Dates
- Cover date
- December 1950-January 1951
- On sale
- August 22, 1950
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Dead-Ringer · 8 pages
A petty thief learns that his virtual double, a millionaire, is an amnesia victim residing at a local sanitarium, and plans to somehow get into the sanitarium, dispose of the rich man and take his place, then suddenly come out of his amnesia state, and assume the man's identity. But all is not as rosy as the man supposes......and pays for it with his life!
- A Moment of Madness! · 6 pages
A noted brain surgeon is experiencing blackouts, which cause him to unconsciously commit acts of violence during his blackouts.
- Perfect Murder! · 1 pages
Flenson confronts his partner Schumacher, who had been bilking their company out of money for months, and informs the man that he was going to commit suicide. Before that happens, Schumacher dies of a heart attack.......but the dead partner unwittingly gets his revenge!
- Face-to-Face · 1 pages
Haywood is to deliver a brief case of papers to a Monsieur Phillipe, whom he had never seen. When the transfer was to be made, Haywood discovered too late he had made a grievous error!
- The Corpse in the Crematorium · 7 pages
A man subject to cataleptic fits is brought to a crematorium while his wife-to-be searches frantically for him. She fails to find him before he is scheduled for cremation, but what saves him is that the attendant notices beads of sweat forming on his brow before the gaping maw of the blast furnace.
- Contract for Death · 7 pages
A doctor, conducting experiments on the human brain, comes across a man attempting suicide, and offers him $5000 not to do so........for one month. The contract is signed and money given, and the man goes out and lives it up. But he meets a girl and then Vincent tries to renege on the deal....with dire consequences: for both the man and the doctor!
Reprinted in
Crime Suspenstories (1983), Crime Suspenstories (1992), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (2012)