Crime SuspenStories #24
"Double-Crossed" in Crime SuspenStories #24 (1954) delivers a chilling tale of guilt and retribution, where a man’s desperate act of murder unravels under the weight of his own conscience. Written by Carl Wessler and brought to life with stark, haunting visuals by Jack Kamen—whose pencils and inks define the story’s oppressive mood—this issue follows Bart as his secret festers beneath a new life with Lita, now his wife and heir. Cover by George Evans captures the icy dread of the tale, as the frozen face of the dead Lloyd emerges from the sea ice in a moment of terrifying inevitability.
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In Quebec, Bart is having an affair with Lita, the wife of a rich man named Lloyd. They kill him when he comes home early from a trip. Bart buries Lloyd under some frozen ice hoping in the spring the currents will drag his corpse out to sea. Afterwards Rita inherits his fortune and marries Bart. However Bart is going insane as he's constantly haunted by dreams of Lloyd's rotted face in ice glaring at him. Lita takes him on an ocean cruise to help clear his mind, but at sea the ship gets hit by an iceberg. They notice the frozen face of Lloyd glaring at them inside the ice as they get crushed.
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