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Issue: Crime Patrol #13
Publication Date: August 1949
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Issues: #13 of 10 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code
Publisher: FlagEC
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: I. C. Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 04/28/1949
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code
Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On sale date as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, January-June 1949, page 33, registration number B188890.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color cover and interior
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S.
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Format Notes:  
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Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Interior Page
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Inks over pencils.
 
Interior Page
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Title Page
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Inks over pencils.
 
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Sketch on back of storyline
 
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
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In Content Item: FlagCrime Patrol #7 published October 2000
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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I Fight Crime

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, non-fiction
Character(s): Ken Weston (Policeman, reformed criminal); Ken's mother (death); Ken's father (death); Police Chief; Johnny; Chick Blaine (villain, racketeer, death); Charlie Brandon (villain, death); "Fingers" Davis (villain, cameo)
First Line: The true story of a "rookie cop" as told to F.C. Aljon
Synopsis: Ken, witnessing a racketeer shooting down a stool pigeon on the street, dreams of of the day when he would own a car like Chick Blaine's. So he and a pal, Charlie, joined Blaine's operation. But when Ken's parents find out, they are furious, and in the next minute, a grenade, thrown from Blaine's car, explodes, killing Ken's parents. Ken reforms, joins the Police force, and asks to be assigned to Blaine's territory to seek revenge and justice for his parents.
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In Content Item: FlagCrime Patrol #7 published October 2000
as I Fight Crime [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.

Dissatisfied with Craig's slow output of work, editor Feldstein tried a short-lived experiment where he and Craig teamed up on some stories, using the pen name of "F.C. Aljon" (derived from the initials of their last names and compounded first syllables of their first names. In an interview in 1983 with John Benson, Feldstein, speaking of these stories, said "I penciled and John would ink it. He would straighten out my lousy drawing." But the stories themselves cast some doubt on such a precise division of labor.

For example, in this story, it seems that Feldstein inked the story.....maybe the entire story with very little, if any, of Craig's hand recognizable in the art.

Feldstein fictionalized all of the names of the true persons appearing in the story.

Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin, but it is unlikely that Severin had begun coloring at EC when this issue was colored (Cassell 2012, 33–34 and 171).
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Reference:

Cassell, Dewey, with Aaron Sultan. 2012. Marie Severin: The Mirthful Mistress of Comics. Raleigh: TwoMorrows Publishing.
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Practical Joke

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
First Line: The three men came dashing out of the factory buiding...
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In Content Item: FlagCrime Patrol #7 published October 2000
as Practical Joke! [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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Edna Sunday

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, non-fiction
Character(s): Edna's step father (in flashback); Albert (Edna's step brother, image only, in flashback); Edna's boss (death); Johnny (Edna's fiancee); Edna Sunday (villain, death)
First Line: It was raw, red hate that dominated Edna Sunday..
Synopsis: Edna was a woman filled with raw, red hate......hate for all men who she thought vindictive and cruel (like her step father), and she eagerly went after her victims with a rope. Early in life she ran away from home, and her step father sent her to a reformatory, which led more hate to build up within her as she was considered a bad girl who could do nothing right. She walked out of that job, found a rope and trailed her boss to the Staten Island Ferry, where she strangled him. Then she met Johnny, whom she loved and agreed to marry....until he jilted her.
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In Content Item: FlagCrime Patrol #7 published October 2000
as Edna Sunday [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.

All names used in this story are fictitious.

Some of the story is told in flashback.

This story was originally titled "Hate". However, the gory scene drawn to the splash made Bill Gaines re-do the splash and re-title the story. Michael Catron reports that, over time, the rubber cement holding the new splash to the artwork dried out and fell off, revealing the original splash. The original splash can be seen in the Fanatgraphics' volume "The Woman Who Loved Life and Other Stories" (October 2019).

Dissatisfied with Craig's slow output of work, editor Feldstein tried a short-lived experiment where he and Craig teamed up on some stories, using the pen name of "F.C. Aljon" (derived from the initials of their last names and compounded first syllables of their first names. In an interview in 1983 with John Benson, Feldstein, speaking of these stories, said "I penciled and John would ink it. He would straighten out my lousy drawing." But the stories themselves cast some doubt on such a precise division of labor.

Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin (see Indexer Notes for “I Fight Crime,” above).
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Tough Guy!

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
First Line: The wiry little man stepped out from behind the bushes...
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In Content Item: FlagCrime Patrol #7 published October 2000
as Tough Guy! [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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Two-Faced Woman: The True Story of Hazel Caro

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, non-fiction
Character(s): Pete Caro (Hazel's brother, death); Hazel Caro (villain, death); Slick Joe Becker (villain, death); Becker's mob (villains, some die); "Grips" Hobart (villain, gang leader, death); Hobart's gang (villains, many die); Smiling John Jones (villain, villain); Jones gang (villains)
First Line: This could be the story of two people...
Synopsis: Hazel was a black-haired, gentle art student and musician who loved beautiful things. But when she donned a blonde wig, she turned into a cruel and ruthless killer after her brother was shot down by Slick Becker's trigger men. She takes over "Grips" Hobart's mob and heads out to take on Becker and his gang, and succeeds in killing him and some of his gang before the Police move in. The funny things is that Hazel has no killer tendencies unless she is wearing the blonde wig. When Smiling Jones moves into the city, Hazel pulls a neat trick to have him arrested, but he has the last laugh on her.
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In Content Item: FlagCrime Patrol #7 published October 2000
as Two-Faced Woman The True Story of Hazel Caro [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.

Dissatisfied with Craig's slow output of work, editor Feldstein tried a short-lived experiment where he and Craig teamed up on some stories, using the pen name of "F.C. Aljon" (derived from the initials of their last names and compounded first syllables of their first names). In an interview in 1983 with John Benson, Feldstein, speaking of these stories, said "I penciled and John would ink it. He would straighten out my lousy drawing." But the stories themselves cast some doubt on such a precise division of labor.

Thommy Burns, in the Fantagraphics book, "The Woman Who Loved Life and Other Stories" (October 2019), he states that this was one of the Feldstein-Craig collaborations in which Feldstein apparently did all the art except for the Police officer's face in the last panel which is clearly Craig.

Feldstein fictionalized all the names in this story.

Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin (see Indexer Notes for “I Fight Crime,” above).

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