E.C. Classic Reprint #3

In "Deadline," a down-on-his-luck ex-reporter with a drinking problem gets a shot at redemption when his old boss offers him his job back—if he can deliver a story. Sitting in a quiet diner, he hears a commotion next door, only to witness the owner confess to a murder. With a sudden spark of purpose, he begins to gather the details, unaware that the girl he’d met earlier—whose fate he’d already assumed—might still be alive… and right there with him.

In "The Kidnapper," a desperate father’s world unravels when his infant son is taken, plunging his wife into a spiral of grief that fractures her mind. As his own sanity frays, he makes a horrifying mistake—one that leads a horrified crowd to attack him, believing he’s stolen a child, when in truth he’s trying to reclaim his own.

In "Fall Guy," a man released after fifteen years in prison seeks the woman who promised to wait for him, only to find her furious that he can’t remember the alias he used to hide a stolen fortune. As the past closes in, his desperate attempt to reclaim what he lost ends in a final, haunting moment on a rooftop, where fading neon letters spell the name he can’t quite hold onto.