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Issue: Suspense #1
Publication Date: December 1949
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Issues: #1 of 29 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel Comic [round logo]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Cornell Publishing Corp.
On Sale Date: 09/16/1949
Volume: 1
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 10 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Vol. 3, Part 2, No. 2, Periodicals, 1949, p. 270, Copyright number: B212465.
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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
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The Bride Vanishes!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ? (photogeaph)
Colorist(s): ? (photograph)
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Photograph of actors Peter Lorre, Sidney Greenstreet, and Joan Lorring from Warner Bros. Pictures' The Verdict (1946).
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The Graveyard Ghouls!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Matt; Rob; Dr. Arnold; Mrs. Tancred; Mother Slade; Peggy; Police Inspector Stalker
First Line: Turn back the clock of crime 100 years!
Synopsis: Dr. Arnold buys corpses from Mrs. Slade's gang. However, the police capture the gang in the act. The "dead body" they sold Arnold turns out to be Peggy, who was to rob the house during the night. Arnold falls in love with Peggy and decides to marry her while the rest of Mrs. Slade's gang are arrested.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Job Number: 6653
Disclose Notes: Art credits per Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. via atlastales.com. Previous indexer credited Bill Everett on pencils.

Adapted from John Dickson Carr's Suspense episode "the Body Snatchers" (November 24, 1942). Info from http://section244.blogspot.com/

It may be coincidence that the character on the first page is named Matt - ?Baker.
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Buy Magazines with the Circular Seal

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
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Pages: 0.5
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The Corpse Came Back!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Henry Wilson; Charles Dobbs; Tom Higby; Jim; Sergeant Leeds; Effie
First Line: Impotent fury chokes Henry Wilson...
Synopsis: Henry kills his boss Dobbs at night, but Tom sees him leaving. Henry seemingly kills Tom and leaves his body in Charles' office, but the next day Henry keeps seeing Tom around the office. Henry is driven mad and leaps out the building to his death, not realizing the police arranged for Tom to ply at Henry's guilty conscience by posing as his own ghost.
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Pages: 6
Job Number: 6656
Disclose Notes: Adapted from the Suspense radio episode "Statement of Employee Henry Wilson" by John Shaw, broadcast November 2, 1943.
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Casey Crime Photographer

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ? (illustration)
Inker(s): ? (illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: House ad for Casey Crime Photographer.
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The Curse of the Coin

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (2 spot illustrations)
Inker(s): ? (2 spot illustrations)
Colorist(s): ? (2 spot illustrations)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
First Line: When my grandfather died...
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In Content Item: FlagSuspense #6 published January 1951
as The Curse of the Coin [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagVenus #13 published April 1951
as The Evil Coin [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]as "The Evil Coin"
In Content Item: FlagMen's Adventures #23 published September 1953
as The Midas Curse! [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]retitled
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: SL-6252
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The Bride Vanishes!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Tom; Lucy; Josephine Adams; Granger; Guiseppi; Countess Nellie Luchesi; Count Luchesi
First Line: There was only one key to the mystery of the empty balcony...
Synopsis: Tom and Lucy stay at a villa where Josephine Adams once mysteriously disappeared from a balcony. The same thing happens to Lucy, but she's found in the Blue Grotto below and saved in a boat. The boat tips over and Countess Luchesi drowns, but Count Luchesi admits that his jealous wife was the person hurling women from the balcony.
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Pages: 8
Job Number: 6655
Disclose Notes: Adapted from John Dickson Carr's Suspense episode "the Bride Vanishes" (December 1, 1942).
Pencils credit from atlastales.com
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You Asked for It!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Feature(s): Man Comics #1
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: House ad for Man Comics includes cover repro.
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Here Comes the Hangman!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Helen Barton; Dr. Wise; the warden of Maidhurst Prison; Hannah; Philip Gale (death); Herbert Gale (murderer)
First Line: Helen Barton woke up suddenly in the middle of the night!
Synopsis: Helen is about to be hung for murdering Philip, but Dr. Wise proves the actual killer was Herbert.
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Pages: 8
Job Number: 6654
Disclose Notes: Adapted from John Dickson Carr's Suspense episode "The Hangman Won't Wait" (February 9, 1943).
Pencils credit from atlastales.com
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Alone with Murder!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Marty Groves; Beth Hughes
First Line: It was the evening after the third neighborhood murder...
Synopsis: Beth mistakes Marty for the killer targeting women in New York.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: 6621
Disclose Notes: Art credits per Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. via atlastales.com.

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