CRIME SUSPENSTORIES #8 * CGC 5.0 * Meat is Murder

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Title: CRIME SUSPENSTORIES No. 8
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Publisher:EC [Indicia: L. L. Publishing Co. Inc.]
Date Published: December, 1951-January, 1952
Description: CGC certified: VG/FN (5.0). Off-white to white pages. Grader notes: Moderate bends to cover; moderate creasing to cover; moderate spine stress lines to cover.

CGC Census: 103 graded copies (98 Universal, 5 Restored).

GPAnalysis: A 5.0 sold for $258 in 2/24.

Credits: Cover: Johnny Craig. Scripts: Johnny Craig, Bill Gaines, and Al Feldstein. Art: Johnny Craig, Jack Kamen, George Roussos, Graham Ingels. Rime Scheme: Unlucky man meets frosty fate on Johnny Craig's freezer-of-fear cover. Craig's cover illustrates Feldstein and Ingels' "Partnership Dissolved," in which a murderous food chemist accidentally swills a jug of hi-potency meat tenderizer and melts in a pile of putrescent goo, with Feldstein's words rivalling Ingels' imagery for sheer barfability: "The concentrated digestive enzyme was working fast! ...Soon, his body began to shrivel... turning blue! His screams died in a choking gurgle! The form of his blackening body dissolved into a dark putrid mass! A foul, rancid odor wafted upward from the quivering, seething pool!"______________________________________________________________

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