Carl Memling Suspense Stories

A feature of Charlton's Lawbreakers Suspense Stories and its retitling, Strange Suspense Stories, for awhile was the contest where readers provided a solution to an unfinished story; that synopsis would be scripted and illustrated in a later issue. The odd thing is that Carl Memling scripted five of the solutions but only one of the unfinished story/solution pairs.

"What Was in Sam Dora's Box?" (art by Steve Ditko) recycles a gimmick from an EC story but the pun in the character's name is what's of interest here; compare with the (better) pun for Memling's story "Appointment with Sam Mara" in Dell's Ghost Stories 4 Oct-Dec/63).

Memling's stories may start in #11, which I haven't seen.

Written by Carl Memling:
Lawbreakers Suspense Stories

May/53	12	Breakout
		Murder on Rye
July/	13	Death Raps Twice
		Escape from the Noose
		Change in Script
Sep/	14	Man Overboard
		The Last Drop
		Richard Capp's Solution to "Murder on Rye"
Nov/	15	Out of the Frying Pan

Strange Suspense Stories

Mar/54	17	Beautiful Night for Murder
		10¢ Worth of Doom
May/	18	What Was in Sam Dora's Box?
		Caroline Denver's Solution to "Face to Face"
		Dead Right
Jul/	19	All Burnt Up
Aug/	20	The Payoff
		Donald Coronado's Solution to "Moment of Decision"
Sep/	21	Mary Lou Wachtel's Solution to..."Prize Package"
Nov/	22	Malcolm Hutcher's Solution to..."The Kill"