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Issue: Shock SuspenStories Annual #2
Publication Date: January 1994
 
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Publisher: FlagGemstone
Indicia Publisher: Gemstone Publishing
On Sale Date: 12/06/1994
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Pages: 184
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Price: $13.70 CAD
$9.95 USD
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Content Items: 41 (22 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: 167mm x 257mm
Paper Stock: Newsprint
Binding: Squarebound
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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Some/all of 5 other Issues reprinted as/in this Issue:
FlagShock Suspenstories #6 published December 1993
FlagShock Suspenstories #7 published March 1994
FlagShock Suspenstories #8 published June 1994
FlagShock Suspenstories #9 published September 1994
FlagShock Suspenstories #10 published December 1994
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Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)
Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)
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Subject Matter
crime
Shock SuspenStories
Suzy Carson
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Jack Davis (signed)
Jack Davis (signed)
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Just think!!
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On inside front cover.
Ad for EC Annuals.
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Wallace Wood
Wallace Wood
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Subject Matter
crime
Shock SuspenStories
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Dead Right!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Albert B. Feldstein
Jack Kamen
Jack Kamen
Marie Severin
Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
crime
Madame Vorna (fortune teller); J. Flag Marson (prison warden, mention only); Mr. Clayton (Cathy's boss); Cathy Finch Marno (office clerk, waitress, death); Charles Marno (villain, Cathy's husband, death)
A fortune teller predicts to a woman that a man who wants to marry her, but she finds repulsive, is going to inherit twenty-five thousand dollars and die shortly afterward, so she marries him. What the fortune teller doesn't tell her is that she wins the twenty-five thousand dollars as a prize, and when she tries to walk out on the slob, he murders her and inherits her money then dies in the electric chair.
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Under Cover!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Albert B. Feldstein
Wallace Wood
Wallace Wood
Marie Severin
Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
horror
Suzy Carson (death); Ed Fenton (newspaper editor); Sam Masters (newspaperman, death); Grand Master of the Black Vigilante Society (villain); two un-named phony FBI agents (villains); un-named Society members (villains)
When Sam Masters sees a secret society whip a girl to death he tries to contact the F.B.I. before they can catch him.
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Russ Cochran
Bernie Krigstein
Bernie Krigstein
typeset
Subject Matter
Shock Talk
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Letters from D. A. Johnson, Brian Moody, Oat Willy, Andy Terwilleger, Joe MacAvoy, Dan Kroha, Dave Hall.
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Russ Cochran
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Subject Matter
The Crypt-Keeper's Page of Fine Arts
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Prose from Ronald S. Rogowski, Kevin Otten; fan art from George Hopper, John David Alward, Peter A. Stone II.
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Not So Tough!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Albert B. Feldstein
Joe Orlando
Joe Orlando
Marie Severin
Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
science fiction
Lieutenant Robert Arden (Astro-Navigator, later Rocket-Man 3rd Class, death); Sergeant Coogan (ship crewman, death); Seeley (crewman, death); Vice-Commander Philip Forbes (death); Commander Horace Bergman (villain, death)
A space commander who is as tough as nails on his crew is reduced to soft putty in the grip of a large gravitational force.
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Sugar 'N Spice 'N...

