Crime SuspenStories #10
In the stark, unsettling world of *Crime SuspenStories* #10, Corporal Barry Tacker returns home on leave to find his family’s rented house a nightmare of rats and insects—conditions the landlord refuses to fix. With no help from the USO and no place to turn, Barry moves his family to a hotel, only to be dragged back into the crumbling house for a final, desperate check before reclaiming his security deposit. Written by Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein, with haunting artwork by Graham Ingels and bold inks by the same, the story builds a suffocating dread in every shadow. The cover, by Johnny Craig, captures the moment’s chilling tension, while Marie Severin’s colors and Jim Wroten’s lettering ground the tale in the gritty realism of 1952.
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Corporal Tacker arrives home on leave and finds the rented, ramshackle family home teeming with rats and biting insects. When the landlord refuses to correct the conditions of the house, Barry visits the USO, but they can't help either. So, Barry moves his family to a hotel and goes to the landlord for his security deposit back, but the landlord tells him that he must check the place for damages first. When the landlord enters the house, looking for phony repairs to eat up the security deposit, the stairs collapse and he tumbles to the floors, surrounded by rats, and no one to hear him scream!
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