Dates
- Cover date
- December 1954-January 1955
- On sale
- 1954
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Fixer · Crime SuspenStories · 8 pages
A poor couple and their young son move into a neighborhood and the locals aren't happy about it. The family is constantly harassed. Suddenly neighbours mysteriously begin to get murdered. The mother thinks her husband has been committing the crimes for revenge but he denies it. During an argument, he accidently kills her. Horrified he then kills himself. When the detectives talk to the young son, they find out he had been committing the murders so he can fix things for his unhappy parents.
- Dead Center · Crime SuspenStories · 6 pages
A man suspects his wife is cheating on him as her friend takes her to the wrestling matches every week. He buys them front row seats and then watches the match on television to see if they are there and not out having a fling. When he sees the two seats empty, he realizes she has been cheating on him and kills both her and her friend when they come home. He then finds out the match he was watching on television was from out of town and not local.
- A Special Editorial · 1 pages
This was an editorial request to readers to write letters to the Senate Sub-Committee on Juvenile Delinquency in support of comic magazines as being "harmless" entertainment. It was at this time that comics were under fire by "do-gooders" wanting to rid the nation of this type of entertainment
- Green Stuff · 1 pages
A couple of crooks steal lots of green plants hoping to sell it but realize they got stuck with poison ivy.
- The Firebug · Crime SuspenStories · 5 pages
An arson investigator and a fire chief are trying to track down an arsonist who has been setting fires across town. It turns out the pyromaniac is the fire chief.
- Comeback · Crime SuspenStories · 7 pages
An older man murders his wife after she finds out he has fallen in love with a younger woman named Joyce. He steals some money from the company and heads to South America to lay low telling Joyce he will be back for her when this blows over. After years pass, he returns to America and finds out that Joyce had been convicted and executed for the murder of his wife. Why? Because Joyce's fingerprints were on the letter opener she gave him as a gift. The same letter opener he used to kill his wife!
Reprinted in
Crime Suspenstories (1983), Crime Suspenstories (1994), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (2012)