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Albert B. Feldstein (co-plot, script); Bill Gaines (co-plot)
Graham Ingels
Graham Ingels
Marie Severin
Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
horror
Johnny (Margaret's brother, death); Margaret (Johnny's sister, death); a witch [aka The Crab] (villain)
A brother and sister lose their ball in the yard of an old woman whom they referred to as "The Old Crab". She eventually gave them the ball back, but warned them to stay away. On Halloween night, the two play a prank on this woman, with fatal results!
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Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Albert B. Feldstein
Albert B. Feldstein
Marie Severin
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Subject Matter
crime
Shock SuspenStories
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Beauty and the Beach!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Albert B. Feldstein
Jack Kamen
Jack Kamen
Marie Severin
Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
crime
Mary Milton (John's wife); Ginger Fullman (Percy's wife, death); Cedric Abels (publicity man); Tom Simmens (advertising director); John Milton (villain, plastics factory worker); Percy Fullman (villain)
Two men are frustrated by the vanity of their attractive wives and the fact that they have offers to do some modeling and to participate in four beauty contests. One encases his wife in plastic while wearing her bathing suit, and the other broils his wife alive under forty sun lamps.
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The Bribe!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Albert B. Feldstein
Wallace Wood
Wallace Wood
Marie Severin
Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
crime
Captain Donaldson; Jean Wilson (Frank's daughter); Ted (Jean's fiancee); Frank Wilson (villain, City Fire Inspector, death); Foster (villain, former City Fire Inspector); Nick Cusco (villain, Blue Swan Club owner)
A fire inspector commits suicide when a fire breaks out in a night club where he took a bribe to overlook code violations. He thinks his daughter was killed in the fire with the other patrons because of a photo taken of her earlier that evening, but what he doesn't know is that she and her fiancee have eloped and didn't stay for the show.
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Russ Cochran
Jack Kamen; Wally Wood
Jack Kamen; Wally Wood
typeset
Subject Matter
Shock Talk
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Letters from John Miller, Warren Standiford, Steven J. Snodgrass, Tom Robb, Robert Tone.
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Russ Cochran
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Subject Matter
The Crypt-Keeper's Page of Fine Arts
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Fan art by Mike Husted, Benoit Trioux, Alpha Raindance, Emily Haddad, Mike Sholtis, Prof. J. B. Lee (with letter).
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Infiltration

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Albert B. Feldstein
Joe Orlando
Joe Orlando
Marie Severin
Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
science fiction
Phil Brady (Flying Saucer Bureau employee, death); Betty Curtiss (villain, a Martian, Shaw's private secretary); Colonel Wayne Shaw (villain, a Martian, Pentagon Flying Saucer Bureau employee)
This story postulates that a small government agency responsible for ferreting out Martian infiltrators is completely infested with Martian infiltrators except for a sole human whom they gun down.
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The Small Assassin!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Ray Bradbury; Albert B. Feldstein (adaptation)
George Evans
George Evans
Marie Severin
Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
horror
Alice (death); David (Alice's husband, death); Dr. Jeffers; David and Alice's un-named baby (villain, eventual death)
A mother is paranoid that her newborn baby is attempting to kill her. She's right. And the doctor, who brought the child into the world, after finding her husband dead as well, decides to take care of matters......in his own way!
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Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Albert B. Feldstein (signed)
Albert B. Feldstein (signed)
Marie Severin
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Subject Matter
crime
Shock SuspenStories
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Piecemeal

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Albert B. Feldstein
Jack Kamen
Jack Kamen
Marie Severin
Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
horror
Sidney (a naturalist); Eric (villain, Sidney's brother, Sally's lover, death); Sally (villain, Sidney's wife, death)
A woman plots to give her naturalist husband an overdose of sleeping pills so that she can be with his younger brother. Before he passes, he acquires a large shark and places it in their outdoor pool in which the wife regularly swims.
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The Assault!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Albert B. Feldstein
Wallace Wood
Wallace Wood
Marie Severin
Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
crime
Mrs. Cartwright (Lucy's mother); Mr. Cartwright (Lucy's father); Hodges (town derelict, death); George (villain, Lucy's lover); Lucy Cartwright (villain, death)
Lucy, who was spending hours away from home on a regular basis, comes home one night and claims that old Hodges kidnapped and raped her, when, in fact, she had been with her lover. However, when the old man is killed and Lucy spurns her lover, he does the only honorable thing in his mind: kill her!
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
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Russ Cochran
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Subject Matter
Shock Talk
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Russ Cochran
Derek Malone; Andrew T. Raub; Kurt Krause; Elliott Kazan
Derek Malone; Andrew T. Raub; Kurt Krause; Elliott Kazan
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Subject Matter
crime, horror
The Crypt-Keeper's Page of Fine Arts
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Letters from Andrew T. Raub (with illustration), Frank X. Mattson III.
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Suicide

