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In 1953, Al Feldstein wrote "Fall Guy for Murder" for artist Johnny Craig. 1 / 17
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Feldstein got Reed Crandall to fix it and Krigstein didn't work for EC again. 2 / 17
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Krigstein, though, couldn't let the husband get away with it, so he re-drew the ending! 3 / 17
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Krigstein followed the same story to the tee, with the book luring the detective in. 4 / 17
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Feldstein liked the story so much that he had Krigstein re-draw it for Crime Illustrated. 5 / 17
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The detective shoots first, but kills the wife! It was all a set-up! 6 / 17
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The book describes their exact situation, including the husband killing the detective. 7 / 17
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The detective believes a book hidden in the husband's apartment holds the truth. 8 / 17
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A man hires a detective, his wife's ex-boyfriend, to find her after she goes missing. 9 / 17
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"Master Race," by Al Feldstein and Bernard Krigstein, is about a man haunted by the past. 10 / 17
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That desire for freedom, though, led to Krigstein splitting with EC in 1955. 11 / 17
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You can see on the original art where he cut and pasted the letters. 12 / 17
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He got the okay, but only if he'd fix the lettering himself (which was already done). 13 / 17
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Krigstein loved the story, but felt that it needed more pages than the original six allotted. 14 / 17
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He sees a former prisoner (or THINKS he does) and freaks out and kills himself. 15 / 17
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However, it turns out that he is an escaped German war criminal who RAN a camp! 16 / 17
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He appears to be a Jewish man haunted by the horrors of the Holocaust. 17 / 17
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