Suspense Comics #12

Mr. Nobody tracks three murderous brothers—Jan, Hugo, and Erik—who assassinate Ambassador Hall during a victory celebration and take refuge in a penthouse hotel. Using psychological manipulation and their own confessed fears against them, Mr. Nobody methodically orchestrates their downfalls without laying a hand on them. A masterclass in how terror and imagination can be deadlier than any weapon.

Madame Nobody—a woman's conscience—tells the cautionary tale of Lydia Holmes, who married the wealthy but aging Michael Holmes a decade ago and now languishes in their gilded cage. When a young architect named John Walsh enters their lives with genuine kindness and attention, Lydia finds herself tempted toward a dangerous path, even as guilt and compassion threaten to undo her carefully laid plans.

A nondescript handy man named Lame John finds himself drawn into a series of heists when voices from his criminal past seem to guide him toward easy scores—a warehouse job, then a jewelry store. But when a fatal mistake at Giffany's leaves behind physical evidence, the net closes in, and Lame John's desperate choices in the interrogation room set off a chain of guilt and recrimination that his own mind can no longer bear. This tense noir tale explores how a man's subconscious becomes his ultimate undoing.

When a protection racket threatens Gribbitts Rivets Inc., detective Mr. Gribbitts and his partner Sherry Flippe take the case—though Mr. Gribbitts soon finds himself caught between his brother Elmo's extortion troubles and Sherry's suspicious romantic entanglement with the factory superintendent. As chaos unfolds at the office safe, the detectives must untangle who's behind the shakedown before things spiral further out of control.

When a brilliant brain surgeon named Dr. Bernice Long is brutally attacked on the eve of exposing a corrupt colleague's drug-trafficking scheme, Grey Mask—the vigilante physician Malcolm Muir—must operate to save her life and hunt down the culprit. As Muir closes in on the truth, he discovers the criminal is a fellow doctor willing to kill to protect his underworld racket, forcing the masked healer into a desperate race against time to stop a murderer before he can finish what he started.

A loan shark finds his office occupied by an unexpected visitor—Dave Stephens, a man with troubles weighing heavy on his mind—but what begins as a tense confrontation takes a darker turn when a gunshot rings out. Gordon Brand must piece together what really happened, facing a puzzle where the evidence of suicide doesn't quite add up.