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Issue: Crime SuspenStories #18
Publication Date: August 1953
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Issues: #18 of 27 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagEC
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: L. L. Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 04/02/1953
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, January-June 1953, page 42, registration number B407902.
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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: FlagIskalde Grøss #5/1994 published January 1994
as Ingen utvei! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagCrime Suspenstories #18 published February 1997
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Colorist credit by Craig Delich.
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Fall Guy for Murder

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
Character(s): Edith Wilson [Edith Colby] (Harry's wife, death); Gregg Saunders (private detective, death); Phil (city coroner); Harry Wilson (villain)
Synopsis: Harry calls in his good friend, best man and private-eye, Gregg Saunders, to investigate the sudden disappearance of his wife, Edith. He finds a clue in a murder mystery novel called "Fall Guy For Murder", but, in the end, it is Gregg who turns out to be the fall guy!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #4 published February 1992
as Fall Guy for Murder [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #1/1993 published January 1993
as Uthengt for mord! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCrime Suspenstories #18 published February 1997
as Fall Guy For Murder [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Letterer credit verified by Al Feldstein.
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Juice for the Record!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
Character(s): Old Pop Martin (City Hospital Chief Electrician); Doctor Fielding; Richie Martin (villain, Pop's son, death); Ernie Butler (villain, death)
Synopsis: Seeing his only son involved with shady criminal elements, old Pop Martin tries to persuade his son to get away from that element and turn to decent pursuits. When he refuses and is shot by a crook that he supposedly swindled, Pop decides to record a confession implicating himself as the murderer of a crook giving Richie a hard time.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #7/1990 published January 1990
as Til siste gnist! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #4 published February 1992
as Juice for the Record! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCrime Suspenstories #18 published February 1997
as Juice for the Record! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Letterer credit verified by Al Feldstein.

The Martin's address is 195 Birch.
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Eight Bar Rest

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Blackstone Presterjohn (attorney); Inspector Hardsteel (mention only); Ernie Treble (trumpet player, death); Barney Butz (villain, saxophone player)
Synopsis: Sure that his counselor-at-law can get him off on a temporary insanity plea, Barney tells his attorney in the prison cell block how he was hired, along with fellow musician Ernie Treble, to play a gig at a local club; but Ernie was a fanatic for facts, and every time the duo broke into song, Ernie would bore Barney to death with facts. Eventually, that led Barney to sever their relationship -- permanently!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #4 published February 1992
as Eight Bar Rest [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCrime Suspenstories #18 published February 1997
as Eight Bar Rest [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Frozen Assets!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
Character(s): Jasper Wentworth (lawyer, death); Mildred Wentworth (Jasper's Aunt, death); unnamed doctor; Mort (villain, Helen's lover); Helen Wentworth (villain, Jasper's wife)
Synopsis: Lovers Mort and Helen, wanting to insure that Helen's husband (and thus her as well) would receive his aunt's $200,000+ inheritance, murder the husband and hide him away in a freezer, awaiting the aunt's death. Unfortunately, that move proves to be very costly for the both of them!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #4 published February 1992
as Frozen Assets! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #3/1993 published January 1993
as Frosset kapital! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCrime Suspenstories #18 published February 1997
as Frozen Assets! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Letterer credit verified by Al Feldstein.
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From Here to Insanity

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
Character(s): Mrs. Greene (old woman); Mr. Tucker (apartment manager); unnamed policemen; a homicidal maniac (villain)
Synopsis: A homicidal maniac, having committed several murders of young women because they could identify him, takes up residence in an old woman's apartment in order not to be discovered by the police. But he is in for a surprise in a way he could never expect!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #8/1992 published January 1992
as Uhørt vanvittig! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #4 published February 1992
as From Here to Insanity [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCrime Suspenstories #18 published February 1997
as From Here to Insanity [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Letterer credit verified by Al Feldstein.

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