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Series: Crime SuspenStories

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Publisher: EC

Title: Crime SuspenStories
Issue: 17
Page Count: 36
Publish Date: June-July 1953
Volume: 1
Contributors: Editor: Albert B. Feldstein

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Crime Suspenstories #17 - Classic Suicide Cover
Owner: GradedKeyComics

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Story Title: [ no title ] - cover
Features:Crime SuspenStories
Pages:1
Pencils:Johnny Craig (signed)
Inks:Johnny Craig (signed)
Colors:Marie Severin
Genre:crime
Characters:Ronald Shelby; Anita Shelby


Story Title: Al Williamson - text article
Features:The EC "Artist of the Issue"
Pages:1
Pencils:? (photograph)
Inks:? (photograph)
Letters:typeset
Genre:biography
Characters:Al Williamson


Story Title: Touch and Go! - comic story
Features:Crime SuspenStories
Pages:8
Pencils:Johnny Craig
Inks:Johnny Craig
Colors:Marie Severin
Letters:Jim Wroten
Genre:crime
Characters:Arthur Huxley (death); William Acton (villain)
Synopsis:Acton had killed Arthur Huxley and now tried to remove any clue that he had been at Huxley's home and had committed the crime. But his fixation with eliminating evidence of his presence had its consequences.


Story Title: One for the Money... - comic story
Features:Crime SuspenStories
Pages:7
Pencils:Jack Kamen (signed)
Inks:Jack Kamen (signed)
Colors:Marie Severin
Letters:Jim Wroten
Genre:crime
Characters:Ronald Shelby (death); Anita Shelby (Ronald's wife, death); Harriet Walker (villain);Eric Walker (villain, Harriet's husband)
Synopsis:When Ronald tells his wife that he has bled his business dry and there is no more money, his wife tells him that she only cared for him because of money, and announces she's leaving him. He commits suicide, and Anita then returns to her old stomping grounds where she had found Ronald and hopes that lightning strikes again. Meanwhile, she joins an elderly woman having lunch and talks with her, then is surprised that the woman offers her to be her paid live-in companion. Arriving at the house, she confronts Harriet's husband Eric, once jilted by another woman, who craves women to get revenge on.


Story Title: Big Blow! - text story
Pages:2
Pencils:Marie Severin (masthead illustration)
Inks:Marie Severin (masthead illustration)
Colors:Marie Severin
Letters:typeset
Genre:crime
Characters:Henderson (Markel's partner, death); Markel (villain, imminent death)
Synopsis:While traveling by car, Markel spots his partner asleep and kills him with a wrench. Locating a spot to discard the bloody instrument, he hurls it out the window, then locates a likely spot to engineer a crash with a semi truck so that the Police would not suspect the reality of his partner's head wound. Unfortunately, he discovers his car is traveling too fast to stop as planned......then as he approaches the rear of the truck, he spots a signed which said: DANGER! NITROGLYCERIN!!!


Story Title: Fired! - comic story
Features:Crime SuspenStories
Pages:6
Pencils:Al Williamson (signed)
Inks:Al Williamson (signed); Frank Frazetta [as Fritz] (signed)
Colors:Marie Severin
Letters:Jim Wroten
Genre:crime
Characters:Roy Willis (hired hand); Amy Ryan; Patricia Gibson (villain, Circle-Diamond owner)
Synopsis:As the owner of a cattle ranch, Patricia is getting lonely and longs for a man. That man is Roy Willis, a ranch hand who talks her into making him foreman. But soon he bores of Pat and seeks adventure in town with another woman. But Pat discovers the pair and decides to give Roy something to remember her by!


Story Title: ...Two for the Show! - comic story
Features:Crime SuspenStories
Pages:7
Pencils:Bill Elder [as Elder] (signed); Jack Kamen (last panel)
Inks:Bill Elder [as Elder] (signed); Jack Kamen (last panel)
Colors:Marie Severin
Letters:Jim Wroten
Genre:crime
Characters:unnamed detective; Sarah Jameson (Harry's wife, death); Harry Jameson (villain); Harriet Walker (villain, cameo); Harriet's son (villain, cameo)
Synopsis:Harry has killed his wife and made it look as if she never came home from work. A perfect crime, until a nosy detective smells a rat!


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