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9February-March 1952
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Crime SuspenStories #9

EC · February-March 1952 · on sale 1951-10-25

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Identification plate

Series
Crime SuspenStories (EC, 1950 series)
Issue
#9
Publication date
February-March 1952
Key date
1952-02-00
On-sale date
1951-10-25
Indicia publisher
L. L. Publishing Co. Inc.
Price
$0.10
Pages
36
Rating
Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code

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Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0Crime SuspenStoriescover1pencils: Johnny Craig; inks: Johnny Craig; colors: Marie SeverinAlice; Brad
1Johnny Craigtext article1script: Al FeldsteinJohnny Craig (photo)
2Understudy to a Corpse!comic story8script: Johnny Craig; pencils: Johnny Craig; inks: Johnny Craig; colors: Marie Severin; letters: Jim WrotenBrad; Alice (Brad's wife); Cyrus Klitch (miserly hypocrite, death, in flashback); Myra (villain, Klitch's nurse, in flashback); Jeremy (villain, Klitch's nephew, death, in flashback)
3Medicine!comic story7script: Bill Gaines, Al Feldstein; pencils: Jack Kamen; inks: Jack Kamen; colors: Marie Severin; letters: Jim WrotenDr. Luther Haines (famed surgeon); Sally Doyle (Luther's nurse); Nora Bates Haines (villain, Luther's wife, death)
4Accidenttext story2script: Al FeldsteinShinwell (party host); Mary Munsey (Muncie's wife); Alfred Munsey (villain)
5SuspenStory Scribblings!letters page1letters: typeset
6Cut!comic story6script: Bill Gaines, Al Feldstein; pencils: Jack Davis; inks: Jack Davis; colors: Marie Severin; letters: Jim WrotenJohn Hammond (screen idol, death); Emery Edwards (movie director); Marx (lighting man); Pierre Marcel (Slade's make-up man); Billings (Hammond's butler); Russell Slade (villain, stand-in for Hammond, death)
7A Tree Grows in Borneo!comic story7script: Bill Gaines, Al Feldstein; pencils: Graham Ingels; inks: Graham Ingels; colors: Marie Severin; letters: Jim WrotenThe Old Witch (host); George Wilkers (death); Amos Hall (villain, death)

Where to read it

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Crime Suspenstories #91994On eBay ›
Fall Guy for Murder and Other Stories
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Grave Business and Other Stories
ISBN 978-1-60699-827-4		2015On eBay ›
Forty Whacks and Other Stories
ISBN 978-1-60699-862-5		2015On eBay ›
Crime Suspenstories #21983On eBay ›
The Living Mummy and Other Stories
ISBN 978-1-60699-929-5		2016On eBay ›
The EC Archives: Crime Suspenstories #2
ISBN 1-50670-039-X; 978-1-50670-039-7		2016On eBay ›

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