Craig teamed up on some stories, using the pen name of "F.C. Aljon" (derived from the initials of their last names and compounded first syllables of their first names. In an interview in 1983 with John Benson, Feldstein, speaking of these stories, said "I penciled and John would ink it. He would straighten out my lousy drawing." But the stories themselves cast some doubt on such a precise division of labor.

For example, in this story, it seems that Feldstein inked the story.....maybe the entire story with very little, if any, of Craig's hand recognizable in the art.

Feldstein fictionalized all of the names of the true persons appearing in the story.

Practical Joke (Table of Contents: 12)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The three men came dashing out of the factory buiding...

Genre

crime

Reprints

• from Crime Patrol (EC, 1948 series) #13 (August-September 1949)

Indexer Notes

Text story with illustration.

Edna Sunday (Table of Contents: 13)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein

Pencils

Al Feldstein (signed as F.C. Aljon)

Inks

Johnny Craig (signed as F.C. Aljon)

Letters

Jim Wroten

First Line of Dialogue or Text

It was raw, red hate that dominated Edna Sunday..

Genre

non-fiction; crime

Characters

Edna's step father (in flashback); Albert (Edna's step brother, image only, in flashback); Edna's boss (death); Johnny (Edna's fiancee); Edna Sunday (villain, death)

Synopsis

Edna was a woman filled with raw, red hate......hate for all men who she thought vindictive and cruel (like her step father), and she eagerly went after her victims with a rope. Early in life she ran away from home, and her step father sent her to a reformatory, which led more hate to build up within her as she was considered a bad girl who could do nothing right. She walked out of that job, found a rope and trailed her boss to the Staten Island Ferry, where she strangled him. Then she met Johnny, whom she loved and agreed to marry....until he jilted her.

Reprints

• from Crime Patrol (EC, 1948 series) #13 (August-September 1949) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Indexer Notes

Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.

All names used in this story are fictitious.

Some of the story is told in flashback.

This story was originally titled "Hate". However, the gory scene drawn to the splash made Bill Gaines re-do the splash and re-title the story. Michael Catron reports that, over time, the rubber cement holding the new splash to the artwork dried out and fell off, revealing the original splash. The original splash can be seen in the Fanatgraphics' volume "The Woman Who Loved Life and Other Stories" (October 2019).

Dissatisfied with Craig's slow output of work, editor Feldstein tried a short-lived experiment where he and Craig teamed up on some stories, using the pen name of "F.C. Aljon" (derived from the initials of their last names and compounded first syllables of their first names. In an interview in 1983 with John Benson, Feldstein, speaking of these stories, said "I penciled and John would ink it. He would straighten out my lousy drawing." But the stories themselves cast some doubt on such a precise division of labor.

Your Newsdealer -- He Is Your Friend! (Table of Contents: 14)

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Al Feldstein

Inks

Al Feldstein

Letters

typeset (Leroy lettering)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Aw, I got this one already…!

Genre

advocacy

Characters

Terry Wright

Synopsis

Terry Wright asks all his buddy's to clean up the comic book rack in Mr. Newsdealer's store after they're finished rifling through the comics.

Reprints

• from Saddle Justice (Russ Cochran, 1996 series) (1996)

Indexer Notes

Credit from Modern Love (EC, 1949 series) #1 (June-July 1949).

Tough Guy! (Table of Contents: 15)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The wiry little man stepped out from behind the bushes...

Genre

crime

Reprints

• from Crime Patrol (EC, 1948 series) #13 (August-September 1949)

Indexer Notes

Text story with illustration.

[Feldstein Interview Continued] (Table of Contents: 16)

text article / 1 page (report information)

Script

Bill Mason (credited)

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Discussion of Crime Patrol #13.

Two-Faced Woman: The True Story of Hazel Caro (Table of Contents: 17)

comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein

Pencils

Al Feldstein (signed as F.C. Aljon)

Inks

Al Feldstein (signed as F.C. Aljon); Johnny Craig (signed as F.C. Aljon)

Letters

Jim Wroten

First Line of Dialogue or Text

This could be the story of two people...

