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Issue: Crime SuspenStories #6
Publication Date: August 1951
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Issues: #6 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: 04/25/1951
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 (5 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, January-June 1951, page 37, registration number B298210.
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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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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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Original Artwork
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Jury Duty

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
Character(s): Johnson (jury foreman); Peter Kardoff
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #6 [unnamed variant] published May 1992
as Crime SuspenStories #6 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCrime Suspenstories #6 published February 1994
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: Story title taken from story title inside.

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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A Toast... to Death!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
Character(s): Alphonse (death); unnamed Police Inspector; Jack Thompson (garden cultivator, death); Sherry (villain, Alfonses' wife)
First Line: I don't know why I ever married the old pig in the first place!
Synopsis: A wife is fed up with her lazy, good-for-nothing husband who prefers to spend his time babying a special grape vine than spending time with her. So she poisons his favorite wine, buries him and then concocts an elaborate cover-up, living the life of Riley on her late husband's money.......until that blasted grapevine enters the picture again, costing her her lover and leading to death row for her!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #6 [unnamed variant] published May 1992
as A Toast... to Death! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCrime Suspenstories #6 published February 1994
as A Toast... To Death! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes: in E.C. Archives: Crime SuspenStories (Gemstone, 2007 series) #1 (September 2007)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Craig uses the death-cell narration from "The Postman Always Rings Twice" as well as the killer being punished for the ironic accidental death. The story also foreshadows Alfred Hitchcock's directed "Back For Christmas" (from a John Collier story), that appeared later on TV's "Alfred Hitchcock Presents."

Some of the tale is told in flashback.

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

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, horror
Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
Character(s): Bert Andrews (death); Harvey Andrews (Bert's brother, head of the state hospital for the criminally insane); Betty Andrews (villain, Bert's wife)
First Line: My name is Betty Andrews!
Synopsis: Betty hates her husband with a passion and decides to murder him by feigning fainting attacks over a period of months, then acting out in a murderous way when Bert's brother is present. Succeeding in the foul deed, Betty is committed to Harvey's hospital.........with unexpected results.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #4/1992 published January 1992
as Galskap [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #6 [unnamed variant] published May 1992
as Out of My Mind! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCrime Suspenstories #6 published February 1994
as Out of My Mind! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes: in E.C. Archives: Crime SuspenStories (Gemstone, 2007 series) #1 (September 2007)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Script revisions by Craig Delich.

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

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Mr. Clauson (bank cashier, mention only); Grady (villain, bank robber, death)
First Line: The plan was air-tight, Grady knew.
Synopsis: Grady had a fool-proof scheme to rob the Land National Bank of $250,000, and figured that he had considered all the angles. But there was one thing he failed to take into account......a fatal flaw in his plan.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #6 [unnamed variant] published May 1992
as Air-Tight! [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes: in E.C. Archives: Crime SuspenStories (Gemstone, 2007 series) #1 (September 2007)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Masthead is typeset with multi-colored background.
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): SuspenStory Scribblins!
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: in E.C. Archives: Crime SuspenStories (Gemstone, 2007 series) #1 (September 2007)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Sequence added by Craig Delich.

The editors of this page were no doubt Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein.

Letters are printed from Dick Frey, Archie Patrissey, Florence Robins and Arnold Kerr.
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The Switch

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
Character(s): Harry Crosby (Lambert's neighbor); Mrs. Crosby (Harry's wife); Edwin Lambert (villain, death); Elsa Lambert (villain, Edwin's wife, death); hired killer (villain)
First Line: Edwin Lambert slammed the door of his garden apartment and sighed!
Synopsis: The Lamberts are fighting again, but one night Edwin over-hears Harry conversing with a person that Edwin believes is a killer being hired to kill Harry's wife. But is Edwin ever wrong.....dead wrong!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #8/1992 published January 1992
as Et lett bytte [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #6 [unnamed variant] published May 1992
as The Switch [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCrime Suspenstories #6 published February 1994
as The Switch [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes: in E.C. Archives: Crime SuspenStories (Gemstone, 2007 series) #1 (September 2007)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Script revisions by Craig Delich.

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

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); Johnson (jury foreman, death); Court Judge Lemuel Sampson; unnamed prison warden (cameo); un-named doctor (cameo); Felix Barnes (Kardoff's defense attorney); unnamed undertaker; Boris (Kardoff's servant); Peter Kardoff (villain, death)
First Line: Hee, hee! Well, bubble my cauldron!
Synopsis: Somehow Peter Kardoff survives the hangman's noose, then starts to take revenge by killing off the members of the jury that convicted him, convinced the law cannot do anything since he was legally pronounced dead. Or at least that is what he thinks.......
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #6 [unnamed variant] published May 1992
as Jury Duty! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCrime Suspenstories #6 published February 1994
as Jury Duty! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes: in E.C. Archives: Crime SuspenStories (Gemstone, 2007 series) #1 (September 2007)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Script revisions by Craig Delich.

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

Cover story.

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