Crime SuspenStories #10

(April-May 1952)

Al Feldstein (Table of Contents: 1)

The EC "Artist of the Issue" / text article / 1 page (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein (signed as Wm. M. Gaines)

Pencils

? (photograph)

Inks

? (photograph)

Letters

typeset

Genre

biography

Characters

Al Feldstein

Reprints

• in Crime Suspenstories (Russ Cochran, 1983 series) #2 (1983)

Indexer Notes

Found on the inside front cover.

Interesting to note that Gaines claimed to have written this biog.

...Rocks in His Head! (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Johnny Craig (signed)

Pencils

Johnny Craig (signed)

Inks

Johnny Craig (signed)

Colors

Marie Severin

Letters

Jim Wroten

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The midtown apartment of Doctor Charles Andrews...

Genre

crime

Characters

Cynthia Andrews (Charle's wife); unnamed police officers; Dr. Charles Andrews (villain)

Synopsis

Cynthia shows Charles her new $4000 mink coat and he goes ballistic, not knowing how he can afford such a luxury on his income. He rushes to the hospital and discovers an emergency operation that he is to do, and before he starts to operate, he spots that his lady patient is wearing a valuable diamond ring; he takes it. Later, the woman notes the ring missing and a search of the hospital begins. To cover his tracks, Charles places the ring in the skull of a dying patient, hoping later to retrieve the ring from the man's grave. Is he in for a surprise!

Reprints

• in Crime Suspenstories (Russ Cochran, 1983 series) #2 (1983)
• in Iskalde Grøss (Semic, 1982 series) #3/1991 (uke 16 1991)
• in Crime Suspenstories (Gemstone, 1994 series) #10 (February 1995)
• in The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) #5 - Fall Guy for Murder and Other Stories (July 2013) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Keywords

City Hospital

Indexer Notes

Letterer credit by Craig Delich.

Cover story.

Lady Killer (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)

Pencils

Jack Kamen (signed)

Inks

Jack Kamen (signed)

Colors

Marie Severin

Letters

Jim Wroten

First Line of Dialogue or Text

No one was in the lobby!

Genre

crime

Characters

Mildred (Ralph's wife, death); Ralph (villain); Jeanne (villain, Ralph's lover, old school friend of Mildred's, death)

Synopsis

Ralph and Jeanne conspire to kill Ralph's wife who refuses to give him a divorce. After making sure he has an air-tight alibi, Ralph sneaks back to his home to shoot his wife, but she is not there. He sits down to wait on her, remembering back to when he first met Jeanne. When Mildred finally comes back, he kills her then races back to Jeanne's apartment. He enters and discovers Jeanne shot and dying; Mildred had killed her to get even with Ralph and what he was doing! Later, on death row, he sits, waiting to die....but charged with killing Jeanne!

Reprints

• in Crime Suspenstories (Russ Cochran, 1983 series) #2 (1983)
• in Crime Suspenstories (Gemstone, 1994 series) #10 (February 1995)
• in The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) #14 - Forty Whacks and Other Stories (November 2015) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Indexer Notes

Letters credit from Craig Delich.

Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.

Deep-Freeze! (Table of Contents: 4)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein

Pencils

? (masthead illustration)

Inks

? (masthead illustration)

Colors

Marie Severin ?

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The temperature, Heston mused as he slapped his arms...

Genre

crime

Characters

Logan (prospector, Heston's partner); Heston (villain, prospector, death)

Synopsis

With the temperature outside reaching -50, Heston decided to knock his partner unconscious, steal his gold nuggets, and make his way across the tundra. Carrying out the deed, he grabs Logan's knapsacks and heads out, soon falling into an icy-cold lake. Realizing he might freeze to death, he reaches into the knapsacks for matches he knows are there. But they aren't, and then he realizes that, before he knocled out Logan, Logan has taken the matches out of the knapsack, placing them in his....for he was planning to do to Heston what Heston did to him!

Reprints

• in Crime Suspenstories (Russ Cochran, 1983 series) #2 (1983)

Keywords

Yukon

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

SuspenStory Scribblings / letters page / 0.6 page (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Editorial; letters from Jacqueline Howard, Seth Greenberg.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6)

statement of ownership / 0.4 page (report information)

Script

Frank Lee

Letters

typeset

Missed by Two Heirs! (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)

Pencils

Jack Davis (signed)

Inks

Jack Davis (signed)

Colors

Marie Severin

Letters

Jim Wroten

First Line of Dialogue or Text

His aging body crippled with arthritis...

Genre

crime

Characters

Henry Bordin (death); Julius (villain, Henry's stepson, death); Martin (villain, Henry's stepson, death)

Synopsis

Two stepsons, angry because their late mother willed her fortune to her husband, Henry, instead of to them, decide to kill Henry by loosening the bannister on the spiral staircase leading upstairs, a bannister that Henry leans on every time he descends the stairs. When that plan fails, they decide to poison his orange juice. Henry suspects the truth and leaves the house with a sample of the juice for the police to test. The two boys each drink the poisoned juice themselves to prevent their arrest for murder. After they down the liquid, the police appear at the door with a surprise for them!

Reprints

• in Crime Suspenstories (Russ Cochran, 1983 series) #2 (1983)
• in Crime Suspenstories (Gemstone, 1994 series) #10 (February 1995)
• in The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) #16 - The Living Mummy and Other Stories (August 2016) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Indexer Notes

Letters credit from Craig Delich.

Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.

Friend to 'Our Boys'! (Table of Contents: 8)

The Haunt of Fear / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)

Pencils

Graham Ingels (signed as Ghastly)

Inks

Graham Ingels (signed as Ghastly)

Colors

Marie Severin

Letters

Jim Wroten

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Hee, hee! Yep, kiddies!

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

The Old Witch (host); Corporal Barry Tacker; Barry's wife; Barry's son; Edgar Chambers (villain, landlord, death)

Synopsis

Corporal Tacker arrives home on leave and finds the rented, ramshackle family home teeming with rats and biting insects. When the landlord refuses to correct the conditions of the house, Barry visits the USO, but they can't help either. So, Barry moves his family to a hotel and goes to the landlord for his security deposit back, but the landlord tells him that he must check the place for damages first. When the landlord enters the house, looking for phony repairs to eat up the security deposit, the stairs collapse and he tumbles to the floors, surrounded by rats, and no one to hear him scream!

Reprints

• in Crime Suspenstories (Russ Cochran, 1983 series) #2 (1983)
• in Crime Suspenstories (Gemstone, 1994 series) #10 (February 1995)
• in The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) #13 - Grave Business and Other Stories (June 2015) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Keywords

USO

Indexer Notes

Letters credit from Craig Delich.

Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.