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Issue: Crime SuspenStories #15
Publication Date: February 1953
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Issues: #15 of 27 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagEC
Brand: object(PgSql\Result)#3 (0) { }
Indicia Publisher: L. L. Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 10/21/1952
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 7 (6 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, 1952, page 66, registration number B381806.
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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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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): Charlie Nesbitt; Helen Nesbitt
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCrime Suspenstories #15 published May 1996
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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When the Cat's Away...

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Johnny Craig (signed)
Penciller(s): Johnny Craig (signed)
Inker(s): Johnny Craig (signed)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
Character(s): Emma (Jay's wife, death); Dick (Jay's best friend, death); Jay (villain, Emma's husband)
Synopsis: Jay and his wife are always fighting, and Jay always finds solace at a friend's home. However, when he discovers that his friend and his wife are lovers, Jay decides on a scheme to rid himself of the problem: permanently!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #2 [unnamed variant] published October 1991
as When the Cat's Away... [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #3/1993 published January 1993
as Når katten er borte [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCrime Suspenstories #15 published May 1996
as When The Cat's Away... [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Colorist and letterer credits by Craig Delich.
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The Screaming Woman!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Ray Bradbury; Al Feldstein (adaptation)
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): Margaret Leary; Mrs. Leary (Margaret's mother); Mr. Leary (Margaret's father); Mr. Kelly; Mr. Pike; Emma Pike; Mrs. Griswold; Helen Nesbitt; Charlie Nesbitt (villain)
Synopsis: When Margaret's parents send her for ice cream, she walked through a lot and heard a woman's voice coming from underground, begging for someone to dig her up. When she tells her parents about it, they don't believe her, but they do discuss the Nesbitts. Once, long ago, Mr. Leary was engaged to Helen Nesbitt, who wrote a song for him....but they broke off the engagement. When Margaret's Dad goes to check on the story, no sounds can be heard. Later, Margaret returns to the lot and hears a sad song being sung by the woman...the song Helen once wrote for her father.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Autumn People #U2141 published October 1965
as The Screaming Woman [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #2 [unnamed variant] published October 1991
as The Screaming Woman! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #4/1993 published January 1993
as En kvinnes skrik [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCrime Suspenstories #15 published May 1996
as The Screaming Woman! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Adapted from the short story "The Screaming Woman" by Ray Bradbury.
Cover story.
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The EC Caper

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Feldstein
Penciller(s): ? (masthead illustration)
Inker(s): ? (masthead illustration)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, humorous
Character(s): Bill Gains; Marie Severin; Al Feldstein; Ruby Kast; Jerry Dee; Jack Davis (mention only); Bill Elder (mention only); Graham Ingels (mention only); Al Williamson (mention only); Wally Wood (mention only); Johnny Severin (mention only); Sidney Greenalley [aka the Obese Man] (villain); Greenalley's gang (villains)
Synopsis: While sitting in his office, Bill Gaines has a surprise visitor: the Obese Man, brandishing a gun at Gaines. He demanded, on the part of his client, Beaten Path Comics, to either sell out to his rival publisher or get a shower of molten lead. Refusing to sell, Gaines, artist-writer Feldstein and writer Dee are knocked unconscious and awaken tacked to the carpet, while torture shoes are applied to them. Suddenly, Marie Severin and secretary Ruby Kast burst into the room and attack the thugs with an address-o-graph and a wooden T-square, over-coming them.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #2 [unnamed variant] published October 1991
as The EC Caper [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCrime Suspenstories #15 published May 1996
as The EC Caper [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Water, Water, Everywhere...

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
Penciller(s): George Evans (signed)
Inker(s): George Evans (signed)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
Character(s): prison guards [Jock; Pierre]; Louis Duval (villain, death); Henri (villain, death)
Synopsis: A pair of prisoners escape from a South American island prison and are chased by prison guards with bloodhounds. The guards, however, trick the men, leaving them a boat without much gas.....and no water on board.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #2 [unnamed variant] published October 1991
as Water, Water Everywhere... [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCrime Suspenstories #15 published May 1996
as Water, Water, Everywhere... [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Quickie #1 of 2.
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...And Not a Drop to Drink!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
Penciller(s): George Evans (signed)
Inker(s): George Evans (signed)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
Character(s): Louis Dvall (villain, death); Henri (villain, death)
Synopsis: Two prisoners, who have escaped from a small prison on the edge of the Sahara Desert, take off in a jeep that was left for them, and head for the sea. They soon run out of gas and find themselves far from their goal in the heat of the desert with no water.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #2 [unnamed variant] published October 1991
as ...And Not a Drop to Drink! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCrime Suspenstories #15 published May 1996
as ...And Not a Drop to Drink! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Quickie #2 of 2.
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Hail and Heart-y!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
Penciller(s): Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)
Inker(s): Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Haunt of Fear
Character(s): The Old Witch (host); Mr. Danbury (Storch's neighbor); Doctor Brewster (Anna's doctor); Anna Storch; Ben Storch (Anna's husband, death)
Synopsis: Anna was sick and tired of her lazy husband refusing to do any chores around the house, and having to rely on a kind neighbor to help with her chores. When she discovers that her husband does not have a heart condition like he had claimed, Anna decides to find a way to make Ben very useful around the place!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTales from the Crypt #2 [unnamed variant] published October 1991
as Hail and Heart-y! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCrime Suspenstories #15 published May 1996
as Hail and Heart-y! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Script revision by Craig Delich, formerly Albert B. Feldstein.

Letterer credit by Craig Delich.

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