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Issue: Crime SuspenStories #17
Publication Date: June 1953
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Issues: #17 of 27 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagEC
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: L. L. Publishing Co., Inc.
On Sale Date: 02/13/1953
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 7 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Albert B. Feldstein
Disclose Notes: On sale date as given in the copyright application as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, January-June 1953, page 42, registration number B399038.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Format Notes:  
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Johnny Craig (signed)
Inker(s): Johnny Craig (signed)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
Character(s): Ronald Shelby; Anita Shelby
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #1 published July 1990
as Crime SuspenStories #17 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCrime Suspenstories #17 published November 1996
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Al Williamson

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Feldstein
Penciller(s): ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ? (photograph)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: biography
Feature(s): The EC "Artist of the Issue"
Character(s): Al Williamson
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Touch and Go!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Ray Bradbury; Johnny Craig (adaptation)
Penciller(s): Johnny Craig
Inker(s): Johnny Craig
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
Character(s): Arthur Huxley (death); William Acton (villain)
Synopsis: Acton had killed Arthur Huxley and now tried to remove any clue that he had been at Huxley's home and had committed the crime. But his fixation with eliminating evidence of his presence had its consequences.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Autumn People #U2141 published October 1965
as Touch and Go [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEC Portfolio #1 published January 1971
as Touch and Go! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss album #1 published November 1989
as Plettfri [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #1 published July 1990
as Touch and Go! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCrime Suspenstories #17 published November 1996
as Touch and Go! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFoul Play! The Art and Artists of the Notorious E.C. Comics! #[nn] published January 2005
as Touch and Go! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Adapted from the short story "Touch and Go" (later retitled "The Fruit at the bottom of the Bowl") by Ray Bradbury.

Some of the story appears in flashback.

Letterer credit by Craig Delich.
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One for the Money...

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
Penciller(s): Jack Kamen (signed)
Inker(s): Jack Kamen (signed)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
Character(s): Ronald Shelby (death); Anita Shelby (Ronald's wife, death); Harriet Walker (villain);Eric Walker (villain, Harriet's husband)
Synopsis: When Ronald tells his wife that he has bled his business dry and there is no more money, his wife tells him that she only cared for him because of money, and announces she's leaving him. He commits suicide, and Anita then returns to her old stomping grounds where she had found Ronald and hopes that lightning strikes again. Meanwhile, she joins an elderly woman having lunch and talks with her, then is surprised that the woman offers her to be her paid live-in companion. Arriving at the house, she confronts Harriet's husband Eric, once jilted by another woman, who craves women to get revenge on.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss album #1 published November 1989
as Ta et lik og la det vandre [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #1 published July 1990
as One for the Money... [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCrime Suspenstories #17 published November 1996
as One For the Money... [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.

Cover story.
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Big Blow!

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Feldstein
Penciller(s): Marie Severin (masthead illustration)
Inker(s): Marie Severin (masthead illustration)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Henderson (Markel's partner, death); Markel (villain, imminent death)
Synopsis: While traveling by car, Markel spots his partner asleep and kills him with a wrench. Locating a spot to discard the bloody instrument, he hurls it out the window, then locates a likely spot to engineer a crash with a semi truck so that the Police would not suspect the reality of his partner's head wound. Unfortunately, he discovers his car is traveling too fast to stop as planned......then as he approaches the rear of the truck, he spots a signed which said: DANGER! NITROGLYCERIN!!!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCrime Suspenstories #17 published November 1996
as Big Blow! [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Fired!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
Penciller(s): Al Williamson (signed)
Inker(s): Al Williamson (signed); Frank Frazetta [as Fritz] (signed)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
Character(s): Roy Willis (hired hand); Amy Ryan; Patricia Gibson (villain, Circle-Diamond owner)
Synopsis: As the owner of a cattle ranch, Patricia is getting lonely and longs for a man. That man is Roy Willis, a ranch hand who talks her into making him foreman. But soon he bores of Pat and seeks adventure in town with another woman. But Pat discovers the pair and decides to give Roy something to remember her by!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #1 published July 1990
as Fired! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCrime Suspenstories #17 published November 1996
as Fired! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #3 published March 2013
as Fired! [Story on Interior Page(s)]black and white reprint
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.
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...Two for the Show!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
Penciller(s): Bill Elder [as Elder] (signed); Jack Kamen (last panel)
Inker(s): Bill Elder [as Elder] (signed); Jack Kamen (last panel)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
Character(s): unnamed detective; Sarah Jameson (Harry's wife, death); Harry Jameson (villain); Harriet Walker (villain, cameo); Harriet's son (villain, cameo)
Synopsis: Harry has killed his wife and made it look as if she never came home from work. A perfect crime, until a nosy detective smells a rat!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss album #1 published November 1989
as Fra den ene til den andre [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #1 published July 1990
as ...Two for the Show! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCrime Suspenstories #17 published November 1996
as ...Two For The Show! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: The final panel by Kamen is a tie-in to "One for the Money...", the first story in this issue.

Script credit from The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (2012 series) #[18] - The Million Year Picnic and Other Stories.

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