Dates
- Cover date
- June-July 1954
- On sale
- 1954
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- This'll Kill You! · 8 pages
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!
- Standing Room Only · 7 pages
Twin siblings Carl and Cynthia spent their early years cross-dressing in order to have laughs on their friends but fall out of favor with each other. Some time later, Carl sees that his sister has married into money, so he murders his sister and her husband and then disguises himself as her in order to have access to those funds as beneficiary. Unfortunately, Carl makes a bone-headed mistake while "dating" Peter's lawyer. He is caught entering the mens restroom.
- The Real Thing · 1 pages
Two disguised crooks enter the offices of President Simon Goober and demand all his cash. When he opens the safe, the crooks pull out stage money. Furious, they demand that Goober write them a check, made out to cash, for all but $100 in the account, and, as a final insult, demand the five cigars Goober has in his pocket. After they have left, Goober and his assistant share a laugh as the check was filled out with invisible ink... and the cigars were explosive ones!
- Return Blow · 6 pages
Alma and Luke decide to butter up Alma's boss lady at the fabulous Sanford Mansion in order to get Alma listed in the old lady's will as beneficiary for a cool $250,000. But waiting for her to die got on Luke's nerves, so he decided to hurry the process up a little. He mails her a bomb in a package. However the old lady ends up passing away and the package is returned to sender. The plan literally blows up in his and Alma's face.
- Last Resort · 7 pages
Jerry hated the fat unattractive Mona, who used her money to control him. He seeks out a diversion in young and beautiful Jane, a waitress in town. Jerry kills Mona and dumps her into a lake at night, which eventually trips him up because he had dumped her body into crystal clear Silver Springs, a lake frequented by people in glass bottom boats where everything underwater can be seen, including bloated corpses.
Reprinted in
Crime Suspenstories (1983), Tales from the Crypt (1991), Crime Suspenstories (1994), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (2012)