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Issue: The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #14
Publication Date: November 2015
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Issues: #14 of 37 Issues
Title: Forty Whacks and Other Stories
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Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
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Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Inc.
On Sale Date: 09/30/2015
Volume: 14
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9781606998625
UPC/EAN: 978160699862552999
Price: $29.99 USD
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Content Items: 36 (24 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Hardcover
Color: black and white with some color
Dimensions: 7.25" x 10.25" (18.4 cm x 26 cm)
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Binding: hardcover
Publishing Format: collected edition
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Forty Whacks and Other Stories

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Forty Whacks and Other Stories

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Look, Buster!

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Contract For Death

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Premium Overdue!

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The Gullible One

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Out of My Mind!

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Revenge!

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A Trace of Murder!

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Medicine!

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The Neat Job!

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Character(s): Arthur Berdeen (death); two un-named detectives; Eleanor Berdeen (villain)
Synopsis: An abused housewife married to a neat freak snaps one day and neatly dices the sections of her husband's body into small jars.
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Lady Killer

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Character(s): Mildred (Ralph's wife, death); Ralph (villain); Jeanne (villain, Ralph's lover, old school friend of Mildred's, death)
Synopsis: Ralph and Jeanne conspire to kill Ralph's wife who refuses to give him a divorce. After making sure he has an air-tight alibi, Ralph sneaks back to his home to shoot his wife, but she is not there. He sits down to wait on her, remembering back to when he first met Jeanne. When Mildred finally comes back, he kills her then races back to Jeanne's apartment. He enters and discovers Jeanne shot and dying; Mildred had killed her to get even with Ralph and what he was doing! Later, on death row, he sits, waiting to die....but charged with killing Jeanne!
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Kickback!

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Character(s): Oscar Higgins (Freda's husband, death); un-named doctor; Rick (Freda's boy friend); Fritz (construction worker); Mr. Davidson (Freda's lawyer); Freda Higgins (villain)
Synopsis: A young woman marries an older man for his money and gets tried of caring for him after a heart attack leaves him paralyzed. She comes up with a plot to stock the cellar with canned goods for three weeks and then pretends to be locked inside while her husband starves to death. It works, and she is cleared of suspicion in her husband's death, but the new man she meets manages to lock himself in the cellar without provisions for several days and is reduced to the same condition as her previous husband.
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One Man's Poison!

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Just Desserts!

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Character(s): Jimmy (Bernard's son, death); Cora (Bernard's wife, death); Irving (Bernard's best friend, death); Clorissa (Bernard's Aunt, death); Julius (Bernard's business partner, death); Fanny (a nurse, death); Fanny's un-named boy friend); Joe (Julius' employee); Bernard (villain)
Synopsis: A madman holds a dinner party for five people who have done dirt to him in the past and decapitates them.
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Snooze to Me!

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Character(s): Mr. Crestwood (Herbert's co-worker); Higgin (business associate of Herbert's); Nancy Chase (Herbert's wife, death); Herbert Chase (villain, Nancy's husband); Edith (villain, the Chase's maid, Herbert's lover)
Synopsis: Herbert comes home late one night and his waiting wife. Suspecting that he is having an affair, she confronts him, shooting down all of his alibis. She tells him to leave but has second thoughts and phones him to come back, but he refuses. So she devises a plot to take a whole bottle of sleeping pills after writing a suicide note, then have Edith, her maid, call Herbert, then an ambulance so the attendants can save her life. But Edith and Herbert pull a fast one on Nancy!
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Split Second!

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Character(s): Jack (lumberjack); Fuz (lumberjack); Ted Morgan (lumberjack); Steve Dixon (villain, lumberjack boss, death); Liz (Silver Dollar Saloon singer, Steve's wife, eventual death)
Synopsis: When a lumberjack boss blinds a young worker by hitting him in the head with a rock, the other lumberjacks gag him and stuff him in a hollow log for the blind boy to practice chopping through......and Liz, his wife, is next!
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Hear No Evil!

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Character(s): Fred Reardon; Irma (Mrs. Reardon's friend); unnamed detective; Rita Waldon Reardon (villain); Vance Tobin (villain, Fred's business associate, death)
Synopsis: Rita is introduced to Fred Reardon at a party and sets her sights on marrying this rather wealthy man, even though he is stone deaf.....for his money, of course. Soon, she falls in love with Vance Tobin and together they plot to kill Fred. However, Fred is involved in a car accident soon after and regains his hearing, unbeknownst to Vance and Rita, and he overhears the plot to poison him.
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Forty Whacks!

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Well-Traveled!

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Character(s): Jack Bailey (Horace's neighbor); Philip Bailey (Jack's son); Bess Weems (Horace's wife, death); Horace Weems (villain)
Synopsis: A henpecked husband dis-members his wife after she refuses to let him spend money on toy trains once too often.
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The Perfect Place!

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Dead Right!

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Character(s): Madame Vorna (fortune teller); J. Flag Marson (prison warden, mention only); Mr. Clayton (Cathy's boss); Cathy Finch Marno (office clerk, waitress, death); Charles Marno (villain, Cathy's husband, death)
Synopsis: A fortune teller predicts to a woman that a man who wants to marry her, but she finds repulsive, is going to inherit twenty-five thousand dollars and die shortly afterward, so she marries him. What the fortune teller doesn't tell her is that she wins the twenty-five thousand dollars as a prize, and when she tries to walk out on the slob, he murders her and inherits her money then dies in the electric chair.
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The Screaming Woman!

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Beauty And The Beach!

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Character(s): Mary Milton (John's wife); Ginger Fullman (Percy's wife, death); Cedric Abels (publicity man); Tom Simmens (advertising director); John Milton (villain, plastics factory worker); Percy Fullman (villain)
Synopsis: Two men are frustrated by the vanity of their attractive wives and the fact that they have offers to do some modeling and to participate in four beauty contests. One encases his wife in plastic while wearing her bathing suit, and the other broils his wife alive under forty sun lamps.
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Fission Bait!

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Piecemeal

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Character(s): Sidney (a naturalist); Eric (villain, Sidney's brother, Sally's lover, death); Sally (villain, Sidney's wife, death)
Synopsis: A woman plots to give her naturalist husband an overdose of sleeping pills so that she can be with his younger brother. Before he passes, he acquires a large shark and places it in their outdoor pool in which the wife regularly swims.
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One for the Money...

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Jack Kamen

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Behind the Panels

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Fission Bait Splash

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Crime, Horror, Terror, Gore, Depracity, Disrespect for Established Authority... and Science Fiction Too! The Ups and Downs of EC Comics

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Man Chasing Woman

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Murder, Murder Everywhere

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