Genre

non-fiction; crime

Characters

Pete Caro (Hazel's brother, death); Hazel Caro (villain, death); Slick Joe Becker (villain, death); Becker's mob (villains, some die); "Grips" Hobart (villain, gang leader, death); Hobart's gang (villains, many die); Smiling John Jones (villain, villain); Jones gang (villains)

Synopsis

Hazel was a black-haired, gentle art student and musician who loved beautiful things. But when she donned a blonde wig, she turned into a cruel and ruthless killer after her brother was shot down by Slick Becker's trigger men. She takes over "Grips" Hobart's mob and heads out to take on Becker and his gang, and succeeds in killing him and some of his gang before the Police move in. The funny things is that Hazel has no killer tendencies unless she is wearing the blonde wig. When Smiling Jones moves into the city, Hazel pulls a neat trick to have him arrested, but he has the last laugh on her.

Reprints

• from Crime Patrol (EC, 1948 series) #13 (August-September 1949) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Keywords

Red Rooster Cafe; Tannen City

Indexer Notes

Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.

Dissatisfied with Craig's slow output of work, editor Feldstein tried a short-lived experiment where he and Craig teamed up on some stories, using the pen name of "F.C. Aljon" (derived from the initials of their last names and compounded first syllables of their first names). In an interview in 1983 with John Benson, Feldstein, speaking of these stories, said "I penciled and John would ink it. He would straighten out my lousy drawing." But the stories themselves cast some doubt on such a precise division of labor.

Thommy Burns, in the Fantagraphics book, "The Woman Who Loved Life and Other Stories" (October 2019), he states that this was one of the Feldstein-Craig collaborations in which Feldstein apparently did all the art except for the Police officer's face in the last panel which is clearly Craig.

Feldstein fictionalized all the names in this story.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 18)

cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Johnny Craig (signed as Johnny Craig [circle])

Inks

Johnny Craig (signed as Johnny Craig [circle])

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

We caught those smugglers with the goods this time!

Genre

crime

Reprints

• from Crime Patrol (EC, 1948 series) #14 (October-November 1949)

Three Clues to Terror (Table of Contents: 19)

comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script

Johnny Craig

Pencils

Johnny Craig (signed as Johnny Craig [circle])

Inks

Johnny Craig (signed as Johnny Craig [circle])

Letters

Jim Wroten

Genre

non-fiction; crime

Characters

Joe Daniels (Constable); Bill (Policeman); The Mad-Man Gang [Sport Oblen; Chuck Killinger; Bob] (villains)

Synopsis

The bank of Harker Falls is robbed of $20,000 by the Mad-Man Gang, but in making their getaway, the gang left tire prints behind. So Constable Daniels has plaster casts made of them and takes them to the FBI laboratories, and they are able to reconstruct the crime to a tee as well as identifying the getaway vehicle as a Palmer car. A clue of a thread from an expensive suit is then traced back to Sport Oblen, and before long the gang is tracked down and arrested.

Reprints

• from Crime Patrol (EC, 1948 series) #14 (October-November 1949) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Keywords

Harker Falls (Indiana)

Indexer Notes

Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.

The names and places of this true story are fictitious.

Colorist and letterer credits by Craig Delich.

Inside Job! (Table of Contents: 20)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

As soon as the salesman had left his office...

Genre

crime

Reprints

• from Crime Patrol (EC, 1948 series) #14 (October-November 1949)

Indexer Notes

Text story with illustration.

The Maxwell Brothers (Table of Contents: 21)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Ed Waldman (signed as Waldman)

Inks

Ed Waldman (signed as Waldman)

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Though John and Freddy Maxwell were step-brothers...

Genre

crime

Reprints

• from Crime Patrol (EC, 1948 series) #14 (October-November 1949) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Hey, Western Fans! (Table of Contents: 22) (Expand) /

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

Out of the Frying Pan (Table of Contents: 23)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

It was nigh unto sunset when the car pulled up...

