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Genres: drama

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Pages: 1

The Punch Bowl

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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First Line: This magazine, "IMPACT," is the first of five E.C. "New Direction" publications.

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Pages: 1

Notes: Message from The Editors.

Tough Cop

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Genres: drama

First Line: Massive! That is a classy word for a plainclothes cop I know...

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Pages: 5

Notes: Runyonesque story

Thirty Dollars

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Genres: drama

First Line: Few, if any, fight fans remember Dave Baker.

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The Diamond Pendant

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Genres: drama

Character(s): Larry Horton (death); Millie Horton (Larry's wife); Julia Banfield (Millie's friend); Mr. Allerton (Larry's boss); Alfred Burwell (Larry's uncle); Whitley (jeweler's department head); Mr. Hawley (dress manuafacturer)

First Line: There was a time when things were good for us...

Synopsis: Larry and Millie are invited to a posh party at his employers home, but Millie is upset because the couple can't dress than fancy for it. Finally agreeing, she insists on wearing her friend's diamond pendant to the affair and Larry's boss, Mr. Allerton, is very impressed. However, somehow Millie loses the pendant and when the couple go to the jewelers to get a copy made, they discover the copy will cost $17,000. Larry's uncle agrees to loan them the money and they work hard to pay it, only to find out years later that Millie had borrowed a paste imitation!

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Pages: 7

Notes: Adapted from the Guy De Maupassant's 1884 story titled "The Necklace".

Some of the story is told in flashback.

This story was Ingel's first post-horror Ghastly and his first New Direction story.

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Pages: 2

Notes: House ads for Valor, Aces High and Psychoanalysis.

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The Dress

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Genres: drama

Character(s): Mr. Kress (coroner); Martin Paulson; Agatha Donald (Janie's aunt); Janie Donald (death)

First Line: The other boarders were leaving the room silently...

Synopsis: Martin Paulson tries to convince the coroner that Aunt Agatha was the killer of Janie instead of her dying from over-excitement. From the very beginning, young Janie wanted to wear her grandmother's dress, but Aunt Agatha would not allow her to and punished the young girl, all at the urging of Paulson. Then, after the death of Janie, Agatha revealed the true reason for not allowing Janie to wear the dress.

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Pages: 6

Notes: This story was Evan's first illustrated story to appear on one of EC's "New Direction" magazines.

Some of the story is told in flashback.

Master Race

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Colorist(s): Marie Severin ?

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Genres: drama

Character(s): unnamed concentration camp survivor; Carl Reissman (villain, Belsen Concentration Camp Commander, death); Adolf Hitler (villain, in flashback); The Nazis (villains, in flashback)

First Line: You can never forget it, can you, Carl Reissman?

Synopsis: At the end of World War 2, the commander of Belsen Concentration Camp fled across Europe and to America, always fearful of a lone camp inmate who threatened to find Reissman and make him pay for the atrocities that occurred in the camp during the war. His greatest fear is realized while riding a train and coming face to face with that inmate.

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Pages: 8

Notes: Script credit from "Tales of Terror!" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.

Marie Severin stated in a 1986 interview that she didn’t color many of Bernard Krigstein’s stories, and that she thought he colored his own art: http://www.tcj.com/an-interview-with-marie-severin/. But she also talked about the difficulty of coloring Krigstein’s art, which suggests that she did color at least the occasional Krigstein story or cover. GCD’s colors credits reflect that this story may have been colored by Krigstein, or by Severin.

This story was originally a 6-page one, but Krigstein felt that length was inadequate and wanted to expand it to 12 pages. Bill Gaines said no to that, but he eventually agreed (with Feldstein) on 8 pages. Krigstein was paid $43 per page for this story.

Some of the story told in flashback.

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Pages: 4