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Issue: War Against Crime #2
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Issues: #2 of 2 Issues
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Publisher: FlagRuss Cochran
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Indicia Publisher: Russ Cochran, Publisher
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Volume: 2
Pages: 156
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Content Items: 44 (27 stories, 2 covers)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; black and white interior with some color
Dimensions: 10" x 13"
Paper Stock: bond interior with glossy cover reprints
Binding: hardcover
Publishing Format: collected edition
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The Mummy's Curse

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Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Vault of Horror
First Line: According to my translation of the hieroglyphics on this papyrus...
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War Against Crime

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[untitled]

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The Scavenger Siren

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Genres: crime
Character(s): Toni Bassett (villain, death); Mike Malott (villain, death); Mike's mob [Spud; rest unnamed] (villains, all die); Butch (villain, death); Turk (villain, death); unnamed villain (death)
First Line: Pretty Toni Barrett of tired of being a waitress.
Synopsis: Toni was tired of the life of a waitress, so she decided to change all of that, yearning excitement.....anything that would get her fun and money. Then, one night, a Mike Malott walked into the restaurant, leaving his wallet behind accidentally. When she follows him, she sees him gun down three fellow gangsters, and from that point on, they team up for a life of crime.
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Your Newsdealer He Is Your Friend!

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Genres: opinion
Character(s): Hank Carter; Hank's friends; Mr. Newsdealer; Pee Wee Reese (mentioned)
Synopsis: Hank asks his friends not to hang out at the entrance to a store.
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Gang War "A Fight to the Death!"

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First Line: When a mob of bloodthirsty thugs...
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Cross and Double-Cross

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First Line: Edging his way out of the group at the bar...
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The Craig Gang

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First Line: A trail of robbery and murder followed them through the South...
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[untitled]

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First Line: Newsdealer Dan Feese partially hides an auxilliary comics rack...
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[untitled]

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The Last Round

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First Line: A true crime story as told to A. Feldstein
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Your Newsdealer -- He Is Your Friend

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Escape!

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First Line: The lights went out along the corridor...
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The Rise and Fall of Blackie Archer

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Character(s): B. Archer (President of the Benevolent Protective Agency); Mr. Gimple (livery owner); unnamed night watchman; Blackie Archer (villain, extortionist, death); Gus (villain)
First Line: Blackie Archer was a perfect gentleman...
Synopsis: Archer, a gentleman and intelligent crook, was the black sheep of his family who had a blind spot in his make-up that led him from petty crime to shrewd racketeering. However, Archer's one mistake led the owner of a livery company, who was being blackmailed, to go to the police, and together, they set a trap for the extortionist.
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Interview with Johnny Craig

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Mystery Woman Betrays Brooklyn Murder Mob!

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First Line: Yeah, this is a stick-up!
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Interview with Al Feldstein

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[untitled]

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First Line: Although Gaines speaks of supplying both Craig and Feldstein...
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[untitled]

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First Line: Go ahead... let him have it! The double-crosser!
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The Fatal Turn

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Fall-Guy!

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First Line: "Jackson!" the desk Lieutenant called out...
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Homicide!

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First Line: This is the way case number 549 looked to the homicide squad...
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Child's Play

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First Line: His flashlight moved along the wall...
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[untitled]

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First Line: Bill Gaines and ACMP executive director...
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Hey, Western Fans!

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Scott Edwards Treasury Agent

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Character(s): Scott Edwards (special investigator); unnamed secretary (cameo); Chief George Garland; Enid Browne (San Francisco Globe reporter); Dora Mayfield (death); Dr. Kane (villain, hotel doctor, head of a narcotics ring); Torp (villain); Chimp (villain)
First Line: Courage, perseverence and a keen mind...
Synopsis: After being released from the hospital, Scott reports to the Chief of the U.S. Treasury narcotics division to give his report into the mysterious death of one Dora Mayfield and his tussle with a narcotics ring.
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Craig used fictitious names for all involved in the story.

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Tough as Nails!

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First Line: There was a good reason why Fred Barnett was called "Nails."
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First Line: A less extensive stint, it turns out...
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Feature(s): The Vault of Horror
First Line: B-but... I... I can't understand this, Roger!
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Buried Alive

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Feature(s): The Vault of Horror
First Line: Come closer, dear reader!
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The Man Death Wanted

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First Line: Gordon Kimball was just an ordinary man.
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Methods of the Master!

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First Line: The tall man put the last clipping back into his wallet...
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Perfect Murder

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First Line: Murray Winter had planned this crime cunningly...
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Face to Face!

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First Line: He slammed the door of the hotel room behind him.
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The Idol's Revenge!

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Character(s): Steve Murray; Dotty Garand (Steve's date); Ed (villain, thief, Steve's friend, death)
First Line: In the four corners of the world...
Synopsis: The story is told of Malnat, the shadow god of an old Samarkand temple, and how a young American stole its ruby eye, bringing it back to America. But the curse of Malnat seemed to follow him until one day he discovered that his friend, Ed, was using a flashlight with an image of Malnat on it to frighten Steve. It was then that Malnat exacted his revenge: not on Steve, but on Ed because Ed dared to imitate Malnat!
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Letterer credits by Craig Delich.
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The Mummy's Curse

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The Mummy's Curse

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Feature(s): The Vault of Horror
First Line: Come in, dear reader!
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"A Bed of Murder"

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First Line: The police found the dead man here and there...
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Disclose Notes: John Alton is credited in the reprint, but, in an interview from Graphic Story Magazine number 15 (Summer 1973), Harry Harrison said he did this story with Wally Wood. Most online sources don't credit Wood with doing anything in this particular story (though Harrison and Wood did a lot of work together). It is included in Harry Harrison: An Annotated Bibliography, which credits Harrison with the art and tentatively credits him with the script.
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Bury Me Not...

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First Line: Henderson took the corncob pipe from his mouth...
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Demons of Death -

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First Line: When greed, and the lust for things that gold will buy...
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Eye-Witness

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First Line: Young Heller patted his coat pocket as he walked down the steps...
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Madman!

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Character(s): Frank Jameson; Janice (Frank's girl friend and neighbor); Ugo (sic Hugo) Jameson (Frank's brother)
First Line: When his crazed brother tied and gagged Frank Jameson...
Synopsis: Frank cared for his crazed brother Hugo, who had the mind of a baby and did not really understand the difference between right and wrong. This was a fact Frank wanted to keep from Janice, but when she learned of the situation she ran off, but for just a little while. Meanwhile, Ugo binds up Frank and walls him in down in the basement. When Janice comes looking for Frank, Ugo tells her what he did to Frank and, through a trick maneuver, notifies the authorities and Frank is saved.
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Letterer credits from Craig Delich.

This story, according to author Thommy Burns in "The Woman Who Loved Life and Other Stories", an October 2019 book by Fantagraphics, strongly feels this particular story is not really a crime story at all, but the precursor to the EC New Trend SuspenStories.

Frank's brother in the story is sometimes called Hugo and sometimes Ugo.
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Russ Cochran Presents the Complete EC Library

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[untitled]

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First Line: Go ahead... let him have it! The double-crosser!
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