Suspense
#17
(April 1952)
Marvel,
1949 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Broadcast Features Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Atlas [black & white]
- Editing
- Stan Lee (editor)
Issue Notes
Art credits from atlastales.com.
The Little Black Box
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Joe Maneely (signed as
Joe Maneely) - Inks
- Joe Maneely (signed as Joe Maneely)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- A-105
- Synopsis
- People kill for the secret of the little black box. But the only thing inside of it is...another little black box.
Night of Horror
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- 9965
- Synopsis
- When a pledge dies during a college initiation, the frat boy responsible for it does not mend his ways but continues to think up more sadistic rituals. His next one involves being tied to a tombstone in the cemetery and attempting to frighten the pledges, but he doesn't notice that the tombstone he ties himself to belongs to the boy he killed and the grave opens beneath him to swallow him up.
Indexer Notes
Unknown inks per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Werner Roth.
Norman Was Right!
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- 9971
- Synopsis
- When a ladykiller spots a beautiful woman wearing a leopard disguise at a dance he bets his friends that he can get her to dance with him even though she has declined invitations from others. She agrees to dance with him and he gloats over his friends. She takes him outside and gets him alone where she reveals that she is not wearing a mask and is, in fact, a hungry were-leopard.
Joe's Friend!
comic story / 3 pages
- Job Number
- 10011
- Synopsis
- A crazy man murders his wife and blames it on his 'friend' who lives in...the mirror.
The Dungeon
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- 9989
- Synopsis
- When a convict plots a jail break he gets help from the ghost of a murdered warden who leads him to an even worse prison.
The Murder Club
comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- 9903
- Synopsis
- A man encounters a group of ghosts that have all been executed for their murders who encourage him to murder his aunt for her money. When he does the deed, he returns to them in order to be initiated as a full member into the murder club, but in order to become a full member they must execute him.
The Thing in the Shadows
comic story / 4 pages
- Job Number
- 9995
- Synopsis
- When a killer hides in the hearse that the body of his victim has been placed in, the dead man's hands strangle him and they are both buried in the same coffin.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Night of Terror!
-
1.
The Little Black Box
-
2.
Night of Horror
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3.
Norman Was Right!
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4.
Joe's Friend!
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5.
The Dungeon
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6.
The Murder Club
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7.
The Thing in the Shadows
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8.
The Dead Witch!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Boris Ammerlaan
- Bill Borre
- Nick Caputo
- Peter Croome
- Ethan Hoddes
- Jim Van Dore
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