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Issue: Shock SuspenStories #16
Publication Date: August 1954
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Issues: #16 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: 06/15/1954
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 7 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Albert B. Feldstein
Disclose Notes: On-sale date is publication date in Library of Congress copyright record (registered in 1979).
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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
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Gaines File Copy CGC NM+ 9.6
 
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ORIGINAL TITLE PAGE ART
From the private collection of James Halperin
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): George Evans [as G Evans] (signed)
Inker(s): George Evans [as G Evans] (signed)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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In Content Item: FlagShock Suspenstories #16 published June 1996
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Colorist credit by Craig Delich.
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Are You a Red Dupe?

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Lyle Stuart; Bill Gaines
Penciller(s): Jack Davis
Inker(s): Jack Davis
Colorist(s): Marie Severin ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, opinion
Character(s): Melvin Blizunken
Synopsis: This editorial illustrated page purports that the Communists are the ones trying to destroy the comic magazine industry, citing the Soviet "Daily Worker" newspaper and Dr. Frederick Wertham.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.

Tongue in cheek editorial parody in an attempt to link efforts to destroy comics to Communists.

Writer credits from Lyle Stuart himself, during an interview by Bill Spicer in Squa Tront (Fantagraphics, 2002 series) #12 (2007); and from Grant Geissman's book, Tales of Terror!: The EC Companion (Fantagraphics, 2000 series), who lists the writer as Bill Gaines; as well as Frank Jacobs' The MAD World of William M. Gaines (Carol Publishing Group, 1973 series) notes that Gaines worked with Stuart on the piece.
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...My Brother's Keeper

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler
Penciller(s): George Evans (signed)
Inker(s): George Evans (signed)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, crime
Character(s): Frank Doran (Siamese twin brother of Mark, death); Mr. Doran (Mark and Frank's father, death, in flashback); Mrs. Doran (Mark and Frank's mother, death, in flashback); Gloria Milgram (in flashback); Alice [Benson] Doran (Frank's wife, death, in flashback); Mark Doran (villain, Siamese twin of Frank, death)
Synopsis: An evil Siamese twin murders his brother's wife, but the state does not execute him as it would mean the death of the good one. The good one finally commits suicide to halt the evil of the other.
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In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #5/1993 published January 1993
as Min brors vokter [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShock Suspenstories #16 published June 1996
as ...My Brother's Keeper [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Most of the story is told in flashback.
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The Hazing

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler
Penciller(s): Joe Orlando [as Orlando] (signed)
Inker(s): Joe Orlando [as Orlando] (signed)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: drama
Character(s): Warren Fuller (student wanting to join a fraternity); Selma Fuller Millstone (Warren's sister); Anders (student); Phil (student); Professor John Millstone; Dean Camby
Synopsis: A college student, Warren Fuller, wants to join a frat so he makes up a story about a professor they don't like being a communist in order to get him fired. But the whole plan backfires when Warren's sister marries that professor.
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In Content Item: FlagShock Suspenstories #16 published June 1996
as The Hazing [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 7
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Slob!

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Feldstein
Colorist(s): ? (masthead)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Sikora (custodian, death); Mr. Herndon (villain, landlord)
Synopsis: Herndon would not let up on the custodian of his building, whose personal neatness was not very good, and all Sikora could hear was the word "slob" being thrown at him by Herndon. Sikora had had enough and lunged at the man......but Herndon fought back and killed the custodian, and shoved his body into the basement furnace to eliminate any evidence of the crime. But that backfired on the landlord.......the furnace was too filthy and clogged up to sustain a fire!
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In Content Item: FlagShock Suspenstories #18 published December 1996
as Slob! [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
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A Kind of Justice

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler
Penciller(s): Reed Crandall
Inker(s): Reed Crandall
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Shirley Hansen; Helen Hansen (mother); John Hansen (father); Eddie Nichols (vagrant, death); Sheriff Paul Judson (villain); Deputy Russ Ford (villain)
Synopsis: A mob beats a vagrant to death for the rape of a sixteen year old girl that the town sheriff has been violating.
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In Content Item: FlagEC Horror Library of the 1950's #[nn] published January 1970
as A Kind of Justice [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #5 [1988] published January 1988
as En slags rettferdighet [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShock Suspenstories #16 published June 1996
as A Kind of Justice [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 8
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The Pen Is Mightier

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Carl Wessler
Penciller(s): Jack Kamen [as Kamen] (signed)
Inker(s): Jack Kamen [as Kamen] (signed)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Mr. King (grocer); Johnny Harris (newspaper reporter); unnamed newspaper editor; Kitty (Zach's girl); Eddie Mahler (villain, death); Manny Vaughn (villain, death); Zach Hamlin (villain); Neddo Wallace (villain); Inez (villain, former fiance of Manny)
Synopsis: A newspaper columnist murders his gangster friend to get his wife and frames an innocent man for the crime through the power of his words.
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In Content Item: FlagShock Suspenstories #16 published June 1996
as The Pen is Mightier [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 7

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