Crime SuspenStories #5 Values

Title: Mr. Biddy ... Killer!

Characters: Sidney Brackman (Assistant D.A., narrator); Emily Chester (Archie's wife, death, in flashback); Mr. Biddy (make-believe villain, in flashback); Archie Chester (villain)

Synopsis: Really fed up with his wife, Archie ponders what to do.....until he meets a Mr. Biddy, who offers to kill his wife for Archie. But things are not what they seem once the foul deed is done.

Pages: 7.000

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

Pencils: Jack Davis (signed)

Inks: Jack Davis (signed)

Letters: Jim Wroten

Notes: Script revisions by Craig Delich. Much of the story is told in flashback.

Title: Smart!

Characters: Bernie (villain, Hal's partner, death); Hal Blake (villain, death)

Synopsis: Hal decides that splitting the take from a recent bank-job was no longer an option with his partner, so he rigs an elaborate way to kill his partner and keep the swag. What he didn't realize that his partner was thinking along the same lines.

Pages: 2.000

Script: Albert B. Feldstein

Pencils: ? (spot illustration)

Inks: ? (spot illustration)

Letters: typeset

Title: Idol

Characters: unnamed native guard (death); Atkins (villain, death)

Synopsis: Atkins murdwers a native guard, then makes his way into a temple in order to steal the fame Fang Ruby of the Snake Idol........a gem that carried a curse of immediate death to anyone trying to steal it. As he pried the fang-shaped ruby from the carved serpent's mouth, he discovered why the curse existed.......but it was the last thing he remembered.

Pages: 1.000

Script: Albert B. Feldstein

Letters: typeset

Notes: Masthead is a typeset title with colored background.

Title: The Gullible One

Characters: Fred Vanderhoff (death); Mr. Vanderhoff (Fred's father); Jeeves (Vanderhoff's servant); Group of hunters [Sy Dawson; Joe King (villain); Jerry Latch; Hal Allenby (death)]

Synopsis: Fred Vanderhoff invites a group of his hunter friends to his mountain retreat to do some hunting, but the next morning they discovered that a heavy snow had fallen overnight, trapping them in their retreat for at least two weeks. When their host is killed the next day, the others make their way to the Police, each suspecting the other of the crime. When all are invited by Fred's father to the Vanderhoff mansion, the old man has a test to prove who the guilty party is.

Pages: 6.000

Script: Bill Gaines (co-plot); Albert B. Feldstein (co-plot, script)

Pencils: Jack Kamen (signed)

Inks: Jack Kamen (signed)

Letters: Jim Wroten

Notes: Feldstein's script combines the elements of Agatha Christie's classic "And Then There Were None" with a Cornell Woolrich story, "After Dinner Story". Script revisions by Craig Delich.

Title: Partially Dissolved!

Characters: The Old Witch (host); Ventar the Great (magician, death); Molto (villain, Ventar's assistant, death)

Synopsis: Crowds flocked to the theater to see Ventar, acclaimed as good a magician as the late Houdini or Thurston. The magician later reveals to his long time assistant a new metal he created that dissolves in water, thus allowing his to do a variety of seemingly dangerous illusions. But the assistant double crosses his master and later assumes the role of master illusionist....until Ventar returns from the grave for justice.

Pages: 7.000

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

Pencils: Graham Ingels

Inks: Graham Ingels

Letters: Jim Wroten

Notes: Script revisions by Craig Delich.