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“Out of the Frying Pan” (art by Johnny Craig), “A Trace of Murder” (art by Jack Kamen), “The Escaped Maniac” (art by George Roussos), and a Haunt of Fear story, “Partnership Dissolved” (art by Graham Ingels). Craig cover.

“Deadly Beloved” (art by Johnny Craig), “Top Billing” (art by Reed Crandall), “The Purge” (art by Bernard Krigstein), and “All For Gnawt” (art by Graham Ingels). All scripts by Carl Wessler. Craig cover.

“Hear No Evil” (pencils by Jack Kamen, inks by Johnny Craig), “First Impulse”/”Second Chance” (art by Sid Check), “A Question of Time” (art by Al Williamson), and a Haunt of Fear story, “Forty Whacks” (art by Jack Kamen). Craig cover.

“Any Sport in a Storm” (art by Johnny Craig), “Coffin Spell” (art by Jack Davis), “The Catacombs” (art by Bernard Krigstein), and “Out of Sight” (art by Graham Ingels). All scripts by Carl Wessler. Craig cover.

“Deadly Beloved” (art by Johnny Craig), “Top Billing” (art by Reed Crandall), “The Purge” (art by Bernard Krigstein), and “All For Gnawt” (art by Graham Ingels). All scripts by Carl Wessler. Craig cover.

“Double-Crossed” (script by Carl Wessler, art by Reed Crandall), “Crushed Ice” (script by Wessler, art by Jack Kamen), “Food For Thought” (script by Wessler, art by Joe Orlando), and “More Blessed To Give” (art by Barnard Krigstein). George Evans cover.

“Three For the Money” (art by Jack Kamen), “Dog Food” (art by Reed Crandall), “Key Chain” (art by Bernard Krigstein), and “The Sqealer” (art by George Evans). Kamen cover. NOTE: This issue was reprinted by East Coast Comics with a $1 cover a 1970′s copyright date. These and other changes make the reprint easy to distinguish from the original which has a 10-cent cover price and a 1950′s publication date. NOTE 2: This issue was reprinted by East Coast Comics with a $1 cover a 1970′s copyright date (see E.C. Classic Reprints #9).

“Ambush” (art by Jack Davis), “Pigs of the Roman Empire” (pencils by John Severin, inks by Bill Elder), “The Murmansk Run” (art by Wally Wood), and “Search” (art by Harvey Kurtzman). Kurtzman cover.

“Hill 203″ (art by Jack Davis), “Bug Out” (art by Wally Wood), “Rubble” (art by Harvey Kurtzman), and “Weak Link” (pencils by John Severin, inks by Bill Elder). Kurtzman cover.

“My Brother’s Keeper” (script by Carl Wessler, art by George Evans), “The Hazing” (art by Joe Orlando), “A Kind of Justice” (script by Wessler, art by Reed Crandall), and “The Pen is Mightier” (script by Wessler, art by Jack Kamen). Evans cover.

#1, 11/54, 10c. Comic featuring “sagas of the sea, ships, plunder, and piracy!” This issue has “The Privateer” (art by Reed Crandall), “The Mutineers” (art by Wally Wood), “Harpooned,” “Shanghaied” (art by Jack Davis), and one-page text feature “The Challenge.” Cover by Wally Wood.

“Partners” (art by Reed Crandall), “Up the River” (script by Carl Wessler, art by Bernard Krigstein), “John’s Reward” (art by Graham Ingels), and “Temptation” (art by George Evans). Evans cover.

“Li’l Melvin” (Li’l Abner parody with art by Bill Elder), “The Quite-a-Man” (art by Wally Wood), “Mother Goon’s Nertzery Rhymes” (art by Joe Orlando), and “Strike It Richly” (art by Jack Davis). Al Feldstein cover

“The Phansom” (Phantom parody with art by Bill Elder), “Executive Seat” (art by Wally Wood), “Comic Strip Advertising” (art by Joe Orlando), and “Popular Mechanics Magazine” parody (art by Jack Davis).

