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Issue: Crime Suspenstories #3
Publication Date: January 1983
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Issues: #3 of 5 Issues
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Publisher: FlagRuss Cochran
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Indicia Publisher: Russ Cochran, Publisher
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 3
Pages: 180
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Price: none entered
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Content Items: 38 (30 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Russ Cochran
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color cover; black & white interior
Dimensions: 10" x 13"
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Binding: Hardcover
Publishing Format: Collected Edition
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Genres: crime
Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
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The Execution!

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Genres: crime
Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
Character(s): Alvis (stranded motorist, prison's Chief Engineer); Inmate #82562 (death); Warden Johnson; unnamed prison doctor; inmate's wife; inmates's children (cameo); unnamed inmate's lawyer; unnamed girl (cameo, death); prison chaplain
Synopsis: A man stops for a standed motorist who has skidded into a snowbank. At about the same time, a young woman is murdered, and from the description of the killer and the getaway car, it seems that the man who aided the stranded motorist is guilty. He is imprisoned and faces the electric chair unless the man he helped out comes forward the clear him.
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Murder the Lover!

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Genres: crime
Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
Character(s): Jeanne Martin (Kenneth's wife); Walter Graham (Jeanne's lover, Kenneth's friend, death); Kenneth Martin (villain, wealthy businessman, death)
Synopsis: A businessman, Ken Martin, comes home one evening and discovers his wife in the arms of his best friend, Walt. Ken swears revenge, so he calls the man up and suggests the two go moose hunting together, while secretly planning to "accidently" kill him. He succeeds, but a moose decides Kenneth's fate.
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Murder the Husband!

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Genres: crime
Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
Character(s): Kenneth Martin (wealthy businessman, death); Jeanne Martin (Kenneth's wife); Walter Graham (villain, Kenneth's friend, Jeanne's lover, death)
Synopsis: Walter is madly in love with Kenneth's wife, but he knows his friend will never get a divorce, so he decides to kill him. When Kenneth invites Walter on a moose hunting trip, Walter agrees, and the pair go out in a boat loaded with ropes and weights. Walter shoots and kills Kenneth, but his bullets go through the bottom of the boat, causing it to sink, and Walter can't swim!
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Trap!

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Character(s): Hackett (villain, death)
Synopsis: Hackett kills someone and empties his pockets, leaving behind a monogrammed handkerchief and a keycase, taking the man's money only, realizing the other items could trap him into a murder charge. He goes to a bar and wishes to pay for his bill with a dime taken from his victim, but he sees that the coin has a hole in the center, so pays for the bill with a quarter. He throws the dime away, believing it to be the victim's lucky coin, but more appear in his pocket. Later killed in a car accident, the killer never hears the anouncement over the radio about these dimes!
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Snooze to Me!

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Genres: crime
Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
Character(s): Mr. Crestwood (Herbert's co-worker); Higgin (business associate of Herbert's); Nancy Chase (Herbert's wife, death); Herbert Chase (villain, Nancy's husband); Edith (villain, the Chase's maid, Herbert's lover)
Synopsis: Herbert comes home late one night and his waiting wife. Suspecting that he is having an affair, she confronts him, shooting down all of his alibis. She tells him to leave but has second thoughts and phones him to come back, but he refuses. So she devises a plot to take a whole bottle of sleeping pills after writing a suicide note, then have Edith, her maid, call Herbert, then an ambulance so the attendants can save her life. But Edith and Herbert pull a fast one on Nancy!
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Paralyzed!

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Genres: horror
Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
Character(s): The Old Witch (host); Selma (the Hewton's friend); Mrs. Stark (neighbor of the Hewton's); Ernest Hewton (death); Gladys Hewton (villain, Ernest's wife, death)
Synopsis: A seemingly happily married couple actually hate one another, and the husband wants out of the 15-year marriage. The wife refuses. They get involved in an auto accident, and Gladys is paralyzed in the wreck. Ernest decides to stay with her to tend to her needs but demands a night off every week. He buys her a gun to shoot any intruder that may break in while he is gone. When he comes home, Gladys has a surprise for him; she is not paralyzed after all, and she intends to kill him!
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Notes and Comments

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Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
Character(s): Lizzie Borden; Mr. Borden; Mrs. Borden
First Line: Lizzie Borden took an axe...and gave her father forty whacks!
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Hear No Evil!

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First Impulse!

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Second Chance?

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Freak!

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A Question of Time!!

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Genres: horror
Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
Character(s): Harry Wismer; Lila Wismer (Harry's wife, death); un-named female (death); Fred (mortician); un-named Sheriff
Synopsis: A woman is found murdered and horribly mutilated, in a tourist cabin and the suspicion is that Harry Wismer has murdered his wife. They are wrong......at least for the time being!
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Forty Whacks!

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Genres: horror
Feature(s): Haunt of Fear
Character(s): The Old Witch (host)
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Sweet Dreams!

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Genres: crime
Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
Character(s): Pamela Kaine (Martin's wife, death); Dr. Firestone (Pamela's doctor); Martin Kaine (villain)
Synopsis: Martin was sorry that he ever married Pamela, and Pamela's medical condition gives him a great opportunity to do away with her. But the idea backfires in a way that he'd never suspect.
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The Perfect Place!

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The Pouch

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The Electric Chair

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The Hangman's Noose

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The Guillotine!

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Private Performance

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Genres: horror
Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
Character(s): The Old Witch (host); Dora (Leo's wife, death); Leo (villain, master magician); Herbie (villain, a thief, death)
Synopsis: A thief, eyeing a rich woman's jewels for some time, decides to commit robbery one evening at her home after she and her husband had retired. Once inside, he suddenly witnesses the couple arguing and the man kill his wife. Unfortunately for the thief, the man spots him and vows to kill him as well, chasing him to the basement. There the thief learns what the man had done for a living, and it was the last thing he ever learned.
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When the Cat's Away...

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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!
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The Screaming Woman!

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The EC Caper

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Water, Water, Everywhere...

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...And Not a Drop to Drink!

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Hail and Heart-y!

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Genres: horror
Feature(s): 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!
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Rendezvous!

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Genres: crime
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Character(s): Ruby (Joe's secretary); Nickie (Joe's girl); Charlie (a gambler); Mr. Holmes (Book Keeping department head, death); Joe Haines (villain, book keeper, embezzler, death)
Synopsis: Joe and his office companions are taking bets that Charlie will have an airplane accident.....just as a lark. Then, when Joe's boss suspects that the company's books are being juggled, Joe devises a plan to make sure his boss will have a plane accident himself. He does, but with disastrous results for Joe.
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Fission Bait!

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Scorpion

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Come Clean!

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Genres: crime
Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
Character(s): Death (host); Ralph Jansen; Lillian Smith (flashback); Nick (saloon owner, flashback); un-named Prison Warden (flashback); Mrs. Woodman (Lillian's landlady, flashback) ; un-named District Attorney (flashback); Ben (prison guard, flashback); Mr. Sutton (tailor, flashback)
Synopsis: Ralph Jones has been found guilty of strangling his girl friend and is strapped in the electric chair facing a horrible death, all for a crime he didn't commit but in which circumstantial evidence led to his conviction.
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Who's Next?

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Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
Character(s): The Old Witch (host)
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