Crime Patrol (1948-1950 EC) comic books 1948

Cover by Johnny Craig. Stories by Gardner Fox. Art by Sheldon Moldoff and Johnny Craig. Numbering continues from International Crime Patrol (1948) #6. E.C.'s Pre-Trend crime title started as adventure, changed to grisly crime stories and eventually metamorphosed into straight-up horror. A criminal takes the name Trigger Hancock and starts a gang to rival Grimmler's band of international thieves who want to heist Fort Knox, but he's actually setting a trap. A stray kite is the clue that leads the Chessmen to the villainous Ventor, who launches death from above by rocket. Action girl Madelon is the only person who can stop mad Ventor from launching his destructive rocket from his ruined castle. Captain Crime!: The Field-Marshal of Murder!; Van Manhattan: Death By Rocket Bomb!; Chessmen: Slaughter From the Sky!; Madelon: The Rocket In the Ruins! 40 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Johnny Craig. Stories by Gardner Fox and others. Art by H. C. Kiefer, Ed Waldman and Ann Brewster. E.C.'s Pre-Trend crime title started as adventure, changed to grisly crime stories and eventually metamorphosed into straight-up horror. Country sleuth Ellis Parker is called in after a strange murder case stumps the local police. Modern-day pirate and supervillain The Octopus wages a crime spree on the high seas, but luckily, heroic Igor the Archer stands in his path. A handsome hoodlum has a way with the ladies and excels at both love and larceny, until he kisses one woman too many. The Deadly Grease Monkey; The Alibi; Igor the Archer: The Fable of the Flying Dutchman; The Ghost of Markham Manor; The Case of the Kissing Killer. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Johnny Craig. Stories by Gardner Fox, Johnny Craig and Al Feldstein. Art by Johnny Craig, Al Feldstein and Ann Brewster. E.C.'s Pre-Trend crime title started as adventure, changed to grisly crime stories and eventually metamorphosed into straight-up horror. Gangsters become accidental assassins after the rich guy they killed for his cash turns out to be a high-ranking Mob figure. Action girl Madelon goes in search of a legendary idol in the Blue Grottoes of the Mediterranean, and encounters a very real tentacled Kraken, in a story featuring art by rare 1940s female artist Ann Brewster. A handsome killer has a Dorian Gray relationship with his mirror in Double-Crossed: The Finger of Death, the first story by future EC legend Al Feldstein. The Slaughter Syndicate: Murder by Appointment!!; Madelon: The Grotto of The Green Stone Man; Crooked as a Corkscrew; Double-Crossed: The Finger of Death. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.