Crime SuspenStories #3
"Poison!" from Crime SuspenStories #3 (1951) delivers a taut, pulse-pounding tale of desperation and misjudgment, written by Al Feldstein. After a bank heist ends in murder, a fleeing robber takes a risky mountain route, only to face a roadblock he doesn’t understand—his panic mounting as he realizes too late he’s trapped by circumstances beyond his control. The cover by Johnny Craig captures the story’s chilling tension with stark, cinematic precision.
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Having successfully robbed a bank and killing the guard, the robber decides to take a chance and leisurely make his getaway, hoping that the police would not notice him. As his car climbs high into the mountains, he spots a road block and desperately looks for a way to escape, not realizing the police were stopping cars from going further on due to a landslide.
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