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Issue: Crime Suspenstories #4
Publication Date: January 1983
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Issues: #4 of 5 Issues
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Publisher: FlagRuss Cochran
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Indicia Publisher: Russ Cochran, Publisher
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Volume: 4
Pages: 212
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UPC/EAN: none
Price: none entered
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Content Items: 41 (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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Al Williamson

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Genres: biography
Feature(s): The EC "Artist of the Issue"
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Touch and Go!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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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.
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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...

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Genres: crime
Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
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Big Blow!

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Genres: crime
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Fired!

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Genres: crime
Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
Character(s): Roy Willis (hired hand); Amy Ryan; Patricia Gibson (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!
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...Two for the Show!

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Notes and Comments

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Fall Guy for Murder

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Genres: crime
Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
Character(s): Edith Wilson [Edith Colby] (Harry's wife, death); Gregg Saunders (private detective, death); Phil (city coroner); Harry Wilson (villain)
Synopsis: Harry calls in his good friend, best man and private-eye, Gregg Saunders, to investigate the sudden disappearance of his wife, Edith. He finds a clue in a murder mystery novel called "Fall Guy For Murder", but, in the end, it is Gregg who turns out to be the fall guy!
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Disclose Notes: Letterer credit by Craig Delich, verified by Al Feldstein.

Script revision by Craig Delich.
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Juice for the Record!

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Genres: crime
Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
Character(s): Old Pop Martin (City Hospital Chief Electrician); Doctor Fielding; Richie Martin (villain, Pop's son, death); Ernie Butler (villain, death)
Synopsis: Seeing his only son involved with shady criminal elements, old Pop Martin tries to persuade his son to get away from that element and turn to decent pursuits. When he refuses and is shot by a crook that he supposedly swindled, Pop decides to record a confession implicating himself as the murderer of a crook giving Richie a hard time.
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Disclose Notes: Letters credit from Craig Delich, verified by Al Feldstein.

The Martin's address is 195 Birch.
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Eight Bar Rest

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Genres: crime
Character(s): Blackstone Presterjohn (attorney); Inspector Hardsteel (mention only); Ernie Treble (trumpet player, death); Barney Butz (villain, saxophone player)
Synopsis: Sure that his counselor-at-law can get him off on a temporary insanity plea, Barney tells his attorney in the prison cell block how he was hired, along with fellow musician Ernie Treble, to play a gig at a local club; but Ernie was a fanatic for facts, and every time the duo broke into song, Ernie would bore Barney to death with facts. Eventually, that led Barney to sever their relationship -- permanently!
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Frozen Assets!

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Genres: crime
Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
Character(s): Jasper Wentworth (lawyer, death); Mildred Wentworth (Jasper's Aunt, death); un-named doctor; Mort (villain, Helen's lover); Helen Wentworth (villain, Jasper's wife)
Synopsis: Lovers Mort and Helen, wanting to insure that Helen's husband (and thus her as well) would receive his aunt's $200,000+ inheritance, murder the husband and hide him away in a freezer, awaiting the aunt's death. Unfortunately, that move proves to be very costly for the both of them!
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From Here to Insanity

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Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
Character(s): Mrs. Greene (old woman); Mr. Tucker (apartment manager); un-named policemen; a homicidal maniac (villain)
Synopsis: A homicidal maniac, having committed several murders of young women because they could identify him, takes up residence in an old woman's apartment in order not to be discovered by the police. But he is in for a surprise in a way he could never expect!
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The Killer

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Wined-Up!

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Rendezvous!

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Murder May Boomerang

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About Phase

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Fire Trap!

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The Welchers

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Rope!

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Double Jeopardy

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Plane Murder

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Mother's Day

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Genres: crime
Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
Character(s): Donna Kingsley; Mr. Kingsley (Donna's husband); Fred Kingsley (Donna's son, death); Harold Kingsley (villain, Fred's brother, death)
Synopsis: Brothers Fred and Harold grew up with Harold given the best of everything, and Fred began to hate his brother. One day, Fred discovered that Harold had committed a theft and decided to take the rap for his brother and went to jail. Meanwhile, their mother, Donna, discovered that Harold had a gun and threatened to call the police. Harold struck her, paralyzing her from the neck down. After Harold was killed by the police, Fred was released from jail and returned to his mother to tell her the truth about Harold. When she didn't react, Fred killed himself.
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In the Groove

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Genres: crime
Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
Character(s): Rita Green (Garry's wife, death); Valeria Simms (Garry's love interest); Nick Saunders (radio engineer); Garry Green (villain, radio announcer)
Synopsis: A small-time radio announcer devises a plot to kill his wife, while he was broadcasting at the radio station. But he does not foresee a snag in those plans with the pre-recorded record he made and was playing over the airwaves.
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On Schedule!

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Genres: crime
Character(s): Sam (villain); Benny (villain); Lew (villain); The Brain (villain)
Synopsis: The Brain planned a robbery of the Second National Bank to be carried out by three thugs. The robbery went like clockwork and the three took the money on and went on the lam to hide out in the hills for four days. They planted dynamite in their getaway car that would destroy any evidence, while each of them toted certain provisions they would need to survive the four day. Unfortunately, the Brain failed to select one of them to carry the money, and the explosion blew up the money in the car.
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Understudies!

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Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
Character(s): Myrtle Donaldson (Jim's wife, death); Mr. Williams (Gail's husband); Jim Donaldson (villain); Gail Williams (villain)
Synopsis: Gail and Jim are unhappily married to their respective spouses, but, in fact, love one another. They decide on a daring plan to kill their mates and dissolve their bodies in quicklime to leave no trace. Further, they have separate photos taken of themselves together in disguise to fool any suspicious person that might smell a rat. But both soon discovered that the other was quickly becoming like their deceased mates and aim to do something about it.
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The last panel suggests that Gail and Jim kill each other.
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Blood Brothers

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Genres: crime
Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
Character(s): Fred Richards (Alex's brother, death); Alex Richards (villain, death)
Synopsis: Alex arrives unannounced at the beach house of his brother who invites him to stick around and stay with him. Alex's intent is to kill his brother after putting into place a whole series of alibis. Unfortunately, blood-stained from the deed, Alex decides to take a dip in the ocean to wash his brother's blood off, not knowing the water was infested with sharks!
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In Each and Every Package

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Monotony

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Safe

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Cinder Block

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Disclose Notes: Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.
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Sight Unseen

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Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
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Disclose Notes: Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.
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Russ Cochran Presents the Complete EC Library

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