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Behind attention-grabbing front covers illustrated by Feldstein, Johnny Craig, George Evans and Jack Kamen, each issue contained four stories centering around a wide variety of criminal activities. The stories were illustrated by Craig, Evans, 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. ''Crime SuspenStories'' displayed a noir-styled approach that differed from other crime comic books of the period. James M. Cain , Cornell Woolrich , radio's ''Suspense'', Jim Thompson and other fiction in that vein 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" and "Touch and Go" -- with Bradbury receiving a billboard blurb on the front covers. In 1983, Russ Cochran published the entire run of ''Crime SuspenStories'' in a slipcased edition of five hardbacks with annotations by mystery writer Max Allan Collins . |
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