Dates
- Cover date
- October-November 1952
- On sale
- June 25, 1952
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Hear No Evil! · Crime SuspenStories · 8 pages
Rita is introduced to Fred Reardon at a party and sets her sights on marrying this rather wealthy man, even though he is stone deaf.....for his money, of course. Soon, she falls in love with Vance Tobin and together they plot to kill Fred. However, Fred is involved in a car accident soon after and regains his hearing, unbeknownst to Vance and Rita, and he overhears the plot to poison him.
- First Impulse! · Crime SuspenStories · 4 pages
Joan and Helen are at each other's throats, as Helen believes that her sister is making eyes at Bob, her boyfriend. In addition, Helen also overhears the two planning a lunch at a cafe when they will surprise her with some news. So, Helen follows the two, and when she sees the two enter a jewelry store and pick out a ring, she feels her fears are validated. Later, Helen awaits the two coming home and she kills them both....then receives a package from a delivery boy containing a wedding ring engraved to her from Bob!
- Second Chance? · Crime SuspenStories · 3 pages
Helen is waiting for Bob and Rita to return home and she confronts them both with a gun, accusing Joan of attempting to steal her boyfriend from her. They protest, just as the delivery man from the jewelry store arrives with the package with the wedding ring in it. Helen apologizes to Bob and Joan before Bob is to leave on a train on business. Joan offers to drive him to the station. Thinking all is well, Helen sits down to relax and notices a letter on her night table from Joan, informing Helen that the pair have left together on the train and she will never see either of them again!
- Freak! · 1 pages
Kayo informs his manager Moose that he is cutting him out of his financial arrangement as of the moment, then kills him by smashing an iron pail over his head. He drags the body away from the dressing room. Later, when the Police question Kayo about the crime, Kayo said he was alone the whole time. The detective notices that both of his boxing gloves have been laced up, something one person cannot do on their own...
- A Question of Time!! · Crime SuspenStories · 6 pages
A woman is found murdered and horribly mutilated, in a tourist cabin and the suspicion is that Harry Wismer has murdered his wife. They are wrong. But after hearing from the sheriff about how his wife is a two timer, when Harry confronts her after she returns from a trip, he murders and mutilates her.
- Forty Whacks! · The Haunt of Fear · 7 pages
Fanny is 22 years old, but her parents will not let her live her life. Running up to the attic, she discovers an old hatchet, and a plan forms in her mind to murder her parents. Later, a detective investigates the double murder, but Fanny pleads that she is innocent and that it was the hatchet that killed them. Later, Edith Vance tells her husband that Fanny may be right, as that hatchet was the same one used by Lizzie Borden to kill her father and step mother. While they talk, they notice their young son has the hatchet and is coming for them.
Reprinted in
Crime Suspenstories (1983), Crime Suspenstories (1994), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (2012)