Who Is Next?
#5
(January 1953)
Pines,
1953 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- Quarterly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Standard Magazines Inc.
- Brand
-
Standard Comics
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
Publication listed as quarterly (however, only one issue was printed)
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- crime
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Cover art for the anchor story "Death on a Dark Street".
Cover text reads: Mad Killers Menace Our Safety - Who is Next?, followed by "Don't Let Me Kill!"
Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. (pencils) and Keith Chandler (inks).
The Crushed Gardenia
comic story / 8 pages
- Job Number
- B-1579 or B-1379
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Johnny Faber was more dangerous...
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Johnny Faber; Ellie Taylor (death); Doctor Paul Crane; Officer Brune; Jack Gale
- Synopsis
- The story of Johnny Faber: a young man who "had no control of his rages". Turned down by his girl Ellie, Johnny kills her in a jealous fit.
- Reprints
-
in Seduction of the Innocent! (Eclipse, 1985 series) #3 (December 1985) - in Buried Treasure (Pure Imagination, 1986 series) #1 (Spring 1986)
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in James Bond (Semic, 1979 series) #2/1988 (uke 9 1988) - in The Alex Toth Reader (Pure Imagination, 1995 series) #[nn] (1995)
- in Alex Toth: Edge of Genius (Pure Imagination, 2007 series) #1 (2007)
- in The Mammoth Book of Best Crime Comics (Running Press Book Publishers, 2008 series) (2008)
- in Genius, Isolated: The Life and Art of Alex Toth (IDW, 2011 series) (April 2011)
- in Setting the Standard: Comics by Alex Toth 1952-1954 (Fantagraphics, 2011 series) (August 2011)
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in Krimi Klassiker (ilovecomics, 2020 series) #14 - Wer ist der Nächste? (2024)
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Signal 32
comic story / 0.5 page
- Job Number
- B-1311
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Police in a prowl car...
- Genre
- non-fiction; crime
- Synopsis
- Signal 32 on police radio means: "All cars proceed with caution".
Don't Let Me Kill
comic story / 7 pages
- Job Number
- B-1369
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- He creeps rhrough the night...
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Alex Vorple; Linda Krause (death); Eleanor Steiger (death)
- Synopsis
- The story of Alex Vorple: The ugly teen-age boy is driven to murder. Hearing voices, Alex feels compelled to drown his inferiority complex by killing girls.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. (pencils) and Keith Chandler (inks).
Crazy Carl
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- Jim Hendryx Jr. (credited as J. Hendryx)
- Pencils
- ? (2 spot illustrations)
- Inks
- ? (2 spot illustrations)
- Colors
- ? (2 spot illustrations)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- He was a dried-up little man...
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Crazy Carl (death); Ned Barlick
- Synopsis
- Two unscrupulous businessmen murder "Crazy Carl", a hermit who won't sell them his house on the hill. Police catch the killers because Carl had whittled their faces into pieces of wood as he was dying.
The Destroyer
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- B-1417
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- In the warped brain of a mad killer...
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Walter Graves [The Destroyer]; Mrs. Lacey; Joe Graves; Marilyn Hayes (death)
- Synopsis
- The story of Walter Graves: a war-traumatized veteran who breaks down and goes on a killing spree, taking four innocent lives.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
Murder by Moonlight
comic story / 1 page
- Job Number
- B-1415
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Police in a large city...
- Genre
- crime
- Synopsis
- A serial robber and killer who strikes only during moonlit nights is finally caught.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
Death on a Dark Street
comic story / 6 pages
- Job Number
- B-1398
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Herbert Cole was a paranoiac.
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Herbert Cole; Margie; Jerry; Grace (death); Miss Allison; Detective Sandy Keller
- Synopsis
- The story of Herbert Cole: a paranoiac who turns killer when his fiancée leaves him for another man. After a second murder attempt he is trapped by the police - and jumps to his own death.
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
Job number verified from notations in margins on the original art boards.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
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1.
The Crushed Gardenia
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2.
Signal 32
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3.
Don't Let Me Kill
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4.
Crazy Carl
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5.
The Destroyer
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6.
Murder by Moonlight
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7.
Death on a Dark Street
This issue was modified by, among others
- Weldon Adams
- Alan Brown
- Keith Chandler
- Tillmann Courth
- Michael Hoskin
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