Dates
- Cover date
- April-May 1953
- On sale
- December 12, 1952
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Rendezvous! · Crime SuspenStories · 8 pages
Joe and his office companions are taking bets that Charlie will have an airplane accident.....just as a lark. Then, when Joe's boss suspects that the company's books are being juggled, Joe devises a plan to make sure his boss will have a plane accident himself. He does, by having a time bomb smuggled aboard the plane. When Joe goes out to the desert to witness the plane crash, it ends up crashing on him!
- Fission Bait! · Crime SuspenStories · 7 pages
When World War II ends, Eddie was upset because government contracts for his machine shop would end. However the Army awards his firm another government contract for the special fuse casings he had produced during the war for atomic bombs. On a trip to Los Angeles, Eddie meets a new girl, one that his wife Louise finds out about, and Eddie must find a way to eliminate his wife. He kills her and buries her body out in the desert. The problem is a prospector, using a Geiger-counter looking for Uranium, finds her corpse because of her radium watch.
- Scorpion · 2 pages
John Whitman, had been Mayor of Tranquility some twenty-eight years, as well as the local smithy, spending much of his time welding brake rods and chains, and the like. One day, a stranger rode into town: dressed in black riding a white horse, and he came to Whitman to repair his gun. Upon viewing the intricate silver scorpions engraved on the pistol's handle, he knew that this man was the dreaded desperado, The Scorpion. He fixed the gun, handed it back, and the man left, later to attempt to rob a Wells-Fargo stage...but the gun would not fire with a filed down hammer!
- Come Clean! · Crime SuspenStories · 6 pages
Ralph Jansen has been found guilty of strangling his girl friend and is strapped in the electric chair facing a horrible death, all for a crime he didn't commit but in which circumstantial evidence (the killer having a similar jacket to his) led to his conviction. By the time he thought of the clue that proved his innocence (the suit he was identified as wearing having been at the cleaners at the time of the murder), thousands of volts coursed through his body.
- Who's Next? · The Haunt of Fear · 7 pages
Tony sensed that something was wrong in the home, as his wife Anna was very cold toward him and not affectionate any longer. The flowers he bought her and the offer to go to a movie didn't interest her one bit. One day he left his barber shop and went home early, only to discover his wife in the arms of the local bank president. Crushed, he headed back to his barber shop and awaited Mr. Barker, who wanted a haircut. Tony pulled out his straight razor and went to work on the man...........
Reprinted in
Crime Suspenstories (1983), Tales from the Crypt (1990), Crime Suspenstories (1994), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (2012)