Crime SuspenStories #18 Values

Title: Juice for the Record!

Characters: 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.

Pages: 7.000

Script: Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)

Pencils: Bill Elder (signed)

Inks: Bill Elder (signed)

Letters: Jim Wroten

Notes: Letterer credit from Craig Delich, verified by Al Feldstein. The Martin's address is 195 Birch. Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.

Title: Eight Bar Rest

Characters: 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!

Pages: 1.000

Script: Al Feldstein

Pencils: Marie Severin

Inks: Marie Severin

Letters: typeset

Notes: Colorist credit from Craig Delich.

Title: Frozen Assets!

Characters: Jasper Wentworth (lawyer, death); Mildred Wentworth (Jasper's Aunt, death); unnamed 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!

Pages: 6.000

Script: Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)

Pencils: Jack Kamen [as Kamen] (signed)

Inks: Jack Kamen [as Kamen] (signed)

Letters: Jim Wroten

Notes: Letters credit from Craig Delich, verified by Al Feldstein. Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.

Title: From Here to Insanity

Characters: Mrs. Greene (old woman); Mr. Tucker (apartment manager); unnamed 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!

Pages: 7.000

Script: Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)

Pencils: Reed Crandall [as R. Crandall] (signed)

Inks: Reed Crandall [as R. Crandall] (signed)

Letters: Jim Wroten

Notes: Letterer credit by Craig Delich, verified by Al Feldstein. Script revisions by Craig Delich. Cover story.