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Issue: Who Is Next? #5 Public Domain
Publication Date: January 1953
 
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagPines
Brand: Standard ComicsView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Standard Magazines Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 8 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Publication listed as quarterly (however, only one issue was printed)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
Disclose Reprinted In5
reprinted 5 times as Content Items in other Issues.
Disclose Reprinted From0
There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
?
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Subject Matter
crime
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Cover page reflects Mad Killers Menace Our Safety - Who is Next?, followed by "Don't Let Me Kill!"
The Crushed Gardenia

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
crime
Johnny Faber; Ellie Taylor (death); Doctor Paul Crane; Officer Brune; Jack Gale
Johnny Faber was more dangerous...
The story of Johnny Faber: a young man who "had no control of his rages". Turned down by his girl Ellie, Johnny kills her in a jealous fit.
Reprinting
FlagSeduction of the Innocent! #3 published December 1985
as The Crushed Gardenia [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagBuried Treasure #1 published January 1986
as The Crushed Gardenia [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagThe Mammoth Book of Best Crime Comics #[nn] published January 2008
as The Crushed Gardenia [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagGenius, Isolated: The Life and Art of Alex Toth #[nn] published April 2011
as The Crushed Gardenia [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagSetting the Standard: Comics by Alex Toth 1952-1954 #[nn] published August 2011
as The Crushed Gardenia [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
8
B-1579 or B-1379
Signal 32

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
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?
Subject Matter
crime, non-fiction
Police in a prowl car...
Signal 32 on police radio means: "All cars proceed with caution".
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Miscellaneous
0.5
B-1311
Don't Let Me Kill

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
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?
Subject Matter
crime
Alex Vorple; Linda Krause (death); Eleanor Steiger (death)
He creeps rhrough the night...
The story of Alex Vorple: The ugly teen-age boy is driven to murder. Hearing voices, Alex feels compelled to drown his inferiority complex by killing girls.
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Miscellaneous
7
B-1369
Crazy Carl

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? (2 spot illustrations)
? (2 spot illustrations)
? (2 spot illustrations)
typeset
Subject Matter
crime
Crazy Carl (death); Ned Barlick
He was a dried-up little man...
Two unscrupulous businessmen murder "Crazy Carl", a hermit who won't sell them his house on the hill. Police catch the killers because Carl had whittled their faces into pieces of wood as he was dying.
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Miscellaneous
2
The Destroyer

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
Subject Matter
crime
Walter Graves [The Destroyer]; Mrs. Lacey; Joe Graves; Marilyn Hayes (death)
In the warped brain of a mad killer...
The story of Walter Graves: a war-traumatized veteran who breaks down and goes on a killing spree, taking four innocent lives.
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Miscellaneous
5
B-1417
Murder by Moonlight

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
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?
Subject Matter
crime
Police in a large city...
A serial robber and killer who strikes only during moonlit nights is finally caught.
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Miscellaneous
1
B-1415
Death on a Dark Street

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
Subject Matter
crime
Herbert Cole; Margie; Jerry; Grace (death); Miss Allison; Detective Sandy Keller
Herbert Cole was a paranoiac.
The story of Herbert Cole: a paranoiac who turns killer when his fiancée leaves him for another man. After a second murder attempt he is trapped by the police - and jumps to his own death.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
6
B-1398

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