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Suspense Comics (1943) 9 PR 0.5

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    Suspense Comics (1943) #9 PR 0.5
    Published Aug 1945 by Continental.

    Suspense Comics (1943) 9 PR 0.5

    INCOMPLETE. Multiple pieces torn out, interrupts art and story. 1 1/2" Cumulative spine split. Cover coming detached at both staples.

    Starts Nov 16

    Cover by L. B. Cole. Stories and art by Maurice Del Bourgos, Ezra Jackson, George H. Appel, Maurice Gutwirth, Bill Woolfolk, Lou Ferstadt, Nina Albright, Gerald Altman, Julia Gwin and L. B. Cole. Pre-Code crime and horror comics. Mr. Nobody is a shadowy, trench-coat-wearing narrator of horror and suspense tales, in the vein of the Crypt Keeper. A gangster forces a doctor to operate on his injured son, but the doctor is in a moral quandary over whether to turn the boy in to the police. The arch-fiend Satan abducts a bride and tries to coerce her into marrying him instead. Thieves steal an ancient Chinese idol and soon come to regret it. Mr. Nobody: My Son Has Returned; Sentence of Death; Satan; Mr. Nobody: Idol of Theft; Murder In the Hurricane; Mr. Nobody: Diamond of Death; Journey into Hell; Mr. Nobody: The Girl With the Blue Hair; Inspector Marsh's Crime Clues. 52 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10. Grade: PR 0.5 explanation of grade Condition: Used (collectible)