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Crime SuspenStories was a bi-monthly, anthology crime comic published by EC Comics in the early 1950s. The title hit newsstands with its October/November 1950 issue and ceased publication with its February/March 1955 issue, producing a total of 27 issues. Years after its demise, the title was reprinted in its entirety and four stories were adapted for television.
[edit] Writers and artistsEach issue contained four stories centering around a wide variety of criminal activities and displayed a noir-styled approach that differed from other crime comic books of the period. Issues 3 through 16 featured a guest appearance from The Haunt of Fear's Old Witch. Artists included Al Feldstein, Johnny Craig, George Evans and Jack Kamen,Wally Wood, Graham Ingels, Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Davis, George Roussos, Sid Check, Al Williamson, Fred Peters, Joe Orlando, Will Elder, Reed Crandall, Bernard Krigstein and Frank Frazetta. The predominant writers for the title were Feldstein, Gaines and Craig from 1950 - 1953, with other writers such as Carl Wessler, Otto Binder and Jack Oleck providing the majority of the writing for the rest of the comic's run. Johnny Craig was the lead artist for this title for the majority of its run, doing both the cover and the lead eight-page story. In 1954, Craig became editor of EC's The Vault of Horror. Since Craig was the slowest artist at EC, his new responsibilities forced him to drop his work on Crime Suspenstories. George Evans, Reed Crandall and Jack Kamen assumed the cover and lead story responsibilities for the rest of the run. [edit] InfluencesJames M. Cain, Cornell Woolrich, radio's Suspense, Jim Thompson and similar fiction were obvious influences on the Crime SuspenStories scripts by Craig, Feldstein, Carl Wessler and others. Two stories were adaptations from Ray Bradbury — "The Screaming Woman" (issue 15) and "Touch and Go" (issue 17) — with Bradbury receiving a billboard blurb on the front covers.[1] In addition to the Bradbury stories, other specific story influences that have been found include the following: [2]
[edit] DemiseThis was one of five titles voluntarily killed by publisher Bill Gaines in 1954 due to the increasing controversy surrounding horror and crime comics. [edit] ReprintsCrime SuspenStories was fully reprinted in a series of five black-and-white hardbacks by publisher Russ Cochran in 1983 with annotations by mystery writer Max Allan Collins. Between November 1992 and May 1999, Cochran (in association with Gemstone Publishing) reprinted the full 15 individual issues. In January 2008, as part of Gemstone/Cochran's EC Archives series of hardcover color reprints, the first six issues were reprinted as "Crime SuspenStories Volume 1", with a foreword by Max Allan Collins. [edit] Media adaptationsFour stories were used in HBO's Tales From The Crypt television series: Two For The Show (Issue 17), In The Groove (Issue 21), This'll Kill Ya (Issue 23), and Maniac At Large (Issue 27). [edit] Issue guide
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