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Issue: Shock SuspenStories #6
Publication Date: December 1952
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Issues: #6 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: 09/25/1952
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, 1952, page 224, registration number B377925.
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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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[untitled]

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
Character(s): Suzy Carson
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In Content Item: FlagShock Suspenstories #6 published December 1993
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Colorist credit by Craig Delich.
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Dead Right!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
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
Feature(s): A Crime SuspenStory
Character(s): 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)
Synopsis: 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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In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #3/1993 published January 1993
as Sannspådd! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShock Suspenstories #6 published December 1993
as Dead Right! [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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Under Cover!

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): Suzy Carson (death); Ed Fenton (newspaper editor); Sam Masters (newspaperman, death); Grand Master of the Black Vigilante Society (villain); two unnamed phony FBI agents (villains); unnamed Society members (villains)
Synopsis: 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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In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #3/1991 published January 1991
as Dekkoperasjoner [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShock Suspenstories #6 published December 1993
as Under Cover! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEC Sampler - Free Comic Book Day #[nn] published May 2008
as Under Cover! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #2 published August 2012
as Under Cover! [Story on Interior Page(s)]black-and-white reprint
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Cover story.

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

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): "Busher" Benton (villain, eventual death); five Apache Indians (villains)
Synopsis: "Busher" Benton had been getting rich off the gold he had stolen from hard-working prospectors, when he suddenly saw five Apaches coming at him. He took off on foot and was running the twelve miles to nearby Fort Rush, knowing that if the Indians captured him, he would be tortured and then burned head down on a stake! He made it to the Fort, but was in for a surprise.
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Shock Talk
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters to the Editors page in which readers wrote in their comments about the story, "Confession," which appeared in issue #4. Letters printed from Clinton Day, Jim Turner, Louise O'Brien, Everett Markholme, George Cotter, Arthur Crowley, Carole Flagg, Charles Laquidora, George Snowden III, and PFC Ronald B. Craig.
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Not So Tough!

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): 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)
Synopsis: 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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In Content Item: FlagShock Suspenstories #6 published December 1993
as Not So Tough! [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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Sugar 'N Spice 'N...

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
Penciller(s): Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)
Inker(s): Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): A Horror SuspenStory
Character(s): Johnny (Margaret's brother, death); Margaret (Johnny's sister, death); a witch [aka The Crab] (villain)
Synopsis: 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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In Content Item: FlagShock Suspenstories #6 published December 1993
as Sugar 'N Spice 'N... [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

Story is a contemporary re-telloing of the story, "Hansel and Gretel".

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