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Series: Crime SuspenStories

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Publisher: EC

Title: Crime SuspenStories
Issue: 9
Page Count: 36
Publish Date: February-March 1952
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
Characters:Alice; Brad


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


Story Title: Understudy to a Corpse! - comic story
Pages:8
Pencils:Johnny Craig (signed)
Inks:Johnny Craig (signed)
Colors:Marie Severin
Letters:Jim Wroten
Genre:crime
Characters:Brad; Alice (Brad's wife); Cyrus Klitch (miserly hypocrite, death, in flashback); Myra (villain, Klitch's nurse, in flashback); Jeremy (villain, Klitch's nephew, death, in flashback)
Synopsis:Brad and Alice discover an old trunk in the attic of their new home....a trunk containing the bones of a corpse. And the story concerning those bones involves several murders over money.


Story Title: Medicine! - comic story
Features:Crime SuspenStories
Pages:7
Pencils:Jack Kamen (signed)
Inks:Jack Kamen (signed)
Colors:Marie Severin
Letters:Jim Wroten
Genre:crime
Characters:Dr. Luther Haines (famed surgeon); Sally Doyle (Luther's nurse); Nora Bates Haines (villain, Luther's wife, death)
Synopsis:When Luther arrives home late from surgery, his wife Nora rushes away in the car, even though her husband tries to tell her something. She recounts how she met Luther, and the quick wedding (only for his money, not love). Later, she discovers Luther had to have his meds every day at 4pm and counted on Miss Doyle reminding him of that. But Nora is jealous of Miss Doyle, who went with Luther everywhere. So Nora decides to poison Luther's meds. Unfortunately, Nora gets into an accident because of bad brakes on the car and only her husband can operate....after he takes his meds, that is!


Story Title: Accident - text story
Pages:2
Pencils:? (masthead illustration)
Inks:? (masthead illustration)
Letters:typeset
Genre:crime
Characters:Shinwell (party host); Mary Munsey (Muncie's wife); Alfred Munsey (villain)
Synopsis:Sick and tired of his wife dressing him down in front of the people attending the Shinwell party, Alfred decides the time had come to kill his wife. Pulling into their garage and closing its door, Alfred choked his wife to death, then left the car running to simulate death by carbon monoxide poisoning. Unfortunately, Alfred had imbibed so much booze at the party that, he passed out......permanently!


Story Title: [ no title ] - letters page
Features:SuspenStory Scribblings!
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


Story Title: Cut! - comic story
Features:Crime SuspenStories
Pages:6
Pencils:Jack Davis (signed)
Inks:Jack Davis (signed)
Colors:Marie Severin
Letters:Jim Wroten
Genre:crime
Characters:John Hammond (screen idol, death); Emery Edwards (movie director); Marx (lighting man); Pierre Marcel (Slade's make-up man); Billings (Hammond's butler); Russell Slade (villain, stand-in for Hammond, death)
Synopsis:Vain movie stand-in Russell Slade, realizing that his make-up man makes the actor look exactly like John Hammond, devises a plan to get rid of the actor and take his place. But the plan backfires in an unexpected way.


Story Title: A Tree Grows in Borneo! - comic story
Features:Haunt of Fear
Pages:7
Pencils:Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)
Inks:Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)
Colors:Marie Severin
Letters:Jim Wroten
Genre:horror-suspense
Characters:The Old Witch (host); George Wilkers (death); Amos Hall (villain, death)
Synopsis:George and Amos are exploring dense Borneo jungles in search of a proper location for company mine development when they discover ancient temples built by the Kenyahs, a people who buried their dead inside hollowed out trees. George is interested in the solid gold roofs of the temples, but Amos explains a curse on anyone desecrating the temples. They bring gold back, sharing it, but Amos gets greedy and decides to kill George and not share the rest of the gold. When he returns to the Kenyah temples to get more gold, the curse strikes him down.


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