“Mel Padooka” (Joe Palooka parody with art by Bill Elder), “You Axed For It” (art by Jack Davis), “Travel Posters” (art by Joe Orlando), and “Them There Those” (art by Wally Wood).

“Irving Oops” (Alley Oop parody with art by Bill Elder), “Carmen” (art by Joe Orlando), “Panic Peeks Into Some Old Under Paints” (art by Jack Davis), and “Gone With the Widow” (Gone With the Wind parody with art by Wally Wood).

“Rx Migrane, M.D.” (art by Bill Elder), “Drive In Movie!” (art by Jack Davis), “Zoo Charade” (art by Joe Orlando), and “Bo Bummel” (art by Wally Wood). Part Superman/Dick Tracy/Smilin’ Jack cover.

“The Fight For Life” (art by Graham Ingels), “Janie Some Day” (art by George Evans), “To Fill the Bill” (art by Joe Orlando), and “Antidote” (art by Reed Crandall). Johnny Craig cover.

First issue in the series (continues from Weird Science-Fantasy). “Clean Start” (art by Wally Wood), “Marbles” (art by Bernard Krigstein), “Conditioned Reflex” (art by Joe Orlando), and “Barrier” (art by Jack Davis). Letter to the editor from comics artist Dan Adkins. Davis cover.

Fallen Idol” (art by Joe Orlando), “Food For Thought” (art by Al Williamson with Roy Krenkel; contains probably the most detailed splash page in the history of comics!), “The Ultimate Weapon” (art by Bernard Krigstein), and “Marked Man” (art by Jack Davis). Davis cover.

Final issue of the series. “Heart Interest” (art by George Evans), “The Travelers” (script by Carl Wessler, art by Joe Orlando), “The General” (art by Graham Ingels), and “So Much More” (art by Bernard Krigstein). Half-page mini-review of the Disney film “Lady and the Tramp.” Jack Davis cover.

“Hounded To Death” (art by Graham Ingels), “The Very Strange Mummy” (art by George Roussos), “Diminishing Returns” (uncredited art), and “The Irony of Death” (art by Jack Davis). Al Feldstein cover.

“Warts So Horrible” (art by Graham Ingels), “Forbidden Fruit” (art by Joe Orlando), “The Age-Old Story” (art by Jack Kamen), and “The Gorilla’s Paw” (art by Jack Davis). Al Feldstein cover.

ORIGIN OF CRYPT OF TERROR, VAULT OF HORROR AND HAUNT OF FEAR! Cover art by Graham Ingels. Horror We? How’s Bayou?–The Witch’s Cauldron!, script by Albert B. Feldstein, art by Graham Ingels [as Ghastly]; A man in the Louisiana swamp diverts traffic from the road to his mansion in order to satisfy the cravings of his demented homicidal brother for victims to dismember. Gorilla My Dreams!–The Vault of Horror!, script by Albert B. Feldstein, art by George Evans; A brain surgeon transfers the brain of his victim into the body of a gorilla taken from a carnival. A Likely Story!–The Old Witch’s Grim Fairy Tale!, script by Albert B. Feldstein, art by Jack Kamen. Garden Party–The Crypt of Terror, script by Albert B. Feldstein, art by Jack Davis.

Cover art by Graham Ingels. Creep Course–The Witch’s Cauldron!, art by Graham Ingels; A sorority girl tries to swing her ancient civilizations course with her good looks, but unfortunately for her, the professor is really into mummification. No Silver Atoll!–The Vault of Horror!, art by George Evans; A plane goes down in the ocean and the passengers make for an atoll where the captain announces they have a gun and a medical kit. Hansel and Gretel!–The Old Witch’s Grim Fairy Tale!, art by Jack Kamen. Country Clubbing!–The Crypt of Terror, script and art by Jack Davis.

