Strange Suspense Stories #21

(September 1954)

Who Will He Be? (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Bill Molno

Inks

Ray Osrin ?

Colors

?

Letters

Charlotte Jetter

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

An Arabian tyrant uses sleep-deprivation to torture his opponents and find out about assassination plots about him. Some day something out of the ordinary happens.

The Well of Fear! (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Bill Molno [as Joe Shuster] (signed)

Inks

Ray Osrin (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

Charlotte Jetter

Genre

crime; horror-suspense

Synopsis

Bankrobbers Logan and Sellis get trapped in an old well and can't get out. They mistrust each other and won't help the other to escape. They both perish miserably.

Indexer Notes

Cover story. Molno pencils per Martin O'Hearn's blog: http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/2014/10/joe-shusters-charlton-ghost.html

Surprise Package (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Memling

Pencils

Dick Giordano (Signed)

Inks

Dick Giordano (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

Charlotte Jetter

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

Gustav Perrin steals a miniature atom bomb, but loses it to a suicidal stranger who jumps off a building with it. The jumper, however, has a parachute and does an advertisement stunt.

Indexer Notes

Reader's solution to write-in-contest for a new ending from "Strange Suspense Stories" #19 (July 1954).

Memling script per Martin O'Hearn's blog: http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/2016/04/carl-memling-suspense-stories.html

Sam the Seer (Table of Contents: 4)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

crime; horror-suspense

Synopsis

Sam Snittleman can foresee the future. He knows that a crime mobster will kill him. When he does, Snittleman returns from the dead as "Mr. Vision" and leads the police to his murderers.

This Bite is Sweet! (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Bill Molno

Inks

Ray Osrin ?

Colors

?

Letters

Charlotte Jetter

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

Peter North is a vampire. He settles down in a village in the Pyrenees and terrorizes the good people. When he meets the lovely Monique, North is torn between love and blood lust.

Indexer Notes

first-person narrative

The Mark of the Ripper! (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Sy Moskowitz (signed)

Inks

Sy Moskowitz (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

Charlotte Jetter

Genre

crime; horror-suspense

Synopsis

Police detective Baird has to bring down the "Ripper", a knife-wielding maniac on the loose. Following the clues Baird is confronted with the fact that he himself is the "Ripper".

Reprints

• in Steve Ditko: Edge of Genius (Pure Imagination, 2008 ? series) (2008)

Indexer Notes

First page of the story has a "Steve Ditko-ish" appearance to the art.

No Questions Asked (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Dick Giordano ?

Inks

Dick Giordano ?

Colors

?

Letters

Charlotte Jetter

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

Dr. Hurtt needs fresh cadavers for his anatomy sessions. When he gets blackmailed he decides to commit a murder and thus kill two birds with one stone.

Indexer Notes

Write-in contest for readers to contribute an ending to this story.