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Series: Crime SuspenStories

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Publisher: EC

Title: Crime SuspenStories
Issue: 22
Page Count: 36
Publish Date: April-May 1954
Volume: 1
Contributors: Editor: Al Feldstein

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Story Title: [ no title ] - cover
Features:Crime SuspenStories
Pages:1
Pencils:Johnny Craig (signed)
Inks:Johnny Craig (signed)
Genre:crime


Story Title: In Each and Every Package - comic story
Features:Crime SuspenStories
Pages:8
Pencils:Reed Crandall (signed)
Inks:Reed Crandall (signed)
Colors:Marie Severin
Letters:Jim Wroten
Genre:crime
Characters:Bertha Cracken (Norman's wife, death); Bert Collie (game show host); Norman Cracken (villain); Sally (villain, former actress, poses as Norman's wife)
Synopsis:Norman and Sally conspire to kill Norman's wife so that they can go off and be together in New York. Sally had undergone plastic surgery to look just like Bertha and studied her voice from recordings in order to fool everyone and now it was up to Norman to kill Bertha with an axe, which he does. After flying to New York and checking in to a hotel with "his wife", the couple attend the filming of a radio game show, and are chosen as contestants, and win $3000. To their horror, they learn that a crew is back at Norman's back yard in Ohio, burying the treasure: right where Norman buried his wife!


Story Title: Monotony - comic story
Features:Crime SuspenStories
Pages:7
Pencils:Bernie Krigstein [as B. Krigstein] (signed)
Inks:Bernie Krigstein [as B. Krigstein] (signed)
Colors:Marie Severin
Letters:Jim Wroten
Genre:crime
Characters:Milton Gans (bank Employee); Mr. Thrumble (bank President); Mrs. Courtright (bank's largest depositor, death); Miss Cheegan (bank employee); Mr. Dillon (villain, bank employee, death)
Synopsis:Mr. Gans is called into the bank President's office and is told that the bank's largest depositor wants to withdraw $50 from her account......and Mr. Gans is to deliver it to her. Taking the money and withdrawal slip with him, Milton arrives at the old ladie's home and is greeted in a most inhospitable way. Quickly conducting business, Gans leaves wondering why wealth was wasted on a person like her. At any rate, he takes the withdrawal slip back to the bank and has Dillon attend to it. However, Dillon decides to enter $500 on Mrs. Courtright's card in stead of $50....time after time.


Story Title: Safe - text story
Pages:1
Pencils:Marie Severin
Inks:Marie Severin
Letters:typeset


Story Title: Cinder Block - 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


Story Title: Sight Unseen - comic story
Features:Crime SuspenStories
Pages:7
Pencils:Joe Orlando (signed)
Inks:Joe Orlando (signed)
Colors:Marie Severin
Letters:Jim Wroten


View this comic at comics.org. Data courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution license.

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