Genre

crime

Reprints

• from Crime Patrol (EC, 1948 series) #14 (October-November 1949)

Indexer Notes

Text story with illustration.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 24) (Expand) /

Creme Perfume / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

The Case of the Floating Corpse! (Table of Contents: 25)

comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein

Pencils

Al Feldstein (signed as FELDSTEIN)

Inks

Al Feldstein (signed as FELDSTEIN)

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Work with me...

Genre

crime

Reprints

• from Crime Patrol (EC, 1948 series) #14 (October-November 1949) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Indexer Notes

Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 26)

The Crypt of Terror / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Johnny Craig (signed as Johnny Craig [circle])

Inks

Johnny Craig (signed as Johnny Craig [circle])

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

crime; horror-suspense

Reprints

• from Crime Patrol (EC, 1948 series) #15 (December 1949 - January 1950)

Murder Writes a Policy (Table of Contents: 27)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Johnny Craig (signed as Johnny Craig [circle])

Pencils

Johnny Craig (signed as Johnny Craig [circle])

Inks

Johnny Craig (signed as Johnny Craig [circle])

Letters

Jim Wroten

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The scream was loud in the lonely house...

Genre

non-fiction; crime

Characters

Mrs. Hubert Stonely (death); Ed (insurance man); Hap Shanahan (Police inspector); Madge (Hap's wife); Babs (villain, Stonely's secretary); Stonely's maid; Hubert Stonely (villain, manufacturer)

Synopsis

While Mrs. Stonely, attempting to take a shower and is electrocuted when an electric fan falls into the bathtub, her husband is off entertaining his beautiful secretary. To all concerned, the famed manufacturer was above suspicion, but a crafty Police inspector thinks otherwise.

Reprints

• from Crime Patrol (EC, 1948 series) #15 (December 1949 - January 1950) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Indexer Notes

Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.

Names in story are fictitious.

Some of the story is told in flashback.

Colorist and letterer credits by Craig Delich.

Case Number 318: Murder--The Swindle by Flame (Table of Contents: 28)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

John Alton (signed as Alton)

Inks

Al Feldstein (signed as Feldstein)

Letters

Jim Wroten

First Line of Dialogue or Text

It all started tranquilly enough...

Genre

crime

Reprints

• from Crime Patrol (EC, 1948 series) #15 (December 1949 - January 1950) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Double-Exposure! (Table of Contents: 29)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The young man moved through the crowd with great speed.

Genre

crime

Reprints

• from Crime Patrol (EC, 1948 series) #15 (December 1949 - January 1950)

Indexer Notes

Text story with illustration.

Johnny Sparr--Guardian of the Little Guy (Table of Contents: 30)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Fred Peters

Inks

Fred Peters

Letters

Jim Wroten

First Line of Dialogue or Text

He was content to be another battle-scarred pug...

Genre

crime

Reprints

• from Crime Patrol (EC, 1948 series) #15 (December 1949 - January 1950) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Coincidence (Table of Contents: 31)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Al Feldstein

Inks

Al Feldstein

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The tall man leaned out of the heavy shadow of the doorway...

Genre

crime

Reprints

• from Crime Patrol (EC, 1948 series) #15 (December 1949 - January 1950)

Indexer Notes

Text story with illustration.

Return from the Grave (Table of Contents: 32)

The Crypt of Terror / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein

Pencils

Al Feldstein (signed as FELDSTEIN)

Inks

Al Feldstein (signed as FELDSTEIN)

Letters

Jim Wroten

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Heh, heh! Welcome...

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

The Crypt Keeper (host)

Reprints

• from Crime Patrol (EC, 1948 series) #15 (December 1949 - January 1950) [Reprinted in black and white.]

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 33)

text article / 1 page (report information)

Script

Bill Mason (credited)

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

In the cold light of a 1993 dawn...

