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Issue: Crime SuspenStories #3
Publication Date: February 1951
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Issues: #3 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: 10/24/1950
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: 7 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is the publication date reported in the U. S. Copyright Office filings. Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, July-December 1950, page 187, registration number B269440.
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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): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
First Line: No...no...please don't brick me in!
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In Content Item: FlagWeird SuspenStories #3 published March 1951
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagCrime Suspenstories #3 published May 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: 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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Poison!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
Character(s): Margaret Boles (death); Elsa (Boles' housekeeper); unnamed doctor; Mr. Boles (villain, Margaret's husband)
First Line: The mourners in the cemetery were silent...
Synopsis: Mr. Boles was pretty smug, as he and his housekeeper attended the funeral of Margaret Boles.....smug thinking that no one knew he had killed his wife. But everything that his housekeeper says and does seems to indicate to him that she somehow knows what he did, and so he makes plans to somehow convince a doctor that the housekeeper tried to poison him.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #7/1990 published January 1990
as Gift! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCrime Suspenstories #3 published May 1993
as Poison! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes: in E.C. Archives: Crime SuspenStories (Gemstone, 2007 series) #1 (September 2007)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin (see Indexer Notes for this issue’s cover, above).

Loosely based on "Interruption" by W. W. Jacobs.
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The Giggling Killer

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
Character(s): John Hewlett (death); Mrs. Hewlett (death); Tom (hotel clerk); Mrs. Loman (Lester's wife, death); Lester Loman (villain, death); The Giggling Killer (villain, hitch hiker)
First Line: Midnight! A city sleeps!
Synopsis: With the newspapers reporting the deaths of people at the hands of "The Giggling Killer," poor Lester, nagged to death by his wife, plans to see if he in some way can establish an alibi and then kill his wife in the style of the killer. This he successfully does........and then he runs into a hitch hiker.......
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In Content Item: FlagGeluiden uit een andere wereld #[nn] published October 1989
as De giechelwurger [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCrime Suspenstories #3 published May 1993
as The Giggling Killer [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes: in E.C. Archives: Crime SuspenStories (Gemstone, 2007 series) #1 (September 2007)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Vaguely influenced by Chicago's "Stop me before I kill more" lipstick killings attributed to William Heirens. Charles Einstein wrote a novel called "The Bloody Spur" about Heirens, and the novel was later adapted into the film "While the City Sleeps" by Fritz Lang.

Letterer credit by Craig Delich.

Marie Severin’s statement that “[Harvey] Kurtzman colored his own art, especially on covers...” (1995) suggests that Kurtzman colored stories that he drew, albeit perhaps less consistently than he colored his cover art.
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References:

Cassell, Dewey, with Aaron Sultan. 2012. “The Artists of EC Comics” (reprinting Severin 1995). In Marie Severin: The Mirthful Mistress of Comics. 46–47. Raleigh: TwoMorrows Publishing.

Severin, Marie (John Province, transcriber [uncredited]). 1995. “Mostly About Color.” In CFA-APA 36, January.
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Getaway

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): unnamed Policemen (one bank guard dies); bank robber (villain, death)
Synopsis: Having successfully robbed a bank and killing the guard, the robber decides to take a chance and leisurely make his getaway, hoping that the police would not notice him. As his car climbs high into the mountains, he spots a road block and desperately looks for a way to escape, not realizing the police were stopping cars from going further on due to a landslide.
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Reprint Notes: in E.C. Archives: Crime SuspenStories (Gemstone, 2007 series) #1 (September 2007)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Loot!

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): Professor Kraal (death); robber (villain)
Synopsis: A robber decides to break into the fancy home of a noted professor, kill him so there would be no witness to the crime, then take the loot and scram. Too bad he fails to read the suicide note the professor had written to the police, notifying them that he had taken his life due to the fact that he had contracted the pneumonic plague!
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Reprint Notes: in E.C. Archives: Crime SuspenStories (Gemstone, 2007 series) #1 (September 2007)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Faced with Horror!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, horror
Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
Character(s): Sam (bank teller, death); unnamed doctor (death); Willie Cooper (villain, robber, death); Sam Brogen (villain, gunman)
First Line: We had planned the robbery carefully!
Synopsis: Sam and Willie hold up a bank and shoot a teller in the process. Unfortunately for them, an employee photographed them while making their escape, and Brogen was identified. He decides to have plastic surgery to make himself look like a different person, but what he gets is far from what he desired.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #7/1990 published January 1990
as Se det i øynene! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCrime Suspenstories #3 published May 1993
as Faced With Horror! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #2 published August 2012
as Faced with Horror! [Story on Interior Page(s)]black-and-white reprint
Reprint Notes: in E.C. Archives: Crime SuspenStories (Gemstone, 2007 series) #1 (September 2007)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Script revision and letterer credit by Craig Delich.

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

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, horror
Feature(s): The Haunt of Fear
Character(s): The Old Witch (host); Ramon (wine connoisseur, death); Pietro Ballo (villain, vintner, death)
First Line: Welcome, dear reader!
Synopsis: Old Ballo, whose wine business had been ruined by a review made by a wine connoisseur, decides to invite the man to his home and do away with him.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCrime Suspenstories #3 published May 1993
as Blood Red Wine! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes: in E.C. Archives: Crime SuspenStories (Gemstone, 2007 series) #1 (September 2007)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Adapted from the short story "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe which was first published in the November 1846 issue of Godey's Lady's Book.

Cover story.

Script revision and letterer credit by Craig Delich.

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

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