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Issue: Crime Patrol #13

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Publication Date: August 1949

Issue #13
- International Crime Patrol
- #7
- #8
- #9
- #10
- #11
- #12
- ✔ #13
- #14
- #15
- #16
- Show Variants
- The Crypt of Terror

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Issues: #13 of 10 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating: Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code

Publisher: Flag

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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): William M. Gaines

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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Format

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:

Reprinted In6

6 Content Items

reprinted 6 times as Content Items in other Issues.

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Content Items (6 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): Johnny Craig (signed)

Inker(s): Johnny Craig (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: crime

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Crime Patrol #7 published October 2000
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

I Fight Crime

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Al Feldstein

Penciller(s): Johnny Craig [as F.C. Aljon] (signed)

Inker(s): Al Feldstein [as F.C. Aljon] (signed)

Colorist(s): Marie Severin ?

Letterer(s): Jim Wroten

Subject Matter

Genres: crime

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)

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.

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Crime Patrol #7 published October 2000
as I Fight Crime [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 9

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.

Practical Joke

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: crime

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Crime Patrol #7 published October 2000
as Practical Joke! [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Text story with illustration.

Edna Sunday

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Al Feldstein

Penciller(s): Al Feldstein [F.C. Aljon] (signed)

Inker(s): Johnny Craig [as F.C. Aljon] (signed)

Colorist(s): Marie Severin ?

Letterer(s): Jim Wroten

Subject Matter

Genres: crime

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)

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.

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Crime Patrol #7 published October 2000
as Edna Sunday [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

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.

Tough Guy!

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: crime

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Crime Patrol #7 published October 2000
as Tough Guy! [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Text story with illustration.

Two-Faced Woman: The True Story of Hazel Caro

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Al Feldstein

Penciller(s): Al Feldstein [F.C. Aljon] (signed)

Inker(s): Al Feldstein [as F.C. Aljon] (signed); Johnny Craig (last panel) [as F.C. Alaljon] (signed)

Colorist(s): Marie Severin ?

Letterer(s): Jim Wroten

Subject Matter

Genres: crime

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)

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.

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Crime 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

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.