War Against Crime! #11

(February-March 1950)

[Crime Patrol #16] (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

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

The Mummy's Curse (Table of Contents: 2)

The Vault of Horror / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein

Pencils

Al Feldstein (signed as FELDSTEIN)

Inks

Al Feldstein (signed as FELDSTEIN)

Colors

?

Letters

Jim Wroten

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Come in, dear reader!

Genre

horror-suspense

Reprints

• in War Against Crime (Russ Cochran, 1993 series) #2 [Reprinted in black and white.]
• in War Against Crime (Gemstone, 2000 series) #11 (February 2001)
• in The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) #28 - Terror Train and Other Stories (October 2020) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Indexer Notes

Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.

"A Bed of Murder" (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Harry Harrison ?

Pencils

Harry Harrison

Inks

Harry Harrison

Colors

?

Letters

Jim Wroten

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The police found the dead man here and there...

Genre

crime

Reprints

• in War Against Crime (Russ Cochran, 1993 series) #2 [Reprinted in black and white.]
• in War Against Crime (Gemstone, 2000 series) #11 (February 2001)
• in The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) #33 - Deadly Beloved and Other Stories (January 2023) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Indexer Notes

John Alton is credited in the 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.

Bury Me Not... (Table of Contents: 4)

text story / 0.67 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

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Inks

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Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Henderson took the corncob pipe from his mouth...

Genre

crime

Reprints

• in War Against Crime (Russ Cochran, 1993 series) #2
• in War Against Crime (Gemstone, 2000 series) #11 (February 2001)

Demons of Death - (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

George Roussos

Inks

George Roussos

Colors

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Letters

Jim Wroten

First Line of Dialogue or Text

When greed, and the lust for things that gold will buy...

Genre

crime

Reprints

• in War Against Crime (Russ Cochran, 1993 series) #2 [Reprinted in black and white.]
• in War Against Crime (Gemstone, 2000 series) #11 (February 2001)

Eye-Witness (Table of Contents: 6)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Al Feldstein (illustration)

Inks

Al Feldstein (illustration)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Young Heller patted his coat pocket as he walked down the steps...

Genre

crime

Reprints

• in War Against Crime (Russ Cochran, 1993 series) #2
• in War Against Crime (Gemstone, 2000 series) #11 (February 2001)

Madman! (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Johnny Craig (signed)

Pencils

Johnny Craig (signed as Johnny Craig [circle])

Inks

Johnny Craig (signed as Johnny Craig [circle])

Colors

?

Letters

Jim Wroten

First Line of Dialogue or Text

When his crazed brother tied and gagged Frank Jameson...

Genre

crime

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.

Reprints

• in War Against Crime (Russ Cochran, 1993 series) #2 [Reprinted in black and white.]
• in War Against Crime (Gemstone, 2000 series) #11 (February 2001)
• in The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) #25 - The Woman Who Loved Life and Other Stories (October 2019) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Indexer Notes

Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.

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.