Comic SUSPENSE (Part Three)

(1) "A Slight Case of Ghost-Breaking."

Unsigned.

Suspense Comics Number 6, October 1944.

Vignette (2 pages).

Online at Comic Book Plus (HERE; select pages 22-23).

(Note: Some text smudgy but readable.)

Characters: Nat Greene, Miles, Donald Lancing, Alex Trumann, Mrs. Cartwright, Mrs. Trumann, and Cedric Cartwright.

Story: It's said that ghosts appear whenever there's some unfinished business to be settled, which in this case will involve a long prison term if it's not settled right.

References: Greenwich Village (Wikipedia HERE), the Old Bailey (Wikipedia HERE), embezzlement (Wikipedia HERE), and Dartmoor (Wikipedia HERE).

For the next one, if you're not good at reading backwards then be sure to have a mirror handy.

(2) "A Crime That Nobody Saw."

Unsigned.

Suspense Comics Number 6, October 1944.

Vignette (1 page).

Online at Comic Book Plus (HERE; select page 49).

Characters: Murray White, two policemen, and Mr. Nobody.

Story: Judging from what happens to him, our killer probably never heard a French film producer's wise advice ("If you want to kill someone, you'd better pull off a perfect crime. Our security lies in the fact that that's damnably hard to do.")

Resources:

- Comic SUSPENSE (Part One) is (HERE) and (Part Two) is (HERE).

- An attempt at a Sherlock Holmes parody which doesn't quite succeed is (HERE).

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