Dates
- Cover date
- August-September 1954
- On sale
- 1954
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Double-Crossed · Crime SuspenStories · 8 pages
Travelling salesman David Volney enters a town and is shocked that everyone think he's millionaire Edwin Jordon. He is physically identical to him in every way. David even meets Edwin's estranged wife who begins to become smitten with him. David decides that he will murder, butcher, and cremate Edwin, completely getting rid of him so he can live his life with his wealth and his beautiful wife. However before he killed Edwin, Edwin had killed his wife's lover and David is arrested and sentenced to death for the crime.
- Crushed Ice · Crime SuspenStories · 7 pages
In Quebec, Bart is having an affair with Lita, the wife of a rich man named Lloyd. They kill him when he comes home early from a trip. Bart buries Lloyd under some frozen ice hoping in the spring the currents will drag his corpse out to sea. Afterwards Rita inherits his fortune and marries Bart. However Bart is going insane as he's constantly haunted by dreams of Lloyd's rotted face in ice glaring at him. Lita takes him on an ocean cruise to help clear his mind, but at sea the ship gets hit by an iceberg. They notice the frozen face of Lloyd glaring at them inside the ice as they get crushed.
- Visitor · 1 pages
A thief burglarizes a house but realizes that he can't go out the front or back door due to too may people being around, so he decides to escape through the chimney. The problem is, he's carrying so much loot in his pockets he gets stuck.
- Food for Thought · Crime SuspenStories · 6 pages
A miner murders the paymaster at the payroll office at the mine he works at and steals thousands of dollars which he hides in his lunchbox. When the police begin an investigation, the miner tricks the other miners in fleeing the mine claiming he found a gasleak. This will give him a chance to hide the money deep in the mine. However the mine caves in and he's trapped. Since it takes a week for him to be dug free, he resorts to trying to eat the money to survive.
- More Blessed to Give... · Crime SuspenStories · 7 pages
The story of a long-time husband and wife who, after many years of marriage, decide they have had enough of one another and individually decide to end it by killing the other. He planted a bomb in their anniversary cake, but she saw him do it, and thus disposed of the device in the cake. She, on the other hand, poisoned a bottle of wine and gave it to him, but he discovered her action and began to pour out the contents of the bottle. Both of them were killed by back-up plans of each other. She had rigged the wine bottle to explode while he poisoned the cake.
Reprinted in
Crime Suspenstories (1983), Crime Suspenstories (1994), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (2012), B. Krigstein Comics (2004)