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Issue: Shock SuspenStories #7
Publication Date: February 1953
 
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Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagEC
Indicia Publisher: Tiny Tot Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/25/1952
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 8 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Al Feldstein; William M. Gaines (managing editor)
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 B387348.
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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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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
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/MT 9.8
 

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

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Albert B. Feldstein [as Feldstein] (signed)
Albert B. Feldstein [as Feldstein] (signed)
Marie Severin
typeset
Subject Matter
crime
Shock SuspenStories
Reprinting
FlagShock Suspenstories #7 published March 1994
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
 
Miscellaneous
1
Beauty And The Beach!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script))
Jack Kamen (signed)
Jack Kamen (signed)
Marie Severin
Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
crime
A Crime SuspenStory
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.
Reprinting
FlagIskalde Grøss #1/1994 published January 1994
as Skjønnheten i sanden [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagShock Suspenstories #7 published March 1994
as Beauty and the Beach! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
8
Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.
The Bribe!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)
Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)
Marie Severin
Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
crime
A Shock SuspenStory
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.
Reprinting
FlagIskalde Grøss #3/1989 published January 1989
as Bestikkelsen! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagShock Suspenstories #7 published March 1994
as The Bribe! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #2 published August 2012
as The Bribe! [Story on Interior Page(s)]black-and-white reprint
 
Miscellaneous
7
Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.
The Mountain Jackal

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Al Feldstein
? (spot illustration)
? (spot illustration)
?
typeset
Subject Matter
crime
Jenga Shah (a bhisti); Tajik Kabal (villain, Afghan chieftan, death)
For four unfettered years, Chieftan Tajik Kabal has sacked village after village, leaving behind the bodies of headless corpses, after which he planned to build a huge fortress in which to store his ill-gotten gain. Unfortunately for him, he chose the site for the fortress near the location of a British fort......a battled ensued and the chieftan was captured and thrown into a dungeon. But his plan to escape his confines meets with a "cutting" conclusion!
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Al Feldstein
typeset
Subject Matter
Shock Talk
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
0.67
The Editors present the facts to readers that, with over 500 comic titles appearing on newsstands each month, many companies wre losing lots of money, some folding up shop, others dropping titles. Readers were asked to keep up their support of their favorite EC titles, else the same fate would befall EC.
[untitled]

Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Frank D. Lee
typeset
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
0.33
Infiltration

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
Joe Orlando (signed)
Joe Orlando (signed)
Marie Severin
Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
science fiction
A Science-Fiction SuspenStory
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.
Reprinting
FlagShock Suspenstories #7 published March 1994
as Infiltration [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
6
Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.
The Small Assassin!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Ray Bradbury; Al Feldstein (adaptation)
George Evans
George Evans
Marie Severin
Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
horror
A Horror SuspenStory
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!
Reprinting
FlagThe Autumn People #U2141 published October 1965
as The Small Assassin [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagIskalde Grøss #6/1993 published January 1993
as Den lille morder! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagShock Suspenstories #7 published March 1994
as The Small Assassin! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
7
Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

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