Crime Illustrated
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Crime Illustrated was a black and white magazine published by EC Comics in late 1955 and early 1956. Part of EC's Picto-Fiction line, each magazine featured 3-5 stories. The artist would draw 1-4 panels per page and text was overlaid onto the artwork. The first issue appeared with a cover date of November-December 1955.
Crime Illustrated ended up lasting a total of 2 issues. The Picto-Fiction magazines lost money from the start and when EC's Distributor went bankrupt, they had no choice but to cancel them.
Artists featued in Crime Illustrated include Joe Orlando, Bernie Krigstein, Reed Crandall, Graham Ingels, George Evans, Jack Davis and Johnny Craig.
Crime Illustrated was reprinted along with the other Picto-Fiction magazines in hardbound volumes by Russ Cochran for the first time in 2006 as part of his Complete EC Library. These reprints also published for the first time the third issue of the title, which had been producted, but was never printed.