Indexer Notes

Article about the Crypt of Horror stories.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 34)

The Crypt of Terror / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Johnny Craig (signed as Johnny Craig [circle])

Inks

Johnny Craig (signed as Johnny Craig [circle])

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

crime; horror-suspense

Reprints

• from Crime Patrol (EC, 1948 series) #16 (February-March 1950)

The Corpse in the Crematorium (Table of Contents: 35)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Johnny Craig; Al Feldstein ?

Pencils

Johnny Craig

Inks

Johnny Craig

Letters

Jim Wroten

First Line of Dialogue or Text

A living man, being carried into the great coke furnace of a modern crematorium...

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Al Gregory (an artist); Jane Walton (Al's fiance)

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.

Reprints

• from Crime Patrol (EC, 1948 series) #16 (February-March 1950) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Indexer Notes

Colorist credit by Craig Delich.

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

Thommy Burns, in Fantagraphics' October 2019 volume, "The Woman Who Loved Life and Other Stories", reports that the script is by Craig, not Feldstein. Placed a ? by Feldstein's name and Craig's name added.

Trapped in the Tomb (Table of Contents: 36)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein

Pencils

George Roussos

Inks

George Roussos

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Alone in an airless tomb that had lain buried for forty centuries...

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

An explorer plots to kill another explorer by sealing him in an Egyptian tomb. His love interest foils the plot by fighting and scratching the bad guy for a note written in the missing man's handwriting. A third explorer realizes the fink is up to no good when he notices the facial scratches but the would-be murderer denies having seen the girl. The third explorer follows the evil doer and overpowers him when he attempts to toss the subdued girl over a cliff and then they rescue the man trapped in the tomb, who it turns out, is still just barely alive.

Reprints

• from Crime Patrol (EC, 1948 series) #16 (February-March 1950) [Reprinted in black and white.]

A Bottle of Murder! (Table of Contents: 37)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The story can be told, now.

Genre

horror-suspense

Reprints

• from Crime Patrol (EC, 1948 series) #16 (February-March 1950)

Indexer Notes

Text story with illustration.

The Graveyard Feet (Table of Contents: 38)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein

Pencils

John Alton

Inks

John Alton

Letters

Jim Wroten

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The feet came from the grave...

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

A mad doctor cuts off the body parts of his victims in order to experiment with transplants. One of the recipients turns out to be a reporter who finds that the feet have a will of their own and know how to kick box. Eventually, they lead him back to the doctor and once the cell doors of his intended victims are opened, they beat the doctor to death. The reporter's feet go back to being well-behaved now that their previous owner has been avenged.

Reprints

• from Crime Patrol (EC, 1948 series) #16 (February-March 1950) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Voodoo Vendetta (Table of Contents: 39)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

They tell strange tales in the hills of Haiti...

Genre

horror-suspense

Reprints

• from Crime Patrol (EC, 1948 series) #16 (February-March 1950)

Russ Cochran Presents the Complete EC Library (Table of Contents: 40) (Expand) /

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

The Spectre in the Castle (Table of Contents: 41)

The Crypt of Terror! / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein

Pencils

Al Feldstein (signed as FELDSTEIN)

Inks

Al Feldstein (signed as FELDSTEIN)

Letters

Jim Wroten

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Welcome, dear reader!

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

The Crypt Keeper (host)

Synopsis

A man inherits an estate on the condition that he survive a few nights in it since it is supposedly haunted by a ghost that has been known to kill a relative at times. He accepts the risk, and after he arrives odd things begin to happen, but it turns out not to have anything to do with the supernatural, but a greedy probate lawyer attempting to do away with him to gain control of the estate.

Reprints

• from Crime Patrol (EC, 1948 series) #16 (February-March 1950) [Reprinted in black and white.]

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 42)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Johnny Craig (signed as Johnny Craig [circle])

Inks

Johnny Craig (signed as Johnny Craig [circle])

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

crime

Reprints

• from Crime Patrol (EC, 1948 series) #13 (August-September 1949) [Reprinted as the back cover of this volume.]