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Issue: Shock SuspenStories #3
Publication Date: June 1952
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Issues: #3 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: 03/25/1952
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 8 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Albert B. Feldstein
Disclose Notes: On sale date as given in the copyright application as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, 1952, page 224, registration number B347662.
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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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Original Artwork
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Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Gaines File Copy CGC NM/MT 9.8
 
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)
Inker(s): Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Shock SuspenStories
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagShock Suspenstories #3 published March 1993
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes: in The EC Archives (Gemstone Publishing, 2006 series): Shock SuspenStories Volume 1 (July 2006)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Colorist credit by Craig Delich.
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Shock Talk

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Feldstein
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: in The EC Archives (Gemstone Publishing, 2006 series): Shock SuspenStories Volume 1 (July 2006)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Found on the inside front cover.
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Just Desserts!

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
Feature(s): A Crime SuspenStory
Character(s): Jimmy (Bernard's son, death); Cora (Bernard's wife, death); Irving (Bernard's best friend, death); Clorissa (Bernard's Aunt, death); Julius (Bernard's business partner, death); Fanny (a nurse, death); Fanny's unnamed boy friend); Joe (Julius' employee); Bernard (villain)
Synopsis: A madman holds a dinner party for five people who have done dirt to him in the past and decapitates them.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagShock Suspenstories #3 published March 1993
as Just Desserts! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes: in The EC Archives (Gemstone Publishing, 2006 series): Shock SuspenStories Volume 1 (July 2006)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Last page is full-page splash.

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

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
Feature(s): A Shock SuspenStory
Character(s): Sheriff Humphrey Dawson; Jed (Deputy Sheriff); Aubrey Collins (prisoner, death); Phil (Deputy Sheriff); Frederick Moore (District Attorney); Al; Lowell Anderson (laywer); Hank Barker (villain)
Synopsis: A bigot sheriff arrests a black man for the death of a white woman based on the testimony of a man who turns out to be the killer. The sheriff executes the suspect in the woods and claims he made a break for it.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #7/1990 published January 1990
as Den skyldige! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShock Suspenstories #3 published March 1993
as The Guilty! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #2 published August 2012
as The Guilty! [Story on Interior Page(s)]black-and-white reprint
Reprint Notes: in The EC Archives (Gemstone Publishing, 2006 series): Shock SuspenStories Volume 1 (July 2006)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

Cover story.
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Doc

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Feldstein
Penciller(s): ? (spot illustration)
Inker(s): ? (spot illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): unnamed doctor (death); Manny (villain, death); unnamed Chief (villain)
Synopsis: The Chief was having serious stomach issues with his appendix, so he was taken by his buddy to see an old quack doctor, who supposedly fixed the crook up. And fixed him he did.......although the doc was murdered to shut him up, the doc had the last laugh, when, at 10pm, the time-bomb the doc had sewn into the Chief's belly exploded!
Reprinting
Reprint Notes: in The EC Archives (Gemstone Publishing, 2006 series): Shock SuspenStories Volume 1 (July 2006)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Jump-Off!

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Feldstein
Penciller(s): ? (spot illustration)
Inker(s): ? (spot illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): unnamed Policeman; Ben Troy (villain)
Synopsis: Public Enemy Ben Troy, battered though he was, manages to get out of bed, while under guard outside his hospital room, and make his way to the window in order to effect an escape. Imagine his surprise when he jumps out the window thinking he is on the 2nd Floor and discovers he was actually in Room 819!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagShock Suspenstories #3 published March 1993
as Jump-Off! [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes: in The EC Archives (Gemstone Publishing, 2006 series): Shock SuspenStories Volume 1 (July 2006)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Big Stand-Up!

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: science fiction
Feature(s): A Science-Fiction SuspenStory
Character(s): Bart Thompson (TV engineer); Jack (TV sound engineer); Lara
Synopsis: A broadcast technician falls in love with a woman whose transmission he picks up from another planet, some eighty light years away. But when she comes to him in a rocketship, Bart discovers that she stands about 200 feet high!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagShock Suspenstories #3 published March 1993
as The Big Stand-Up! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes: in The EC Archives (Gemstone Publishing, 2006 series): Shock SuspenStories Volume 1 (July 2006)
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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Stumped!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
Penciller(s): Jack Davis
Inker(s): Jack Davis
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): A Horror SuspenStory
Character(s): Henri Petite (a trapper, death); Marcel Duvall (Henri's fellow trapper); Jaques Soubret (villain, a trapper, death)
Synopsis: A trapper moves a rival's trap hoping the man will step in it and die so that he can take over his territory. He does step in it, but his desire for revenge is so strong that he chews through his own ankle in order to kill the guilty party before he expires.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #8/1992 published January 1992
as Avstumpet [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShock Suspenstories #3 published March 1993
as Stumped! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes: in The EC Archives (Gemstone Publishing, 2006 series): Shock SuspenStories Volume 1 (July 2006)
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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