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Albert B. Feldstein
Typeset
Subject Matter
crime
un-named old man (janitor, death); Patterson (villain, death)
Patterson had to kill the old janitor after he had broken into a joint in order to keep the man from identifying the criminal. However, Patterson tried to make his crime look like suicide, but the plan backfired when the bullet to the old man's head went into a nearby boiler and scalded the criminal to death!
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The Arrival

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Albert B. Feldstein
Al Williamson
Al Williamson
Marie Severin
Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
science fiction
Grozo (Martian); Zkorl (Martian); Spdork (Martian); un-named Pharoah of Egypt (flashback); Christopher Columbus (flashback); Napoleon Bonaparte (flashback); Thomas Edison (flashback); Orville Wright (flashback); Wilbur Wright (flashback)
Ninety-five thousand years after man destroys himself with nuclear weapons, the evolved rats develop space travel and meet their Martian neighbors.
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Seep No More!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Albert B. Feldstein
George Evans
George Evans
Marie Severin
Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
crime
Mrs. Monahan (Finner's landlady); Irene Lauton (actress, death); two un-named detectives; Mr. Finner (villain, boarder)
Every morning, after a man stabs a woman to death and stashes her body in the attic, he sees a huge bloodstain spreading across his ceiling. He tries to cover it up with paint, but every morning it's there. He even puts a bucket on the floor to collect the blood, and it appears half full to him when the suspicious detectives listen to his confession and tell him there is no stain and no blood in the bucket.
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Cover Reprint (on Interior Page)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Albert B. Feldstein (signed)
Albert B. Feldstein (signed)
Marie Severin
typeset
Subject Matter
horror
Shock SuspenStories
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The October Game

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Ray Bradbury; Albert B. Feldstein (adaptation)
Jack Kamen
Jack Kamen
Marie Severin
Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
horror
Louise Wilder (Mitch's wife); Marion Wilder (Louise and Mitch's daughter, death); Helen; Mitch Wilder (villain)
A madman who hates his wife dismembers his daughter and passes around her body parts to children in a darkened cellar on Halloween.
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Came the Dawn!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Albert B. Feldstein
Wallace Wood
Wallace Wood
Marie Severin
Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
horror
Cathy Maxwell (death); Bob Ames; un-named criminally insane girl (villain)
A man thinks that the girl he has met in the woods may be a dangerous escaped lunatic because she matches the description, but his girlfriend ends up meeting a grim fate as the latest victim of the true escapee.
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Russ Cochran
? (photograph); Reed Crandall
? (photograph); Reed Crandall
typeset
Subject Matter
crime, horror
Shock Talk
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Letters from Mark Jarasitis, John Miller, Warren Standiford, Kevin Koleyan
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Russ Cochran
Jesse Landrum; William Pearson; Jim Bonner
Jesse Landrum; William Pearson; Jim Bonner
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Subject Matter
horror, science fiction
The Crypt-Keeper's Page of Fine Arts
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Letters from Jesse Landrum (with illustration), Frank X. Mattson III, Jim Bonner (with illustration)
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The Meddlers!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Albert B. Feldstein
Joe Orlando
Joe Orlando
Marie Severin
Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
crime
Dr. Conrad Rivers (research chemist, death); Mr. Kearns (groery store owner, death); the widow Jones (death); Jed (death); Enos (death); Martha (death)
The folk of a small town attempt to drive away a doctor who is attempting to create life in a test tube. They smash his equipment while he suffers heart failure. His failed experiments combine in the sewer to create a blob-like living mass which devours the townsfolk.
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Carrion Death

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Albert B. Feldstein
Reed Crandall
Reed Crandall
Marie Severin
Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
horror
un-named State Trooper (death); un-named bank robber (villain, death)
A man handcuffed to policeman is trying to make his way through the desert on foot. He realizes that he has to separate himself from the body but has nothing sharp to cut off the dead man's hand with. He decides to lie down and allow the vultures to strip the corpse, but when he regains consciousness the vultures have already started in on him as well.
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Jack Kamen (signed)
Jack Kamen (signed)
Marie Severin
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Subject Matter
horror
Shock SuspenStories
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The Sacrifice

