Subject Matter
Genres:
crime
Feature(s):
Crime SuspenStories
Character(s):
Stanley Talbot (villain, death); Molly Talbot (villain, Stanley's wife, death)
First Line:
Molly and Stanley Talbot had been married a long time.
Synopsis:
The story of a long-time husband and wife who, after many years of marriage, decide they have had enough of one another and individually decide to end it by killing the other. He planted a bomb in their anniversary cake, but she saw him do it, and thus disposed of the device in the cake. She, on the other hand, poisoned a bottle of wine and gave it to him......but he discovered her action and began to pour out the contents of the bottle. Both of them were killed by back-up plans of each other.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:
Miscellaneous
Pages:
7
Notes:
Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion. Previous indexer had Al Feldstein.
Panel breakdowns credit per Greg Sadoweski in "Master Race and Other Stories" (2018).