cover art by Johnny Craig

Crime SuspenStories #19 (#20) Cover Printer’s Proof and Vintage Cover Proof Print (EC, 1954). Johnny Craig’s classic hanging cover places this grisly EC book at #4 on Overstreet’s list of Top 10 Crime Comics. The original production materials included here show that Craig’s classic cover was originally intended for Issue #19, although published for #20. Included here are two items: a four-color one-sided printer’s proof that measures 8.5″ x 12.25″ and a sepia toned print of the cover art that measures 7.5″ x 10.75″.

July 1947 issue ~ cover art by Rafael DeSoto

July 1947 issue

better image than previously posted

cover art by Rafael DeSoto

Thorne Lee, “The Face of Fear”

Charles Beckman, Jr., “Died in the Wool”

Joel Townsley Rogers, “Killing Time”

Larry Holden, “Port of the Dead”

Gayle Roberts, Jr., “Trigger Man”

Curt Hamlin, “Death Is a Small Thing”

Ted Stratton, “On Borrowed Crime”

Todhunter Ballard (W.T. Ballard), “Bury Me Not”