“The New Arrival” (script by Otto Binder, art by Graham Ingels), “Indisposed” (art by George Evans), “Out Cold” (script by Carl Wessler, art by Jack Kamen), and “The Light in His Life” (script by Binder, art by Jack Davis). Letter to the editor from comics writer E. Nelson Bridwell (misspelled “Brigwell”). Ingels cover.

“About Face” (script by Carl Wessler, art by Graham Ingels), “Game Washed Out” (script by Wessler, art by George Evans), “The Silent Treatment” (art by Jack Kamen), and “Swamped” (art by Reed Crandall). An editorial urges readers to write to the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency, which had started investigating the comic industry. Ingels cover.

“A Platoon” (pencils by John Severin, inks by Bill Elder), “War of 1812″ (art by Wally Wood), “Ace” (art by Severin), and “Bellyrobber” (art by Jack Davis). First letters page. Full-page profile (with photo) of Kurtzman, who also drew the cover.

“The Way It Was” (art by George Evans), “The Outsider” (art by Wally Wood), “The Mascot” (art by Bernard Krigstein), and “The New C.O.” (script by Carl Wessler, art by Jack Davis). Evans cover.

“The Secret of Saturn’s Ring” (art by Wally Wood), “A Timely Shock” (art by Jack Kamen), “The Mutants” (art by Wood), and “Not on the Menu” (art by Joe Orlando). Al Feldstein cover.

“The End” (art by Wally Wood), “The Trip” (art by Jack Kamen), “Home to Stay” (art by Wood; unauthorized swipe of two Ray Bradbury stories, “Kaleidoscope” and “Rocket Man”), and “Don’t Count Your Chickens” (art by Joe Orlando). The letters page features a well-reasoned response from the editors to a letter from a parent critical of SF and horror comics such as those published by EC. Al Feldstein classic outer space cover. NOTES: There are two issues in this series numbered 13. The one dated 1950 is issue # 1 in the series.

Al Feldstein classic outer space cover. “Revulsion” (art by Joe Orlando), “The Quick Trip” and “The Long Trip” (art by Al Williamson)., “He Who Waits” (art by Jack Kamen), and “By George” (art by Williamson with Jack Hearn). The one dated Sept-Oct 1950 is issue # 3 in the series. The issue pictured here, dated Sept-Oct 1952, is the actual #15 in the series.

“Seeds of Jupiter” (art by Al Feldstein), “The Escape” (art by George Roussos), “Beyond Repair” (art by Jack Kamen), and “The Probers” (art by Wally Wood). Feldstein cover.

Classic Wally Wood aliens/spacemen cover. “The Maidens Cried” (art by Wood), “Reducing Costs” (art by Jack Kamen), “Transformation Completed” (art by Wood), and “The Planetoid” (art by Joe Orlando–first art on this title).

“The Martians” (art by Wally Wood), “Captivity” (art by Al Williamson–first art on this title), “Miscalculation” (art by Jack Kamen), and “Bum Steer” (art by Joe Orlando). Wood cover. NOTE: There are two issues in this series numbered 15. The one dated July/Aug 1950 is issue # 4 in the series. The issue pictured here, dated July/Aug 1952, is the actual # 15 in the series. (This issue was reprinted by East Coast Comics with a $1 cover and 1970′s copyright date (see E.C. Classic Reprints #2). These and other changes make the reprint easy to distinguish from the original which has a 10-cent cover price and a 1950′s publication date.)

Flying Saucer Report issue. Art by Wally Wood, Reed Crandall, George Evans, and Joe Orlando. Al Feldstein cover.

“Adaptability” (art by Wally Wood), “Close Shave” (art by Reed Crandall), “4th Degree” (art by Jack Kamen), and “I, Robot” (art by Joe Orlando; adapted from the story by Eando Binder). Letter to the editor from comics writer E. Nelson Bridwell. Classic Wally Wood cover.