Crime SuspenStories Volume 2

 

Pretty much everything that I had to say about the first edition of these EC reprints goes for this second installment. These pre-comic code stories are fast, well-written, and filled with twists'n'turns, especially considering when they were released. The artists here include greats like Johnny Craig, Jack Davis, Graham Ingels, Jack Kamen and more and I just noticed that the colorist on many of these is none other than Marie Severin, who went on to do lots of art work for Marvel Comics.

Again, while the main theme here is "crime", there is plenty of overlap with horror - to the point of including EC's horror hostess The Old Witch in the introduction to some of the tales - due to the fact that most of the crime is murder! Usually for love, revenge or money and usually in some especially gruesome manner. but mostly with some form of retribution of justice at the end so that the bad guys don't get away with anything.

You probably already know if you dig EC, so not much that I can say, but these are excellent reproductions at a totally reasonable price. Well worth it!