Suspense #16 Values

Publisher: Marvel, 1952

About Suspense #16

Bob Fujitani and Ogden Whitney art.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: Horror Backstage!

Pencils: Sol Brodsky

Inks: Sol Brodsky ?

Colors: Stan Goldberg

Letters: Artie Simek ?; typeset

Notes: Coloring credit per Stan Goldberg.

STORY DETAILS

(5 Stories)

Title: Alone in the Dark!

Synopsis: Ten-year-old Donald Dugan is scared to death of his creepy Uncle Claude. One night, his parents go out for the evening, leaving Uncle Claude to watch over Donald. Claude reveals that he hates the Dugans because they are always threatening to kill him. He will avenge himself upon them by killing their son at the stroke of midnight. As the clock chimes midnight, Claude goes to attack, but Donald transforms into a werewolf and kills Claude instead. His parents return home. They lament the fact that their son was born a werewolf instead of a vampire like they are.

Pages: 7.000

Script: Stan Lee

Pencils: Fred Kida

Inks: Fred Kida

Reprints: Dead of Night (Marvel, 1973 series) #8 (February 1975)

Title: My Coffin Is Crowded

Synopsis: A convict makes a deal with a man that, in exchange for half the stolen loot, he will dig him up if he climbs into a marked coffin with a recently deceased inmate. The ruse works, and he is buried, but hours go by and no one comes to dig him up. He lights a match and sees that the body next to him is the man who was supposed to dig him up.

Pages: 5.000

Pencils: Bob Fujitani ?

Inks: Bob Fujitani ?

Reprints: Crypt of Shadows (Marvel, 1973 series) #15 (January 1975)

Title: The Corpse

Synopsis: A diver kills an old man for his map of a sunken freighter loaded with gold and then gets his air hose snagged by the corpse.

Pages: 4.000

Script: Carl Wessler

Pencils: Frank Sieminski

Inks: Frank Sieminski

Reprints: Weird Wonder Tales (Marvel, 1973 series) #8 (February 1975)

Notes: Art credits from atlastales.com. Wessler credit per biblio in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol. 20, No. 4, April 2009.

Title: Backstage Madness

Synopsis: An actor wants to get another actor out of the way so he convinces him to take a horror role because he knows this man gets so into his part that he will kill someone eventually and hang. Unfortunately for him, that 'someone' turns out to be him.

Pages: 5.000

Pencils: Ogden Whitney

Inks: Ogden Whitney

Reprints: Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #33 (January 1975)

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CGC Census Report*

Grade	NG	PG	CVR	0.5	1.0	1.5	1.8	2.0	2.5	3.0	3.5	4.0	4.5	5.0	5.5	6.0	6.5	7.0	7.5	8.0	8.5	9.0	9.2	9.4	9.6	9.8	9.9	10.0	Total
Universal	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	6	2	1	3	1	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	20
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
CGCxJSA	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Restored	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	6	2	1	3	1	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	20

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