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Credits:

• Pencils: Johnny Craig
• Inks: Johnny Craig
• Colors: Marie Severin

Sweet Dreams!

Storyline: Martin was sorry that he ever married Pamela, and Pamela's medical condition gives him a great opportunity to do away with her. But the idea backfires in a way that he'd never suspect.

Credits:

• Script: Johnny Craig
• Pencils: Johnny Craig
• Inks: Johnny Craig
• Colors: Marie Severin
• Letters: Magica Quartet

The Perfect Place!

Storyline: Ernest Jenkins is looking to buy a secluded house in the country in order to have absolute privacy for his writing.....or so it seems on the surface. But Ernest has ulterior plans: to murder his wife, brick her up in the basement of the new house, then marry another writer, Agnes Ludlow. Unfortunately for Ernest, it seems that Jess Carney had done the same thing with his wife Amy, confessed to the Sheriff, who now serves a warrant to Jenkins to search the basement!

Credits:

• Script: Al Feldstein
• Pencils: Jack Kamen
• Inks: Jack Kamen
• Colors: Marie Severin
• Letters: Magica Quartet

The Pouch

Storyline: Hawk is returning from town, toting supplies bought with a few ounces of gold dust he had recovered from his prospecting. He informed Ward that the ore samples he'd taken with him to town to show Darby were worthless. Later, at dinner, Ward saw a quick movement by Hawk with a little pouch, which he quickly hid. Thinking Hawk was holding out on him, having gold dust in the pouch, Ward kills Hawk and seeks the elusive pouch.....which he discovers is full of salt for Daisy!

Credits:

• Script: Al Feldstein

The Electric Chair

Storyline: Pete comes home to find his wife in the arms of another man, and promptly chases him away before shooting and killing Mary. Sentenced to die in the electric chair, and not wanting to die that way, Pete flees the courtroom and makes his way of escape to the subway tunnel. Unfortunately, Pete runs into an on-coming train and dies when he touches the third rail.

Credits:

• Script: Al Feldstein
• Pencils: Fred Peters
• Inks: Fred Peters
• Colors: Marie Severin
• Letters: Magica Quartet

The Hangman's Noose

Storyline: Peter arrives home to find his wife in the arms of her lover, and he promptly pulls out a gun and kills her lover. Knowing that the death penalty in England is by the hangman's noose, and not wanting to die that way, he flees the scene into the subway tunnel, being pursued by bobbies. He attempts to enter a car, but the doors close on his tie and he is dragged (and hanged ironically) to his death.

Credits:

• Script: Al Feldstein
• Pencils: Fred Peters
• Inks: Fred Peters
• Colors: Marie Severin
• Letters: Magica Quartet

The Guillotine!

Storyline: Pierre arrives home to discover his wife in the arms of another man, so he pulls out a gun and kills them both. Sentenced to death by the guillotine, Pierre times his escape and tries to elude the gendarmes through the metro tunnel and leaps from the platform onto the rails. Unfortunately, a train is coming....he trips and falls, hitting his head.....and the train guillotines him!

Credits:

• Script: Al Feldstein
• Pencils: Fred Peters
• Inks: Fred Peters
• Colors: Marie Severin
• Letters: Magica Quartet

Private Performance

Storyline: A thief, eyeing a rich woman's jewels for some time, decides to commit robbery one evening at her home after she and her husband had retired. Once inside, he suddenly witnesses the couple arguing and the man kill his wife. Unfortunately for the thief, the man spots him and vows to kill him as well, chasing him to the basement. There the thief learns what the man had done for a living, and it was the last thing he ever learned.

Credits:

• Script: Bill Gaines
• Script: Al Feldstein
• Pencils: Graham Ingels
• Inks: Graham Ingels
• Colors: Marie Severin
• Letters: Magica Quartet