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Series: Crime SuspenStories

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Publisher: EC

Title: Crime SuspenStories
Issue: 18
Page Count: 36
Publish Date: August-September 1953
Volume: 1
Contributors: Editor: Albert B. Feldstein

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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


Story Title: Fall Guy for Murder - comic story
Features:Crime SuspenStories
Pages:8
Pencils:Johnny Craig (signed)
Inks:Johnny Craig (signed)
Colors:Marie Severin
Letters:Jim Wroten
Genre:crime
Characters:Edith Wilson [Edith Colby] (Harry's wife, death); Gregg Saunders (private detective, death); Phil (city coroner); Harry Wilson (villain)
Synopsis:Harry calls in his good friend, best man and private-eye, Gregg Saunders, to investigate the sudden disappearance of his wife, Edith. He finds a clue in a murder mystery novel called "Fall Guy For Murder", but, in the end, it is Gregg who turns out to be the fall guy!


Story Title: Juice for the Record! - comic story
Features:Crime SuspenStories
Pages:7
Pencils:Bill Elder (signed)
Inks:Bill Elder (signed)
Colors:Marie Severin
Letters:Jim Wroten
Genre:crime
Characters:Old Pop Martin (City Hospital Chief Electrician); Doctor Fielding; Richie Martin (villain, Pop's son, death); Ernie Butler (villain, death)
Synopsis:Seeing his only son involved with shady criminal elements, old Pop Martin tries to persuade his son to get away from that element and turn to decent pursuits. When he refuses and is shot by a crook that he supposedly swindled, Pop decides to record a confession implicating himself as the murderer of a crook giving Richie a hard time.


Story Title: Eight Bar Rest - text story
Pages:1
Pencils:Marie Severin
Inks:Marie Severin
Colors:Marie Severin
Letters:typeset
Genre:crime
Characters:Blackstone Presterjohn (attorney); Inspector Hardsteel (mention only); Ernie Treble (trumpet player, death); Barney Butz (villain, saxophone player)
Synopsis:Sure that his counselor-at-law can get him off on a temporary insanity plea, Barney tells his attorney in the prison cell block how he was hired, along with fellow musician Ernie Treble, to play a gig at a local club; but Ernie was a fanatic for facts, and every time the duo broke into song, Ernie would bore Barney to death with facts. Eventually, that led Barney to sever their relationship -- permanently!


Story Title: Frozen Assets! - comic story
Features:Crime SuspenStories
Pages:6
Pencils:Jack Kamen [as Kamen] (signed)
Inks:Jack Kamen [as Kamen] (signed)
Colors:Marie Severin
Letters:Jim Wroten
Genre:crime
Characters:Jasper Wentworth (lawyer, death); Mildred Wentworth (Jasper's Aunt, death); unnamed doctor; Mort (villain, Helen's lover); Helen Wentworth (villain, Jasper's wife)
Synopsis:Lovers Mort and Helen, wanting to insure that Helen's husband (and thus her as well) would receive his aunt's $200,000+ inheritance, murder the husband and hide him away in a freezer, awaiting the aunt's death. Unfortunately, that move proves to be very costly for the both of them!


Story Title: From Here to Insanity - comic story
Features:Crime SuspenStories
Pages:7
Pencils:Reed Crandall [as R. Crandall] (signed)
Inks:Reed Crandall [as R. Crandall] (signed)
Colors:Marie Severin
Letters:Jim Wroten
Genre:crime
Characters:Mrs. Greene (old woman); Mr. Tucker (apartment manager); unnamed policemen; a homicidal maniac (villain)
Synopsis:A homicidal maniac, having committed several murders of young women because they could identify him, takes up residence in an old woman's apartment in order not to be discovered by the police. But he is in for a surprise in a way he could never expect!


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