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Issue: Shock SuspenStories #17
Publication Date: October 1954
 
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagEC
Indicia Publisher: Tiny Tot Comics, Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/15/1954
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 6 (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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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 9.4
 

Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
?
George Evans
George Evans
Marie Severin
?
Subject Matter
horror
Reprinting
FlagShock Suspenstories #17 published September 1996
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
 
Miscellaneous
1
Colorist credit by Craig Delich.
4-Sided Triangle

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Carl Wessler
Jack Kamen [as Kamen] (signed)
Jack Kamen [as Kamen] (signed)
Marie Severin
Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
horror
Abner Hester (farmer, death); Hester Yates (Abner's wife); Annie (retarded servant of the Hesters)
A farmer tries to molest a retarded girl he keeps to work on the farm as a servant. She tells him that she's got a boyfriend that she sees in the evening. She goes out into the field to the scarecrow. The farmer gets the idea of disguising himself as the scarecrow so he can get what he wants from the girl. The farmer's wife is awakened by the sound of their love-making and goes out to the field with a pitchfork. When the girl tells the wife about her boyfriend, the wife tries to demonstrate to her that it's only straw by repeatedly stabbing the scarecrow with the pitchfork.
Reprinting
FlagIskalde Grøss #4/1993 published January 1993
as 4-sidet trekant [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagShock Suspenstories #17 published September 1996
as 4-Sided Triangle [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
8
In Character

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Al Feldstein
Reed Crandall [as R. Crandall] (signed)
Reed Crandall [as R. Crandall] (signed)
Marie Severin
Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
horror
Lawrence B. Maynor (President of Magnus Pictures, death); Don Muller (Bela's agent, death); Marcel Duvall (make-up man, death); Sidney Chase (Treasurer of Magnus Pictures, death); Bela Kardiff (villain, actor)
Bela Kardiff murders all of his Hollywood contacts at a dinner honoring him after he has been typecast in horror pictures and then the company decides to dump him because they are not going to do horror pictures any longer.
Reprinting
FlagIskalde Grøss #1/1994 published January 1994
as Typisk nok! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagShock Suspenstories #17 published September 1996
as In Character [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
7
Some of the story is told in flashback.
Timetable

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Al Feldstein
? (masthead)
typeset
Subject Matter
crime
Sylvia Gardent (Mr. Gardent's wife, death); Mr. Gardent's unnamed secretary; Mr. Gardent (death)
Mr. Gardent just had a terrible argument with his wife, so he decided to play a prank on her. Knowing that it was her bridge night and she was away from the house, he snuck in, wrote a phony suicide note and took a bunch of sleeping pills, confident in the fact that she would come home, find him, and get him rushed to the hospital in order to save his life. What he did not know was that Sylvia, upset over the argument, skipped her bridge night out, took 20 of the sleeping pills, wrote a note and was already laying dead in the adjoining room.
Reprinting
FlagShock Suspenstories #17 published September 1996
as Timetable [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
1
The Assassin

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Carl Wessler
George Evans [as Geo. Evans] (signed)
George Evans [as Geo. Evans] (signed)
Marie Severin
Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
crime
unnamed actor (death); unnamed assassin (villain)
An assassin unknowingly pursues his mark to the backstage of a theater and kills the man just before the curtain rises. It turns out that the assassin has walked in on the opening scene of a play about President William McKinley and the man who assassinated him!
Reprinting
FlagEC Horror Library of the 1950's #[nn] published January 1970
as The Assassin [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagIskalde Grøss #5/1993 published January 1993
as Morderen [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagShock Suspenstories #17 published September 1996
as The Assassin [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
6
The Operation

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Al Feldstein
Joe Orlando (signed)
Joe Orlando (signed)
Marie Severin
Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
crime
Allie (villain, smuggler, death); Bimmy (villain, smuggler, death); Doc Slater (villain, doctor, death)
A diamond thief surgeon cuts open his two goons to smuggle diamonds into the country in their bodies. When he gets a big one worth $250,000 he tells the men he will operate on both of them, but place the diamond in only one so that they will not be tempted to disappear. The doctor sends them a note saying he will be delayed because he knows that this will play on their greed and they will turn on each other. They kill each other, but the doctor did not place the stone in either of them but himself. But the diamond was paste and it quickly caused the doctor's death due to poisoning.
Reprinting
FlagIskalde Grøss #7/1990 published January 1990
as Operasjonen [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagShock Suspenstories #17 published September 1996
as The Operation [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
7

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