This title is a researcher/indexer's
nightmare. It started out as Fawcett's Strange Suspense Stories
for #s1-9, then turned into Lawbreakers Suspense Stories #s 10-15,
was bought by Charlton and turned back to SSS #s 16-22. With #23 the title
turned into This is Suspense for 4 issues. With #27 it is again
SSS, until #77, for #78 is the first as Captain Atom. Are you still
reading this? To top the bill, there was a SECOND series of SSS as well!
Although I leave out all of the Fawcett issues, This is Suspense
#s 23-26 are simply slipped in with the rest of them!
Run: #16 (January 1954)-22 (November 1954); #23
(February 1955)-#26 (August 1955); #27 (October 1955)-#77 (October
1965).
Creator credits: Vince Alascia art #19; Jim Aparo art #60;
Ernie Bache cover #66; Steve Ditko
art #s 18-20, 31-37, 39, 40, 41, 45, 47, 48, 50-53 reprints #s 75-77
covers #s 18-20, 22, 31-35, 37, 40, 45, 47, 48, 50, 51; George Evans
reprints #24; Dick Giordano covers #s 16, 17, 24, 25; José Montes cover
#66; Joe Shuster art #s 19, 21; Marcus Swayze art #s 26, 27; Wally Wood
reprints #23.
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