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Issue: Crime SuspenStories #25
Publication Date: October 1954
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Issues: #25 of 27 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagEC
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: L. L. Publishing Co., Inc.
On Sale Date: 1954
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 7 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Albert B. Feldstein
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Jack Kamen [as Kamen] (signed)
Inker(s): Jack Kamen [as Kamen] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
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In Content Item: FlagCrime Suspenstories #25 published November 1998
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Are You a Red Dupe?

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Lyle Stuart; Bill Gaines
Penciller(s): Jack Davis
Inker(s): Jack Davis
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, opinion
Character(s): Melvin Blizunken
Synopsis: This editorial illustrated page purports that the Communists are the ones trying to destroy the comic magazine industry, citing the Soviet "Daily Worker" newspaper and Dr. Frederick Wertham.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.

Tongue in cheek editorial parody in an attempt to link efforts to destroy comics to Communists.

Writer credits from Lyle Stuart himself, during an interview by Bill Spicer in Squa Tront (Fantagraphics, 2002 series) #12 (2007); and from Grant Geissman's book, Tales of Terror!: The EC Companion (Fantagraphics, 2000 series), who lists the writer as Bill Gaines; as well as Frank Jacobs' The MAD World of William M. Gaines (Carol Publishing Group, 1973 series) notes that Gaines worked with Stuart on the piece. Original indexer credited Albert B. Feldstein
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Three for the Money

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Otto Binder
Penciller(s): Jack Kamen [as Kamen] (signed)
Inker(s): Jack Kamen [as Kamen] (signed)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
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In Content Item: FlagCrime Suspenstories #25 published November 1998
as Three For The Money [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Dog Food

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jack Oleck ?
Penciller(s): Reed Crandall
Inker(s): Reed Crandall
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #5 [1988] published January 1988
as Bikkjemat [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCrime Suspenstories #25 published November 1998
as Dog Food [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion. Previous indexer had Al Feldstein.
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Prize Catch

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Albert B. Feldstein
Penciller(s): Marie Severin
Inker(s): Marie Severin
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Typeset
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In Content Item: FlagCrime Suspenstories #25 published November 1998
as Prize Catch [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Key Chain

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jack Oleck
Penciller(s): Al Feldstein (layouts); Bernie Krigstein [as B. Krigstein] (signed)
Inker(s): Bernie Krigstein [as B. Krigstein] (signed)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
Character(s): Mrs. Hodges; Roy (hotel desk clerk); Mr. Unger [as John Miller] (villain);
Synopsis: John Miller was looking for a patsy to be able to take advantage of for larcenous purposes and succeeded, he thought, when he met the wealthy Mrs. Hodges, who said she had a fabulous diamond collection, which he desired. But first he would have to obtain a master key to her place, which he arranged cleverly to do. However, things didn't quite work out the way he wished.
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In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss album #2 published May 1990
as Helt låst! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCrime Suspenstories #25 published November 1998
as Key Chain [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagB. Krigstein Comics #[nn] published July 2004
as Key Chain [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMessages in a Bottle: Comic Book Stories by B. Krigstein #[nn] published April 2013
as Key Chain [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Script credit from Messages in a Bottle: Comic Book Stories by B. Krigstein (Fantagraphics, 2013 series).

Layout credit from "Master Race and Other Stories" (March 2018). Added by Craig Delich.
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The Squealer

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jack Oleck ?
Penciller(s): George Evans [as Geo. Evans] (signed)
Inker(s): George Evans [as Geo. Evans] (signed)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
Character(s): Cora Zimmer (Ed's wife); Jerry Zimmer (Ed's son, death); (Lieutenant Ed Zimmer (villain, Police detective); Sergeant Bert Bronson (villain, Police detective); Waxy (villain, robber, safe cracker); Hurley (villain)
Synopsis: A couple of crafty Police detectives devise a scheme where they arrest a suspect, beat him up until he signs a confession which they use to blackmail the criminal.
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In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #5 [1988] published January 1988
as Tysteren [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCrime Suspenstories #25 published November 1998
as The Squealer [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion. Previous indexer had Al Feldstein.

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