#08 Freezer
#08 Freezer
Published Dec 1951
Cover by Johnny Craig. Stories by Bill Gaines, Al Feldstein and Johnny Craig. Art by Johnny Craig, Jack Kamen, Graham Ingels, and George Roussos. EC’s New Trend crime title featured top-notch art and writing, barrier-pushing graphics and pre-Code violence. Felix’s plot to murder his wife features untraceable poison, a slip of the tongue, switched gravestones, and a gruesome comeuppance. A radio broadcast about an escaped maniac turns a pleasant evening’s hitchhiking into a night of terror. When partners in a meatpacking business discover a way to swindle the customers and the competition, can murder be far behind? Out of the Frying Pan…; A Trace of Murder!; Double-Cross; The Escaped Maniac!; Partnership Dissolved! 32 pages, Full Color. “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) Cover price $0.10.
