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Publisher: EC

Title: Crime SuspenStories
Issue: 8
Page Count: 36
Publish Date: December 1951-January 1952
Volume: 1
Contributors: Editor: Albert B. Feldstein

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Crime Suspenstories #8
Owner: GradedKeyComics

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Story Title: [ no title ] - cover
Features:Crime SuspenStories
Pages:1
Genre:crime
Characters:Herman Winkler; Dr. Paul Merrick


Story Title: Out of the Frying Pan... - comic story
Features:Crime SuspenStories
Pages:8
Genre:crime
Characters:Old Charlie (patient); Herb (patient); Hank's girlfriend (cameo); Hank's girlfriend's lover (death); Hank Bowers (villain)
Synopsis:Old Charlie's efforts to describe the sights outside of the hospital window are really appreciated by two paralyzed patients. But soon, a new patient, Hank Bowers, being held for murder and supposedly blind, is put into the room and he does not appreciate such talk. Until Hank gets an idea for escape.


Story Title: A Trace of Murder! - comic story
Features:Crime SuspenStories
Pages:7
Genre:crime
Characters:Muriel Fenwick (Irving's wife, death); Emma Morley (Felix's wife, death); Helen (Felix's girlfriend); unnamed Police Lieutenant (cameo); unnamed Chief of Police (cameo); unnamed doctor (cameo); two young cemetery vandals [Moose; Butch] (cameos for both); unnamed cemetery caretaker; Irving Fenwick (villain, death); Felix Morley (villain)
Synopsis:The murder-suicide of a husband and wife greatly interests Felix Morley, who wishes to do away with his nagging wife for young and fresh Helen. Felix researches and discovers that some poisons can be administered with no trace of the poison left behind and decides to use it on his wife, Emma, who dies, and all her money is left to Felix. But Felix slips and says that he killed his wife to his girl, so Helen goes to the Police. Unbeknownst to Felix, two cemetery vandals switch the headstones of Emma and Muriel, so when the Police investigate, Felix is in a fix.


Story Title: Double-Cross - text story
Pages:2
Pencils:? (masthead illustration)
Inks:? (masthead illustration)
Letters:typeset
Genre:crime
Characters:Morton (villain, death); Ben Carlisle (villain); Donna (villain, Ben's moll and wife, death)
Synopsis:Carlisle and Morton had perpetrated a $100,000 heist in Scranton, but managed to out run the law. But Morton loved Ben's moll, Donna, so planned to have her set up Ben for a killing, then she and Morton could run off together with all the dough. However, Ben knows of the plan and plans a double-cross himself, which works out well.


Story Title: The Escaped Maniac! - comic story
Features:Crime SuspenStories
Pages:6
Genre:crime
Characters:Charles Beeker (factory worker, hitchhiker, death); Bert (villain, vehicle driver)
Synopsis:Bert picks up a hitchhiker alongside the road in a blinding rainstorm and begin a journey together. But when Beeker turns on the radio instead of the car's heater, they hear a broadcast telling of an escaped maniac from the state hospital for the criminally insane and not to pick up any hitchhikers. Naturally, Bert is nervous as they locate an unoccupied home to get out of the rain. Unfortunately, Charles falls victim to the man who picked him up: the real maniac!


Story Title: Partnership Dissolved! - comic story
Features:The Haunt of Fear
Pages:7
Genre:crime; horror-suspense
Characters:The Old Witch (host); Miss Stone (Winkler's secretary); Doctor Paul Merrick (inventor, death); Herman Winkler (villain, packing house owner, death)
Synopsis:Doc Merrick displays the effectiveness of his secret chemical solution to tenderize meat: an extract of the papaya fruit, containing an enzyme called Papien which, when mixed with Merrick's secret catalytic agent, creates a solution which acts like Pepsin, a digestive enzyme found in the human body. Together they plan to undercut their competitors in the meat business by dipping cheap cuts into the solution and creating high grade steak. Although Winkler plans a double-cross to get all the profits from this partnership, an unexpected surprise awaits him.....a fatal surprise!


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