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Issue: Shock SuspenStories #12
Publication Date: December 1953
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Issues: #12 of 18 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagEC
Brand: EC An Entertaining ComicView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Tiny Tot Comics, Inc.
On Sale Date: 09/24/1953
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 7 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Al Feldstein
Disclose Notes: On sale date as given in the copyright application as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, January-June 1953, page 140, registration number B436990.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard golden age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover, newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing
Format Notes:  
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Disclose Images4
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Gaines File Copy CGC NM/MT 9.8
 
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Adult Image
Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): Al Feldstein (match cover) ?
Penciller(s): Al Feldstein [as Feldstein] (signed)
Inker(s): Al Feldstein [as Feldstein] (signed)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Eddie
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagE.C. Classic Reprint #3 published January 1973cover
In Content Item: FlagShock Suspenstories #12 published June 1995
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Drug story cover.
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Deadline

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
Penciller(s): Jack Kamen (signed)
Inker(s): Jack Kamen (signed)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Phil Mason [aka Paul in the opening blurb] (newspaper editor); Annie (Larry's love interest, wife of diner owner); Stan (newspaper reporter); Mike (diner owner); Larry Grieg (villain, ex-newspaper reporter)
Synopsis: An alcoholic ex-reporter tries to get back on his feet after meeting a girl, and his old boss says he can have his job back if he brings in a story. While sitting in a diner he hears violence occuring in the next room, and the diner owner comes out and confesses to murder. Larry thinks he's found his story and takes down all the details, then checks on the girl and discovers two things about her: she is still alive and she is the girl he had met earlier!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #3/1991 published January 1991
as Deadline [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShock Suspenstories #12 published June 1995
as Deadline [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.
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The Monkey

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
Penciller(s): Joe Orlando (signed)
Inker(s): Joe Orlando (signed)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Sue Minner (drug user); Mr. Clements (Eddie's boss); Eddie's unnamed father (death); Eddie's unnamed mother; unnamed narcotics officer; Sid Scanlon (villain, drug dealer); Eddie (villain, drug addict)
Synopsis: A drug addict murders his father in order to get his fix.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagShock Suspenstories #12 published June 1995
as The Monkey [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Drug story.

Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.
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Last Laugh!

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Feldstein
Penciller(s): Marie Severin (spot illustration)
Inker(s): Marie Severin (spot illustration)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Major Clagg [aka "Chuckles"] (airplane pilot, death)
Synopsis: Major Clagg was a parachute corps pilot that liked to take real risks when parachuting from a plane, and every feat he accomplished was accompanied by a practical joke of some kind. His crowning gag was to drop a life-sized doll from a plane before he himself parachuted out. Unfortunately, the Major forgot one important thing during that final exploit: to don his parachute!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagShock Suspenstories #12 published June 1995
as Last Laugh! [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Shock Talk

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: The Editors publish a series of letters from readers, who responded to the stories found within issue #10.
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The Kidnapper

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
Penciller(s): Reed Crandall (signed)
Inker(s): Reed Crandall (signed)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Daniel (death); Teresa (Daniel's wife); unnamed son of Daniel and Teresa; Frederick (neighbor of Daniel and Teresa)
Synopsis: A man's baby is kidnapped and when his wife's mental health grows so bad that he desperately attempts to steal another baby, he is beaten to death by a crowd of onlookers for attempting to kidnap...his own son.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #5 [1988] published January 1988
as Kidnapperen [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShock Suspenstories #12 published June 1995
as The Kidnapper [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.
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Fall Guy

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
Penciller(s): Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)
Inker(s): Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Helen (Danny's girl); unnamed diamond merchant; Danny Jansen [aka Brad Gilbert] (villain, hotel clerk, thief)
Synopsis: A hotel clerk steals $100,000 from a diamond merchant and then rents a safety deposit box years in advance under the name 'Brad Gilbert'. He serves 15 years for the theft, then meets with the girl who promised to wait for him because she wants the money. Unable to remember the name he used, the girl berates his inability to recall the name, and he slashes her face with a steak knife. As the police close in on him, he jumps off a roof, clutching at letters of a sign, and, as he lies dying on the pavement, he sees the remaining neon letters spell out 'Brad Gilbert'.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #2/1993 published January 1993
as I fallet [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShock Suspenstories #12 published June 1995
as Fall Guy [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #2 published August 2012
as Fall Guy [Story on Interior Page(s)]black-and-white reprint
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

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