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Albert B. Feldstein
Jack Kamen
Jack Kamen
Marie Severin
Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
crime
Jonathan Fielding (death); Paul Nichols (villain, witness to Jonathan's murder, blackmailer); Gloria Fielding (villain, Jonathan's wife); James Reed (villain, insurance salesman, death)
A woman manipulates a man into killing her husband by pretending to be in love with him, while she and her lover work out a scheme whereby he claims to be a witness to the killing and blackmails the two of them into letting him sleep with the woman. She carries on this act, pretending to be progressively degraded and begging for salvation, until the dupe finally writes out a confession implicating only himself in the murder and swallows a bottle of poison. She then gleefully regales the dying man the details of the con.
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...So shall ye reap!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Albert B. Feldstein
Wallace Wood
Wallace Wood
Marie Severin
Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
crime
Murray Vorhees; Wilma Vorhees; Kenneth Vorhees (villain, the Vorhee's son, death); Hicky (villain, gang member)
A young man sitting in the electric chair reflects on the events of his youth while his parents are sitting at home do the same. The parents see their past actions in a positive light, but their son sees things from a different perspective.
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Russ Cochran
Joe Orlando
Joe Orlando
?
typeset
Subject Matter
crime
Shock Talk
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Letters from Jim Davis, Warren Standiford.
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Russ Cochran
Sam Rowley; Alex Bebout; ?; Rick Olsen
Sam Rowley; Alex Bebout; ?; Rick Olsen
typeset; Sam Rowley; Rick Olsen
Subject Matter
horror, science fiction
The Crypt-Keeper's Page of Fine Arts
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Operation!

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Albert B. Feldstein
Marie Severin
Marie Severin
Typeset
Subject Matter
crime
un-named anaesthetist; un-named Chief Surgeon; un-named Generalissimo (villain, death); un-named members of the Secret Police (villains)
A dictator is in the operating room, having gas administered as usual, with the doctor ready to operate. The members of the Secret Police were all around the room, making sure the Leader was safe. Suddenly, aman in a bowler hat came in and grabbed the anaestheist, claiming he was trying to kill the Leader, and not realizing that this led the gas being accidently turned on full.....the end result: the Leader blew up!
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Home Run!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Albert B. Feldstein
Joe Orlando
Joe Orlando
Marie Severin
Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
science fiction
Doctor Muller (atomic scientist, absorbed into a Martian); Doctor Caxton (Muller's supervisor); a Martian (villain)
Astronauts are approaching Mars when one of their number admits to them that he is really a Martian who designed the rocket in order to return home after his crashed. The other astronauts think he has lost his mind and attempt to seize his gun, which discharges, killing him. They land on Mars and notice that the body has regained its true form and realize the creature was telling them the truth and that hostile Martians are now waiting outside to absorb their bodies and return to Earth as Martian infiltrators.
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Sweetie-Pie

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Albert B. Feldstein
Reed Crandall
Reed Crandall
Marie Severin
Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
horror
Philip Garson (reporter for the Consolidated Press Service, death); Sally Garson (Philip's wife, death); un-named editor of the Consolidated Press Service; O'Hara (State Patrol officer); Eddie (Consolidated Press reporter); a Ghoul (villain)
Philip, a reporter, is put on a story involving people who have been involved in car wrecks and the bodies displaying evidence of puncture marks on their throats and all blood drained from their bodies. The problem is: not all of the victims were found....just 4 of 16 bodies total. Soon, Philip and his new bride are involved in an accident, and he learns the true fate of all the victims: a ghoul has set up roadside hazards to procure fresh meat.
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Jack Davis (signed)
Jack Davis (signed)
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typeset
Subject Matter
What?!! ...You don't have the complete Crypt?
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On inside back cover.
Ad for The Complete Tales from the Crypt.
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Collect Them All!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Wallace Wood; Frank Frazetta; Harvey Kurtzman; Al Feldstein; Johnny Craig
Wallace Wood; Frank Frazetta; Harvey Kurtzman; Al Feldstein; Johnny Craig
Marie Severin
typeset
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