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Crime SuspenStories #23
June-July 1954 · 0.10 USD · 36 pages
On sale 1954
Synopsis
The police are stunned when Victor Gattling brings in the dead body of his best friend Joe and then claims that he has been killed by him! He tells the puzzled cops that while he and Joe were working as lab partners, Joe had accidentally stuck Victor with a syringe containing the Bubonic plague. Later Joe tells Victor that he did it on purpose because Victor kept taking all the credit for their work. Victor hunts down Joe and murders him. It's later revealed that the syringe contained water and that it was an April Fool's joke. Victor had killed his friend for nothing!
Credits
- Script
- Otto Binder, Al Feldstein, Carl Wessler
- Pencils
- George Evans, Jack Davis, Reed Crandall, Jack Kamen, Marie Severin, Wally Wood
- Inks
- George Evans, Jack Davis, Reed Crandall, Jack Kamen, Marie Severin, Wally Wood
- Colours
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- Associate editor
- Al Feldstein
- Managing editor
- Bill Gaines
Reprinted in
- Tales from the Crypt #5
- Crime Suspenstories #23
- Iskalde Grøss #1/1993
- Iskalde Grøss #5 [1988]
- The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #11— Reprinted in black and white.
- The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #15— Reprinted in black and white.
- Crime Suspenstories #5
- The Comics Journal #177— grayscale
- The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #31— Reprinted in black and white.