Dates
- Cover date
- January 1953
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Crushed Gardenia · 8 pages
The story of Johnny Faber: a young man who "had no control of his rages". Turned down by his girl Ellie, Johnny kills her in a jealous fit.
- Signal 32 · 0.5 pages
Signal 32 on police radio means: "All cars proceed with caution".
- Don't Let Me Kill · 7 pages
The story of Alex Vorple: The ugly teen-age boy is driven to murder. Hearing voices, Alex feels compelled to drown his inferiority complex by killing girls.
- Crazy Carl · 2 pages
Two unscrupulous businessmen murder "Crazy Carl", a hermit who won't sell them his house on the hill. Police catch the killers because Carl had whittled their faces into pieces of wood as he was dying.
- The Destroyer · 5 pages
The story of Walter Graves: a war-traumatized veteran who breaks down and goes on a killing spree, taking four innocent lives.
- Murder by Moonlight · 1 pages
A serial robber and killer who strikes only during moonlit nights is finally caught.
- Death on a Dark Street · 6 pages
The story of Herbert Cole: a paranoiac who turns killer when his fiancée leaves him for another man. After a second murder attempt he is trapped by the police - and jumps to his own death.
Reprinted in
Seduction of the Innocent! (1985), Buried Treasure (1986), The Alex Toth Reader (1995), Alex Toth: Edge of Genius (2007), The Mammoth Book of Best Crime Comics (2008), Genius, Isolated: The Life and Art of Alex Toth (2011), Setting the Standard: Comics by Alex Toth 1952-1954 (2011)