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cyberghostface (cyberghostface) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-04-18 20:17:00

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creator: graham ingels, publisher: ec comics, title: crime suspenstories

Jury Duty!

This one's from Crime SuspenStories #6.

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	box_in_the_box 2009-04-18 08:19 pm UTC (link)
	I recall PAD using this idea in his Captain Marvel run. Minus the incredibly obvious resolution. (Reply to this)

	daggerpen 2009-04-18 08:30 pm UTC (link)
	I kind of saw it coming- didn't realize they'd bury him alive- but really, why the heck did they wait for more jury men to die? I mean, "he's legally considered dead"? Even if that did actually work- just shoot him or stab him or something after you realize he's picking off the jury members. I mean, if he's legally dead, what type of punishment could you expect? (Reply to this) (Thread)

box_in_the_box
2009-04-18 08:38 pm UTC (link)

In a way, the problem with any number of these horror comics stories was the same as the problem with a lot of Twilight Zone episodes - the writers clearly came up with the endings first, and almost everything leading up to those endings was simply filler. Even Futurama was able to take aim at this style of writing through their show-within-a-show, "The Scary Door," an obvious parody of The Twilight Zone, which included one segment in which a scientist cackles, "I've combined all the most EVIL traits of every animal into ONE creature - I wonder what it will turn out to be?" Followed immediately by a human being walking out of the creation chamber and saying simply, "It turns out it was man." End scene. :)

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	fungo_squiggly 2009-04-19 07:40 am UTC (link)
	Shooting a dead guy is a serious offense in these here parts! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	kingrockwell 2009-04-18 10:40 pm UTC (link)
	I was kinda hoping they'd just kill him on the principle that you can't be prosecuted for murdering a dead man. I guess the self-defense clause didn't exist when this was set? Good story though, I always love these things. Thanks for posting 'em! (Reply to this)

	kagome654 2009-04-19 06:25 am UTC (link)
	Oh, a Let the Right One In icon. Very cool. Also, I like the 'we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas!' attitude of the law. Way to push your luck, Peter. (Reply to this)

dr_hermes
2009-04-19 08:29 am UTC (link)

Someone had seen 1939's SON OF FRANKENSTEIN. It's quite a swipe. Ygor (Bela Lugosi) is a shepherd who is hanged for graverobbing, but survives. His head stays at a slight angle with a hard ridge of bone where his neck had been broken. The burgomeister and villagers agree he can't be tried again, and Ygor starts killing off the jury members one by one. The difference of course is that he's using the Frankenstein Monster (Karloff) to commit the murders.

"Peter Kardoff" comes from Karloff and the character Peter in the film... Wolf von Frankenstein's little son, whom the Monster abducts.

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	psychop_rex 2009-04-19 10:12 pm UTC (link)
	I was wondering whether anyone else would get that. That's a great movie, and one of the better roles of Logosi's career. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	psychop_rex 2009-04-19 10:13 pm UTC (link)
	...'LUgosi', dammit. Why on Earth doesn't this site have a way to edit things? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	noahbrand 2009-04-23 07:13 am UTC (link)
	If I were dictator, Graham Ingels would be on the fifty-dollar bill. Just saying. (Reply to this)