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Issue: Impact #1
Publication Date: March 1955
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Issues: #1 of 5 Issues (6 Printings)
Title:
Variant: Yellow Title
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagEC
Brand: EC An Entertaining ComicView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: I. C. Publishing Company Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 10 (5 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: drama
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagDen store skrækbog #[nn] published January 1974
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEC Portfolio #6 published January 1977
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]artwork only
In Content Item: FlagImpact #1 published April 1999
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Punch Bowl

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: This magazine, "IMPACT," is the first of five E.C. "New Direction" publications.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Message from The Editors.
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Tough Cop

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: drama
First Line: Massive! That is a classy word for a plainclothes cop I know...
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In Content Item: FlagImpact #1 published April 1999
as Tough Cop [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Runyonesque story
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Thirty Dollars

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: drama
First Line: Few, if any, fight fans remember Dave Baker.
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In Content Item: FlagImpact #1 published April 1999
as Thirty Dollars [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Diamond Pendant

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: drama
Character(s): Larry Horton (death); Millie Horton (Larry's wife); Julia Banfield (Millie's friend); Mr. Allerton (Larry's boss); Alfred Burwell (Larry's uncle); Whitley (jeweler's department head); Mr. Hawley (dress manuafacturer)
First Line: There was a time when things were good for us...
Synopsis: Larry and Millie are invited to a posh party at his employers home, but Millie is upset because the couple can't dress than fancy for it. Finally agreeing, she insists on wearing her friend's diamond pendant to the affair and Larry's boss, Mr. Allerton, is very impressed. However, somehow Millie loses the pendant and when the couple go to the jewelers to get a copy made, they discover the copy will cost $17,000. Larry's uncle agrees to loan them the money and they work hard to pay it, only to find out years later that Millie had borrowed a paste imitation!
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In Content Item: FlagImpact #1 published April 1999
as The Diamond Pendant [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Adapted from the Guy De Maupassant's 1884 story titled "The Necklace".

Some of the story is told in flashback.

This story was Ingel's first post-horror Ghastly and his first New Direction story.
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: House ads for Valor, Aces High and Psychoanalysis.
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[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
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The Dress

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: drama
Character(s): Mr. Kress (coroner); Martin Paulson; Agatha Donald (Janie's aunt); Janie Donald (death)
First Line: The other boarders were leaving the room silently...
Synopsis: Martin Paulson tries to convince the coroner that Aunt Agatha was the killer of Janie instead of her dying from over-excitement. From the very beginning, young Janie wanted to wear her grandmother's dress, but Aunt Agatha would not allow her to and punished the young girl, all at the urging of Paulson. Then, after the death of Janie, Agatha revealed the true reason for not allowing Janie to wear the dress.
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In Content Item: FlagImpact #1 published April 1999
as The Dress [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: This story was Evan's first illustrated story to appear on one of EC's "New Direction" magazines.

Some of the story is told in flashback.
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Master Race

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): Marie Severin ?
Subject Matter
Genres: drama
Character(s): unnamed concentration camp survivor; Carl Reissman (villain, Belsen Concentration Camp Commander, death); Adolf Hitler (villain, in flashback); The Nazis (villains, in flashback)
First Line: You can never forget it, can you, Carl Reissman?
Synopsis: At the end of World War 2, the commander of Belsen Concentration Camp fled across Europe and to America, always fearful of a lone camp inmate who threatened to find Reissman and make him pay for the atrocities that occurred in the camp during the war. His greatest fear is realized while riding a train and coming face to face with that inmate.
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In Issue: FlagB. Krigstein #1 published January 2002
In Content Item: FlagEC Horror Library of the 1950's #[nn] published January 1970
as Master Race [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagDen store skrækbog #[nn] published January 1974
as Herreracen [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEC Portfolio #6 published January 1977
as Master Race [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagA Smithsonian Book of Comic-Book Comics #[nn] published January 1981
as Master Race [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagImpact #1 published April 1999
as Master Race [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagNemi #23 published March 2005
as Herrerasen [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMessages in a Bottle: Comic Book Stories by B. Krigstein #[nn] published April 2013
as [untitled] [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]Page 8, panel 11 only
In Content Item: FlagMessages in a Bottle: Comic Book Stories by B. Krigstein #[nn] published April 2013
as Master Race [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Script credit from "Tales of Terror!" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.

Marie Severin stated in a 1986 interview that she didn’t color many of Bernard Krigstein’s stories, and that she thought he colored his own art: http://www.tcj.com/an-interview-with-marie-severin/. But she also talked about the difficulty of coloring Krigstein’s art, which suggests that she did color at least the occasional Krigstein story or cover. GCD’s colors credits reflect that this story may have been colored by Krigstein, or by Severin.

This story was originally a 6-page one, but Krigstein felt that length was inadequate and wanted to expand it to 12 pages. Bill Gaines said no to that, but he eventually agreed (with Feldstein) on 8 pages. Krigstein was paid $43 per page for this story.

Some of the story told in flashback.
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[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 4

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