Crime SuspenStories #3

Dates

Cover date

February-March 1951

On sale

October 24, 1950

Pages

36

Editions and covers

• Original edition

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Creators

Stories

• Poison! · Crime SuspenStories · 8 pages

  Mr. Boles was pretty smug, as he and his housekeeper attended the funeral of Margaret Boles.....smug thinking that no one knew he had killed his wife. But everything that his housekeeper says and does seems to indicate to him that she somehow knows what he did, and so he makes plans to somehow convince a doctor that the housekeeper tried to poison him.

• The Giggling Killer · Crime SuspenStories · 7 pages

  With the newspapers reporting the deaths of people at the hands of "The Giggling Killer," poor Lester, nagged to death by his wife, plans to see if he in some way can establish an alibi and then kill his wife in the style of the killer. This he successfully does........and then he runs into a hitchhiker.......

• Getaway · 2 pages

  Having successfully robbed a bank and killing the guard, the robber decides to take a chance and leisurely make his getaway, hoping that the police would not notice him. As his car climbs high into the mountains, he spots a road block and desperately looks for a way to escape, not realizing the police were stopping cars from going further on due to a landslide.

• Loot! · 1 pages

  A robber decides to break into the fancy home of a noted professor, kill him so there would be no witness to the crime, then take the loot and scram. Too bad he fails to read the suicide note the professor had written to the police, notifying them that he had taken his life due to the fact that he had contracted the pneumonic plague!

• Faced with Horror! · Crime SuspenStories · 6 pages

  Sam and Willie hold up a bank and shoot a teller in the process. Unfortunately for them, an employee photographed them while making their escape, and Brogen was identified. He decides to have plastic surgery to make himself look like a different person, but what he gets is far from what he desired.

• Blood Red Wine! · The Haunt of Fear · 7 pages

  Old Ballo, whose wine business had been ruined by a review made by a wine connoisseur, decides to invite the man to his home and do away with him.

Reprinted in

Crime Suspenstories (1983), Crime Suspenstories (1992), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (2012)