This Is Suspense #25

Charlton's This Is Suspense #25 sets the tension in motion before you even open the cover — a stylishly dressed woman seated in a car cheerfully remarks, "Gosh, look at this hill… I'm glad you had the brakes fixed!", while her companion's panicked reply, "The brakes??", hangs in the air like a terrible punchline. Dick Giordano's pencils and Vince Alascia's inks deliver the close-up scene with sharp, expressive detail, the woman's wide blue eyes and bold hat filling the frame as trees rush past the window behind her. For a 1955 dime, this issue promises exactly the kind of everyday-dread storytelling that made mid-century suspense anthologies so irresistible.