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Issue: Crime SuspenStories #16
Publication Date: April 1953
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Issues: #16 of 27 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagEC
Brand: EC An Entertaining ComicView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: L. L. Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 12/12/1952
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On sale date as given in the copyright application as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, 1952, page 66, registration number B390687.
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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
Format Notes:  
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMs. Tree #18 published May 1985
as E.C. Fans! [Advertisement on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMs. Tree #19 published June 1985
as E.C. Fans! [Advertisement on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMs. Tree #20 published July 1985
as E.C. Fans! [Advertisement on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMs. Tree #21 published September 1985
as [untitled] [Advertisement on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #3/1989 published January 1989
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #4 published January 1991
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagCrime Suspenstories #16 published August 1996
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Colorist credit by Craig Delich.
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Rendezvous!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
Character(s): Ruby (Joe's secretary); Nickie (Joe's girl); Charlie (a gambler); Mr. Holmes (Book Keeping department head, death); Joe Haines (villain, book keeper, embezzler, death)
First Line: This is Las Vegas, Nevada...
Synopsis: Joe and his office companions are taking bets that Charlie will have an airplane accident.....just as a lark. Then, when Joe's boss suspects that the company's books are being juggled, Joe devises a plan to make sure his boss will have a plane accident himself. He does, but with disastrous results for Joe.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #4 published January 1991
as Rendezvous! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCrime Suspenstories #16 published August 1996
as Rendezvous! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Letterer credit by Craig Delich.
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Fission Bait!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
Character(s): Louise Miller (Eddie's wife, death); Colonel Andrew Forbes (Army procurement officer); Pat Walton (Eddie's new love interest); Eddie Miller (villain)
First Line: When the first atom bomb was exploded at Alamagordo, New Mexico...
Synopsis: When Eddie's wife showed him the newspaper announcing the end of World War II, Eddie was not a happy camper. His machine shop prospered during the war, thanks to government contracts.....but those now ended. However, Eddie had a visitor from the Army, who was going to award his firm another government contract for the special fuse casings he had produced during the war. But these casings had to be exact with no leeway as they were to be used for atomic bombs. On a trip to Los Angeles, Eddie meets a new girl, one that Louise finds out about, and Eddie must find a way to eliminate his wife.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #4 published January 1991
as Fission Bait! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCrime Suspenstories #16 published August 1996
as Fission Bait! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Scorpion

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (masthead illustration)
Inker(s): ? (masthead illustration)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): John Whitman (a blacksmith, town Mayor); El Alacron [aka the Scorpion] (villain, death)
Synopsis: Town Mayor, John Whitman, had been Mayor of Tranquility some twenty-eight years, as well as the local smithy, spending much of his time welding brake rods and chains, and the like. One day, a stranger rode into town: dressed in black riding a white horse, and he came to Whitman to repair his gun. Upon viewing the intricate silver scorpions engraved on the pistol's handle, and he knew that this man was the dreaded desperado, The Scorpion. He fixed the gun, handed it back, and the man left, later to attempt to rob a Wells-Fargo stage...but the gun would not fire with a filed down hammer!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Come Clean!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, crime
Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
Character(s): Death (host); Ralph Jansen (aka Jensen) (death); Lillian Smith (flashback); Nick (saloon owner, flashback); unnamed Prison Warden (flashback); Mrs. Woodman (Lillian's landlady, flashback) ; unnamed District Attorney (flashback); Ben (prison guard, flashback); Mr. Sutton (tailor, flashback)
First Line: In a few minutes... at exactly eleven p.m. ... I am going to die!
Synopsis: Ralph Jansen has been found guilty of strangling his girl friend and is strapped in the electric chair facing a horrible death, all for a crime he didn't commit but in which circumstantial evidence led to his conviction. By the time he thought of the clue that prove his innocence, thousands of volts coursed through his body.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #4 published January 1991
as Come Clean! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCrime Suspenstories #16 published August 1996
as Come Clean! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #3 published March 2013
as Come Clean! [Story on Interior Page(s)]black and white reprint
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: The "50 Girls 50" reprint volume does not list Torres as the inker; it credits Williamson alone for the art.
Inker previously listed as Angelo Torres. Per Angelo himself, "I did not ink this story. In May of 1953 I had not yet met Al Williamson and I was just beginning art school at C&I."
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Who's Next?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Haunt of Fear
Character(s): The Old Witch (host); Anna (Tony's wife); Mr. Spordman (shop owner); Mr. Barker (bank president, death); Mr. Riffle; Tony (villain, barber)
First Line: Hee, hee! So it's guest-spot time again for me!
Synopsis: Tony sensed that something was wrong in the home, as his wife Anna was very cold toward him and not affectionate any longer. The flowers he bought her and the offer to go to a movie didn't interest her one bit. One day he left his barber shop and went home early, only to discover his wife in the arms of the local bank president. Crushed, he headed back to his barber shop and awaited Mr. Barker, who wanted a haircut. Tony pulled out his straight razor and went to work on the man...........
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #4 published January 1991
as Who's Next? [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCrime Suspenstories #16 published August 1996
as Who's Next? [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Cover story.

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