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Auction History Result 6s0168 CRIME SUSPENSTORIES #22 comic book April 1954 legendary severed head art by Johnny Craig! Date Sold 6/9/2024 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Comic Book (measures approximately 7 1/8" x 10 1/4") (Learn More) Crime SuspenStories was a bi-monthly anthology crime comic from the early 1950s. This comic was published by Bill Gaines (William Gaines) through his company, EC Comics (E.C. Comics), which he inherited from his father in 1947. The title first arrived on newsstands with its October/November 1950 issue and ceased publication with its February/March 1955 issue, producing a total of 27 issues. This was one of many E.C. comic titles published by Bill Gaines (later publisher of Mad Magazine). Since the ending of publication, all of the E.C. comics have been reprinted many, many times, in many formats, and there have been several movies and TV series based on them! Artist: Johnny Craig Important Added Info: Note that we have never before auctioned this most desirable EC comic book! It has a truly wild cover by Johnny Craig showing an axe killer holding a girl's severed head by the hair. It played a prominent role in the Senate investigation of comic books, when Bill Gaines said that within the limits of the horror genre, his comic books were in "good taste", and the senator held up this comic and asked him if he thought THIS was in good taste, and he described how the art originally extended further and showed graphic details of blood dripping from the severed head, and that he asked the artist to crop it so it didn't show, and certainly this did not help his case. It is an EC comic that every EC collector wants, and in wonderful condition, it has auctioned for over $90,000, and there seems to be no limit to how high it can go! Contents: Cover by Johnny Craig. Stories by Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein. Art by Bernie Krigstein, Marie Severin, Jack Kamen, Joe Orlando, and Reed Crandall. EC's New Trend crime title featured top-notch art and writing, barrier-pushing graphics and pre-Code violence. A couple's intricate plot to have the mistress impersonate the murdered wife is undone by a game show, of all things. A banker who swindles a fortune from an old woman is betrayed by his own guilt. An attempt at murder-by-fire becomes suicide-by-spouse instead. Severed-head cover is one of the most infamous in comics history, mentioned during Gaines' testimony before the US Senate. In Each and Every Package; Monotony; Cinder Block; Sight Unseen. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10. Please note that we don't use a "comic guide" grading system, and OUR grading scale is completely different from standard comic book grading. Our "very good" is completely different from a comic book graded "very good". Note that this comic book will be sent to the winning bidder in a brand new Mylite4 protective sleeve and a full-back 100% acid-free backing board. Note: We have 19 images of this comic book, but due to a space limitation, only TEN of the 19 images are displayed above. However, there is a "supersize" link to the right of those images that lets you see the other 9. Note that due to the greater interest in this comic we have pictured EVERY single page of this comic, which means that you can see EVERY defect the comic has, AND get a good sense of its condition. While we gave the comic an overall condition grade (and sometimes describe the defects in words) please rely on the actual images of the comic to help you decide what YOU think its condition is, and then bid or not bid based on what you are seeing in the images. And if you have ANY doubt as to what the condition of the comic is, or whether you want it in the condition it is is, then please do not bid, as we do not want any retracted bids or returns if at all possible. If in doubt, do not bid!. Condition: good, with old restoration. The comic was lightly folded down the middle at one time and there are tiny creases and scuffs in that area. It had separation in the top 4" of the spine. Someone put tape on the inside of the top of the spine to "restore" it and the tape has darkened. They also did slight touch up to the creases and scuffs in the top half of the middle of the cover (they are not in the severed head). Learn More about condition grades 
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