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Title: FIGHT AGAINST CRIME No. 19
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Publisher:Story [Indicia: Story Comics, Inc.]
Date Published: May, 1954
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VG- (3.5). Spine roll, spine ends nicked, 3/4" chipped split to spine above bottom staple, slight staple pull, top right corner of front cover and some pages creased, crease mark to bottom right corner of front cover, shallow chips to bottom corners of two leaves, centerfold loose at bottom staple and pulled at top staple. Off-white pages. Cover: No credits. Art: Ross Andru, Hy Flesihman, John D'Agostino, Bill Savage. Overstreet: "Bondage/torture cover." GPAnalysis: A 3.5 sold for $169 in 2018.

Full of twisted tales, including Hy Fleishman's "Fat-Face," in which a woman fed up with her brother's gluttony kills him and serves his roasted corpse with an apple in its mouth. "The Facts of Death," unsigned and not credited in GCD but seemingly by Bill Savage, features an adoption-and-airplane-bombing plot that combines elements of Johnny Craig's "Rendezvous!" (Crime SuspenStories #16, April-May, 1953) with Craig's "The Tryst" (Shock SuspenStories #11, Oct.-Nov., 1953).

"By issue #19, Story had taken the lid off. This comic is violent and bloody. The cover features a broken-bottle battle and the lead story begins with a gruesome back-stabbing. In 'The Facts of Death,' a woman debates the various ways she could kill her cheating husband: her imagination graphically illustrates the methods: shooting, poisoning, stabbing, strangulation, etc. She finally ends up planting a bomb on his plane." — George Suarez, Tales To Terrible To Tell #5. NEC: 1992, p. 36.

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Consignments welcome for PBA's Fall 2022 Comic Book sale. Pre-Code Horror, Golden Age and Silver Age comics, original art, vintage comic-related photos and ephemera sought. Send inquiries to ivan@pbagalleries.com.