Dates
- Cover date
- January-February 1954
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- I Went To My Own Funeral · 6 pages
Basil and Gertrude Jethro are a married couple of brillant surgeons. When Basil takes out an insurance on Gertrude's life, she decides to murder her insane husband first. They change identities via plastic surgery and Gertrude can pose as Basil and cash in on the insurance money.
- Three Way Vendetta · 7 pages
Three bankrobbers set up booby traps for each other to maximize their share of the loot. All of them are killed in the progress.
- Bury Me Deep · 2 pages
The murder victim Frank Lee visits the town in the guise of his nox-existing twin brother Walter. With the aid of black magic he avenges his death and finishes off his three killers.
- Payment On Time! · 6 pages
Two killers stow away on a freight ship to Africa. When one of them needs his appendix to be removed, they force the ship's doctor to do so. The doctor is killed afterwards, but he left a surprise in the gangster's stomach.
- High Tension · 4 pages
Jealousy and treachery tear apart a circus trapaze act.
- Murder On Time! · 4 pages
Henpecked husband Charlie Noonan constructs an explosive alarm clock to murder his wife. When the bomb goes off, he himself is felled by a deadly heart attack.
- Big Money Man! · 2 pages
Bankrobber is caught in the subway, because has hasn't the dime admittance handy.
Reprinted in
Pre-Code Classics: Strange Suspense Stories (2016)