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Issue: Crime SuspenStories #19
Publication Date: October 1953
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Issues: #19 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: 06/23/1953
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 B421676.
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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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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCrime Suspenstories #19 published May 1997
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Killer

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
Character(s): Jonathan (a hangman); Elsie (Jonathan's wife); Jonathan's father (in flashback)
First Line: Jonathan sat on the crude wooden bench...
Synopsis: Jonathan worked hard at his work, never wanting to follow in the footsteps of his father. Then he met Elsie, whom he intended to marry after he had established himself. However, because Jonathan's father was not a member of a guild, Jonathan was denied his opportunity to make a living, and reluctantly accepted doing his father's line of work. On the side, Jonathan practiced his own trade, which kept him away from home for days at a time. One day, he returned home to find that his wife had been fooling around with another man and had killed him. Now, Jonathan must ply his own trade: on Elsie!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #4/1992 published January 1992
as Et ærlig håndverk [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCrime Suspenstories #19 published May 1997
as The Killer [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Script revision from Crandall to Kurtzman per The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #[15] - The High Cost of Dying and Other Stories.
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Wined-Up!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
Character(s): Charles Ashland; the Petersons (neighbors of the Ashlands); Laura Ashland (villain, Charle's wife)
First Line: Your name is Charles Ashland.
Synopsis: Charles, in a wheelchair since an auto accident, learns that the accident was no accident at all, and that his wife Laura wanted to kill him because she was sick and tired of living with him. She now informs him that is going to try again by wheeling him out on a pier, attaching a wire to it so that she can pull the chair into the lake as she goes swimming. But she is in for a great surprise!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #6/1994 published January 1994
as En tynn tråd [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCrime Suspenstories #19 published May 1997
as Wined-Up! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Some of the story is told in flashback.
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Rendezvous!

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCrime Suspenstories #19 published May 1997
as Rendezvous! [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Murder May Boomerang

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
First Line: From the very first issue of Crime SuspenStories...
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagCrime SuspenStories #1 published October 1950
was Murder May Boomerang [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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About Phase

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): A Horror SuspenStory
Character(s): Myrtle Fenwick (Wilbur's wife); unnamed newspaper boy (cameo); Wilber Fenwick villain, newspaperman)
First Line: It was on the night of November 8th, 1952...
Synopsis: Wilbur always enjoyed recounting the gory murder details found in his column in The London News to his wife, who promptly told him to shut up in a very loud voice. But he touted to her that all the murders occurred under a full moon and that a werewolf had to be responsible. He planned to kill his wife, as he had done to three other women, then claim he was lycanthropic, a victim of the full moon. Unfortunately for him, January 29, 1953, had a full eclipse of the moon at the time of the murder, so poor Wilbur was sentenced to death for pre-meditated murder.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #6/1994 published January 1994
as Månegal! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCrime Suspenstories #19 published May 1997
as About Phase [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Script revision from solely Feldstein to Gaines and Feldstein by Craig Delich.

Parts of the story occur on September 8, 1952, December 5, 1952, January 2, 1953, and January 29, 1953

Part of the story is told in flashback.

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