#13 Lizzie Borden
#13 Lizzie Borden
Published October 1952
Cover by Johnny Craig. Stories by Al Feldstein. Art by Johnny Craig, Jack Kamen, Sid Check, and Al Williamson. EC’s New Trend crime title featured top-notch art and writing, barrier-pushing graphics and pre-Code violence. Helen suspects her sister Joan is having an affair with her husband, and the result of her suspicion is a fatal misunderstanding. In another version of the same story, she’s not suspicious enough. These two are half-length stories called Quickies, featuring similar characters and romantic triangles. A young woman’s homicidal rage could be the result of a cursed axe that once belonged to Lizzie Borden. Hear no Evil!; First Impulse!; Second Chance?; Freak!; A Question of Time!!; Forty Whacks! 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.