Suspense #12

This December 1951 Atlas anthology promises exactly what its tagline delivers — "Stories Calculated to Keep You in Suspense!" — and George Tuska's cover art sets an unsettling tone immediately. A hulking, skull-faced figure crouches menacingly on a moonlit road, leering at a terrified couple with the chilling greeting, "You should have expected to meet me when you walked down... The Dark Road!" Sidebar panels tease additional tales — a cloaked old woman, a figure engulfed in fire, and a screaming redhead — making it clear this issue is packed with the kind of creepy, pulpy thrills that made early 1950s horror-suspense comics so irresistible.