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Issue: Crime SuspenStories #2
Publication Date: December 1950
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Issues: #2 of 27 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code
Publisher: FlagEC
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: L. L. Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/22/1950
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code
Content Items: 8 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is the publication date reported in U. S. Copyright Office filings. Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, July-December 1950, page 187, registration number B259141.
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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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Disclose Images2
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
First Line: Please... please don't hit me!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWeird SuspenStories #2 published January 1951
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagCrime Suspenstories #2 published February 1993
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes: in E.C. Archives: Crime SuspenStories (Gemstone, 2007 series) #1 (September 2007)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letterer credit by Craig Delich.

Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin, but it is unlikely that Severin had begun coloring at EC when this issue was colored (Cassell 2012, 33–34 and 171).
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Reference:

Cassell, Dewey, with Aaron Sultan. 2012. Marie Severin: The Mirthful Mistress of Comics. Raleigh: TwoMorrows Publishing.
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[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Look for this seal...
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Dead-Ringer

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Charles Roberts (millionaire, death); Terry Roberts (Charle's wife); Paul (Terry's lover); Charle's law partners; Robert's look-alike (villain, death); trio of crooks (villains)
First Line: No! No! Don't kill me!
Synopsis: A petty thief learns that his virtual double, a millionaire, is an amnesia victim residing at a local sanitarium, and plans to somehow get into the sanitarium, dispose of the rich man and take his place, then suddenly come out of his amnesia state, and assume the man's identity. But all is not as rosy as the man supposes......and pays for it with his life!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCrime Suspenstories #2 published February 1993
as Dead-Ringer [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #4/1994 published January 1994
as Dødslik! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes: in E.C. Archives: Crime SuspenStories (Gemstone, 2007 series) #1 (September 2007)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Cover story.

Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin (see Indexer Notes for this issue’s cover, above).
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A Moment of Madness!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Dr. Ralph Bently (brain surgeon, death); Diane Sanger (Bentley's sweetheart); a hobo (death); Cargile (a doctor)
First Line: Read this story, and learn what horrors a man can commit in...
Synopsis: A noted brain surgeon is experiencing blackouts, which cause him to unconsciously commit acts of violence during his blackouts.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCrime Suspenstories #2 published February 1993
as A Moment of Madness! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes: in E.C. Archives: Crime SuspenStories (Gemstone, 2007 series) #1 (September 2007)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin (see Indexer Notes for this issue’s cover, above).
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Perfect Murder!

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (spot illustration)
Inker(s): ? (spot illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Schumacher (villain, partner of Flenson, death); Flenson (villain, partner of Schumacher, death)
First Line: Flenson twisted the knob in his powerful fingers...
Synopsis: Flenson confronts his partner Schumacher, who had been bilking their company out of money for months, and informs the man that he was going to commit suicide. Before that happens, Schumacher dies of a heart attack.......but the dead partner unwittingly gets his revenge!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCrime Suspenstories #2 published February 1993
as Perfect Murder! [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes: in E.C. Archives: Crime SuspenStories (Gemstone, 2007 series) #1 (September 2007)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Face-to-Face

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (spot illustration)
Inker(s): ? (spot illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Monsieur Phillipe (death); Haywood; man with a scar (villain)
Synopsis: Haywood is to deliver a brief case of papers to a Monsieur Phillipe, whom he had never seen. When the transfer was to be made, Haywood discovered too late he had made a grievous error!
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: in E.C. Archives: Crime SuspenStories (Gemstone, 2007 series) #1 (September 2007)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Corpse in the Crematorium

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Al Gregory (an artist); Jane Walton (Al's fiancee)
First Line: A living man, being carried into the great coke furnace of a modern crematorium...
Synopsis: A man subject to cataleptic fits is brought to a crematorium while his wife-to-be searches frantically for him. She fails to find him before he is scheduled for cremation, but what saves him is that the attendant notices beads of sweat forming on his brow before the gaping maw of the blast furnace.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagCrime Patrol #16 published February 1950
was The Corpse in the Crematorium [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes: in E.C. Archives: Crime SuspenStories (Gemstone, 2007 series) #1 (September 2007); in Crime Patrol (EC, 1948 series) #16 (January-February, 1950)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Story foreshadows a 1955 Alfred Hitchcock Presents TV episode titled "Breakdown," wherein Joseph Cotten plays a paralyzed man lying on a morgue slab mistaken for a dead body (episode directed by Hitchcock).

Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin (see Indexer Notes for this issue’s cover, above).
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Contract for Death

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Dr. Robert Cordoz (death); Vincent Fenton (suicide prone man, death); Ann (Fenton's girlfriend)
First Line: It was after midnight!
Synopsis: A doctor, conducting experiments on the human brain, comes across a man attempting suicide, and offers him $5000 not to do so........for one month. The contract is signed and money given, and the man goes out and lives it up. But he meets a girl and then Vincent tries to renege on the deal....with dire consequences: for both the man and the doctor!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #7/1990 published January 1990
as Kontrakten [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCrime Suspenstories #2 published February 1993
as Contract For Death [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes: in E.C. Archives: Crime SuspenStories (Gemstone, 2007 series) #1 (September 2007)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Plot adapted from Damon Runyon's story, "A Very Honorable Guy," featured as part of the 1989 film "Bloodhounds of Broadway."

Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin (see Indexer Notes for this issue’s cover, above).

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