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Issue: Suspense #1
Publication Date: December 1949
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Issues: #1 of 29 Issues
Title:
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Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel Comic [round logo]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Cornell Publishing Corp.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 10 (6 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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reprinted 3 times as Content Items in other Issues.
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The Bride Vanishes!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Colorist(s): ? (photograph)
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Photograph of actors Peter Lorre, Sidney Greenstreet, and Joan Lorring from Warner Bros. Pictures' The Verdict (1946).
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The Graveyard Ghouls!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Synopsis: Dr. Arnold buys corpses from Mrs. Slade's gang. However, the police capture the gang in the act. The "dead body" they sold Arnold turns out to be Peggy, who was to rob the house during the night. Arnold falls in love with Peggy and decides to marry her while the rest of Mrs. Slade's gang are arrested.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Job Number: 6653
Disclose Notes: Adapted from John Dickson Carr's Suspense episode "the Body Snatchers" (November 24, 1942). Info from http://section244.blogspot.com/
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Buy Magazines with the Circular Seal

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The Corpse Came Back!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Henry Wilson; Charles Dobbs; Tom Higby; Jim
Synopsis: Henry kills his boss Dobbs at night, but Tom sees him leaving. Henry seemingly kills Tom and leaves his body in Charles' office, but the next day Henry keeps seeing Tom around the office. Henry is driven mad and leaps out the building to his death, not realizing the police arranged for Tom to ply at Henry's guilty conscience by posing as his own ghost.
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Pages: 6
Job Number: 6656
Disclose Notes: Adapted from the Suspense radio episode "Statement of Employee Henry Wilson" by John Shaw, broadcast November 2, 1943.
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Casey Crime Photographer

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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: "Only C.B.S. could give you such a thrilling radio program! Only the Marvel Comic Group could put Casey into his own magazine ..."
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The Curse of the Coin

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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In Content Item: FlagSuspense #6 published January 1951
as The Curse of the Coin [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagVenus #13 published April 1951
as The Evil Coin [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]as "The Evil Coin"
In Content Item: FlagMen's Adventures #23 published September 1953
as The Midas Curse! [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]retitled
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Pages: 2
Job Number: SL-6252
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The Bride Vanishes!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: horror
Synopsis: Tom and Lucy stay at a villa where Josephine Adams once mysteriously disappeared from a balcony. The same thing happens to Lucy, but she's found in the Blue Grotto below and saved in a boat. The boat tips over and Countess Luchesi drowns, but Count Luchesi admits his jealous wife was the person hurling women from the balconies.
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Pages: 8
Job Number: 6655
Disclose Notes: Adapted from John Dickson Carr's Suspense episode "the Bride Vanishes" (December 1, 1942).
Pencils credit from atlastales.com
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You Asked for It!

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Feature(s): Man Comics #1
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Here Comes the Hangman!

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Genres: horror
Synopsis: Helen is about to be hung for murdering Philip, but Dr. Wise proves the actual killer was Herbert.
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Pages: 8
Job Number: 6654
Disclose Notes: Adapted from John Dickson Carr's Suspense episode "The Hangman Won't Wait" (February 9, 1943).
Pencils credit from atlastales.com
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Alone with Murder!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: horror
Synopsis: Beth mistakes Marty for the killer targeting women in New York.
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Pages: 7
Job Number: 6621
Disclose Notes: Pencils and inks credits from atlastales.com

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