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[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): Johnny Craig (signed)

Inker(s): Johnny Craig (signed)

Colorist(s): Marie Severin

Letterer(s): Jim Wroten

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories

Character(s): Lizzie Borden; Andrew Borden; Abbie Borden

First Line: Lizzie Borden took an axe...and gave her father forty whacks!

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Crime Suspenstories #13 published November 1995
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]

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Pages: 1

Hear No Evil!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Al Feldstein

Penciller(s): Jack Kamen [as Kamen] (signed)

Inker(s): Johnny Craig [as Craig] (signed)

Colorist(s): Marie Severin

Letterer(s): Jim Wroten

Subject Matter

Genres: crime

Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories

Character(s): Fred Reardon; Irma (Mrs. Reardon's friend); unnamed detective; Rita Waldon Reardon (villain); Vance Tobin (villain, Fred's business associate, death)

Synopsis: Rita is introduced to Fred Reardon at a party and sets her sights on marrying this rather wealthy man, even though he is stone deaf.....for his money, of course. Soon, she falls in love with Vance Tobin and together they plot to kill Fred. However, Fred is involved in a car accident soon after and regains his hearing, unbeknownst to Vance and Rita, and he overhears the plot to poison him.

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Crime Suspenstories #13 published November 1995
as Hear No Evil! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Pages: 8

Notes: Some of the story is told in flashback.

First Impulse!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Al Feldstein

Penciller(s): Sid Check (signed)

Inker(s): Sid Check (signed)

Colorist(s): Marie Severin

Letterer(s): Jim Wroten

Subject Matter

Genres: crime

Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories

Character(s): Joan Forbes (Helen's sister, death); Bob (Helen's boyfriend, death); unnamed delivery man; Helen Forbes (villain)

Synopsis: Joan and Helen are at each other's throats, as Helen believes that her sister is making eyes at Bob, her boyfriend. In addition, Helen also overhears the two planning a lunch at a cafe when they will surprise her with some news. So, Helen follows the two, and when she sees the two enter a jewelry store and pick out a ring, she feels her fears are validated. Later, Helen awaits the two coming home and she kills them both....then receives a package from a delivery boy containing a wedding ring engraved to her from Bob!

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Crime Suspenstories #13 published November 1995
as First Impulse! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Pages: 4

Notes: Quickie #1 of 2.

Second Chance?

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Al Feldstein

Penciller(s): Sid Check (signed)

Inker(s): Sid Check (signed)

Colorist(s): Marie Severin

Letterer(s): Jim Wroten

Subject Matter

Genres: crime

Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories

Character(s): Helen Forbes; unnamed delivery man; Bob; Joan Forbes

Synopsis: Helen is waiting for Bob and Rita to return home and she confronts them both with a gun, accusing Joan of attempting to steal her boyfriend from her. They protest, just as the delivery man from the jewelry store arrives with the package with the wedding ring in it. Helen apologizes to Bob and Joan before Bob is to leaver on a train on business. Joan offers to drive him to the station. Thinking all is well, Helen sits down to relax and notices a letter on her night table from Joan, informing Helen that the pair have left together on the train and she will never see either of them again!

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Crime Suspenstories #13 published November 1995
as Second Chance? [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Pages: 3

Notes: Quickie #2 of 2.

Freak!

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Al Feldstein

Penciller(s): ? (masthead illustration)

Inker(s): ? (masthead illustration)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: crime

Character(s): Moose (Egan's boxing manager, death); unnamed usher; unnamed Policeman; Kayo Egan (villain, boxer)

Synopsis: Kayo informs his manager that he is cutting him out of his financial arrangement as of the moment, then smashes an iron pail over Moose's head and drags the body away from the dressing room. Later, when the Police question Kayo about the crime, Kayo makes a fatal admission.

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Crime Suspenstories #13 published November 1995
as Freak! [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Pages: 1

A Question of Time!!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Al Feldstein

Penciller(s): Al Williamson (signed)

Inker(s): Al Williamson

Colorist(s): Marie Severin

Letterer(s): Jim Wroten

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories

Character(s): Lila Wismer (Harry's wife, death); unnamed female (death); Fred (mortician); unnamed Sheriff; Harry Wismer (villain)

Synopsis: A woman is found murdered and horribly mutilated, in a tourist cabin and the suspicion is that Harry Wismer has murdered his wife. They are wrong......at least for the time being!

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Crime Suspenstories #13 published November 1995
as A Question of Time!! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #3 published March 2013
as A Question of Time!! [Story on Interior Page(s)]black and white reprint

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Notes: The reprint book, "50 Girls 50," lists Williamson as the sole inker.

Inker previously listed as Angelo Torres. Per Angelo himself, "I did not ink this story. I was still in Korea in November of 1952."

Forty Whacks!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Al Feldstein

Penciller(s): Jack Kamen (signed)

Inker(s): Jack Kamen (signed)

Colorist(s): Marie Severin

Letterer(s): Jim Wroten

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Feature(s): The Haunt of Fear

Character(s): The Old Witch (host); Sid Weston (Fanny's father, death); Ruth Weston (Fanny's mother, death); Detective Ernie Vance (death); Edith Vance (Ernie's wife, death); Dougherty (Policeman); Andrew Borden (death, in flashback); Abbie Borden (Lizzie's step mother, death, in flashback); Emma Borden (Lizzie's sister, in flashback); Maggie (the Borden's servant, in flashback); Lizzie Borden (villain, in flashback); Fanny Weston (villain); the Vance's young son (villain)

Synopsis: Fanny is 22 years old, but her parents will not let her use makeup, choose her own clothing or date boys, and she has had it up to here over it. Running up to the attic, she discovers an old hatchet, and a plan forms in her mind. Later, a detective investigates the murder of both of Fanny's parents and she pleads that she is innocent, that it was the hatchet that killed them. Later, Edith Vance tells her husband that Fanny may be right, as that hatchet was the same one used by Lizzie Borden to kill her father and step mother. Then they noticed their son had the hatchet and was coming for them.

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Crime Suspenstories #13 published November 1995
as Forty Whacks! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Pages: 7

Notes: Cover story.

Some of the story is told in flashback.