Suspense #11

This November 1951 Atlas anthology delivers exactly what its tagline promises — "Stories Calculated to Keep You in Suspense!" The cover, penciled by Carl Burgos and inked by Christopher Rule, pulls you straight into a tense tunnel scene: a man in a blue coat lunges desperately toward a blonde woman fleeing in alarm, while another figure sprawls unconscious on the ground amid scattered papers and an open suitcase — a speech balloon warning, "Come back, you fool! You know what it means to look inside The Suitcase!" Small inset panels tease additional tales including "Haunted!" and "Behind the Door!," rounding out a full lineup of weird mystery that made Atlas horror anthologies such a vivid part of early-'50s comics.