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Strange Suspense Stories #19

Charlton · Series began 1954 · July 1954

Dates

Cover date
July 1954
Pages
36

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Steve Ditko, Bill Molno, Dick Giordanoinks: Steve Ditko, Vince Alascia, Dick Giordanoletters: Charlotte Jetterscript: Carl Memling

Stories

  • Give Back My Body · 6 pages

    The body of Lefty Riccardi dies in the electric chair, but his mind has been transferred to broker John Billings. Two detectives solve this mystery.

  • All Burnt Up · 4 pages

    Gangster Blenheim hides at the house of a friend. A boy living there gives him nothing but trouble.

  • Surprise Package · 4 pages

    Gustav Perrin steals a miniature atom bomb, but loses it to a suicidal stranger who jumps off a building with it.

  • Destructive Death · 2 pages

    Violinist Jan Sagoro can collapse buildings by playing the right "vibrating point". He blackmails the city.

  • You Know Too Much! · 6 pages

    A "Mr. Average American" turns knife murderer at night and seeks the professional help of a psychiatrist.

  • A Nice Quiet Place! · 6 pages

    Tony and Chopper enter their quiet hideout in the mountains, but get attacked by a mountain lion.

  • High Tension · 2 pages

    The surviving acrobat falls as well and lands on the unfaithful wife.

Reprinted in

Pre-Code Classics: Strange Suspense Stories (2016), Charlton Spotlight (2000), The Steve Ditko Archives (2009), The Steve Ditko Archives (2014), Gwandanaland Comics (2016), Murder (2017)

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