Crime SuspenStories #23
In "This'll Kill You!", Otto Binder crafts a chilling tale of paranoia and mistaken identity, illustrated with stark precision by Reed Crandall and colored with haunting subtlety by Marie Severin. When Victor Gattling turns himself in, claiming he murdered his friend Joe after a deadly lab accident, the police are left reeling—only to uncover a twist rooted in a cruel prank that spiraled out of control. The cover, by George Evans, captures the story’s mounting dread with a single, unforgettable image.
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The police are stunned when Victor Gattling brings in the dead body of his best friend Joe and then claims that he has been killed by him! He tells the puzzled cops that while he and Joe were working as lab partners, Joe had accidentally stuck Victor with a syringe containing the Bubonic plague. Later Joe tells Victor that he did it on purpose because Victor kept taking all the credit for their work. Victor hunts down Joe and murders him. It's later revealed that the syringe contained water and that it was an April Fool's joke. Victor had killed his friend for nothing!
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