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ISSUE SUMMARY

Publisher: Charlton
Title: Strange Suspense Stories
Page Count: 36
Genre: Crime, Horror-suspense
Era: Golden
Cover Price: 0.10 USD
Cover Date: January 1954
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Country: United States
Three bankrobbers set up booby traps for each other to maximize their share of the loot. All of them are killed in the progress.; Basil and Gertrude Jethro are a married couple of brillant surgeons. When Basil takes out an insurance on Gertrude's life, she decides to murder her insane husband first. They change identities via plastic surgery and Gertrude can pose as Basil and cash in on the insurance money.; Two killers stow away on a freight ship to Africa. When one of them needs his appendix to be removed, they force the ship's doctor to do so. The doctor is killed afterwards, but he left a surprise in the gangster's stomach.; Jealousy and treachery tear apart a circus trapaze act.; Henpecked husband Charlie Noonan constructs an explosive alarm clock to murder his wife. When the bomb goes off, he himself is felled by a deadly heart attack.; Bankrobber is caught in the subway, because has hasn't the dime admittance handy.