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Issue: Crime SuspenStories #27
Publication Date: February 1955
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Issues: #27 of 27 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagEC
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Indicia Publisher: L. L. Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 1954
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 8 (4 stories, 1 cover)
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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
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
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In Content Item: FlagCrime Suspenstories #27 published May 1999
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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In Memorium

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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In Content Item: FlagCrime Suspenstories #27 published May 1999
as In Memoriam [Text Article on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover. Notice of cancellation and EC's future plans.
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Maniac at Large

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
Character(s): Mrs. Pritchard (head librarian, death); unnamed library patron; Mr. Garvin; Blanche (villain, librarian)
First Line: From the very minute I came to work this morning...
Synopsis: A new librarian is deathly afraid that she will become the victim of a town maniac who has killed seven men.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #4/1992 published January 1992
as En galning er løs [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCrime Suspenstories #27 published May 1999
as Maniac at Large [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion. Previous indexer had Al Feldstein.
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Just Her Speed

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
Character(s): Marty Selzer (diner employee, death); Shirley Selzer; Fred (truck driver); unnamed Highway Patrol Trooper; Ed (villain)
First Line: Ed stood in the midnight darkness outside the diner...
Synopsis: Ed had been looking for Marty for two years, hoping to exact revenge upon him for taking his girl, Shirley, and money. But Marty tries to convince Marty that the girl and his soon-to-be wife, was no good and it was her idea to take Ed's money. But Ed discovered it was a ruse to await a local trooper that stopped in every night about that time. Unfortunately, as the trooper drove up, a speeding car went by and the cop went after it. As Ed kills Marty, the trooper is talking to the couple in the car: a guy and Shirley, Marty's wife, who was cheating on him.
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In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #6 published May 1991
as Just Her Speed [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #5/1993 published January 1993
as Dame på farten [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCrime Suspenstories #27 published May 1999
as Just Her Speed [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion. Previous indexer had Al Feldstein.
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A Collector's E.C. Check-List

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Due to frequent requests from avid collectors of E.C. type literature...
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Listing of issue numbers and dates of EC New Trend titles.
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Horror Hobby

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Look in that window.
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Pages: 1
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Where There's Smoke...

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
First Line: You said you'd fix that leaky bathroom faucet, Ed.
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In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #6 published May 1991
as Where There's Smoke... [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCrime Suspenstories #27 published May 1999
as Where There's Smoke... [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
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Good Boy

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
Character(s): Jim Ward; Paul Ward (Jim's son, death); Mr. Crane; Bobby Wilson; Mr. Gruder; Paul's unnamed high school principal' Mark Egan (villain, death)
First Line: Mr. Crane looked on with a great inward satisfaction...
Synopsis: Jim Ward was a strict father, but a loving one as well toward his son, Paul. But Jim was concerned with all the trouble his son was continually getting into, and every time the boy offered a male excuse for his behavior. As time went along, Paul because worse and worse, until he murdered a criminal named Evans, who had gotten Paul involved in illegal activities. But a father's love caused Jim Ward to do the unthinkable!
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In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #6 published May 1991
as Good Boy [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #4/1993 published January 1993
as Snill gutt [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCrime Suspenstories #27 published May 1999
as Good Boy [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Some of the story told in flashback.

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