The EC Archives: Crime Suspenstories #3

This handsome Dark Horse hardcover collects issues 13–18 of EC Comics' Crime SuspenStories, gathering six issues of the publisher's celebrated crime anthology in one sturdy volume. Johnny Craig's cover art sets the mood immediately — a wild-eyed, desperate figure grips another man by the collar, a knife clutched in hand, every line radiating the coiled tension that made EC's crime output so gripping in its day. With a foreword by David Del Valle and Craig's own inks giving the imagery its raw, unflinching edge, this is a satisfying way to revisit EC's "jolting tales of tension in the EC tradition.