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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): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: crime

Feature(s): Shock SuspenStories

Character(s): Suzy Carson

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Pages: 1

[untitled]

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Penciller(s): Albert B. Feldstein [as Feldstein] (signed)

Inker(s): Albert B. Feldstein [as Feldstein] (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: crime

Feature(s): Shock SuspenStories

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Pages: 1

Shock Talk

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Albert B. Feldstein

Letterer(s): Typeset

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Pages: 1

The Neat Job!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Bill Gaines (co-plot); Albert B. Feldstein (co-plot, script)

Penciller(s): Jack Kamen (signed)

Inker(s): Jack Kamen (signed)

Letterer(s): Jim Wroten

Subject Matter

Genres: crime

Feature(s): A Crime SuspenStory

Character(s): Arthur Berdeen (death); two un-named detectives; Eleanor Berdeen (villain)

Synopsis: An abused housewife married to a neat freak snaps one day and neatly dices the sections of her husband's body into small jars.

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Pages: 8

Notes: Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-1. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

Yellow!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Bill Gaines (co-plot); Albert B. Feldstein (co-plot, script)

Penciller(s): Jack Davis (signed)

Inker(s): Jack Davis (signed)

Letterer(s): Jim Wroten

Subject Matter

Genres: war

Feature(s): A War SuspenStory

Character(s): Sergeant Maurer (radio man); un-named sentry; Captain Millikan ("B" Company Commander); Lieutenant Martin Henderson (the Colonel's son, death); Sergeant Hefner; Colonel Clark Henderson; The Nazis (villains, named only)

Synopsis: A Colonel's son faces the firing squad for cowardice under fire, and is court-martialed and found guilty, sentenced to die by firing squad. Later, the Colonel lies to his boy, telling him that the rifles are loaded with blanks so that his son will go to his death like a man.

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Pages: 7

Notes: Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-1. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

Last Will

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Albert B. Feldstein

Penciller(s): ? (spot illustration)

Inker(s): ? (spot illustration)

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: crime

Character(s): Wendell Canfield (Uncle of Meredith Canfield, death); Meredith Canfield (villain, death)

Synopsis: Discovering that the provisions of the will of his Uncle are going to be changed to cut him off completely, young Canfield, wanting half of his Uncle's estate, decides to kill his Uncle and drag the corpse to the attic. Unfortunately for him, his Uncle's blood leads literally to his downfall and eventual death, but not before he spots a piece of paper indicating that his Uncle was going to leave the entire estate to him!

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Alibi!

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Albert B. Feldstein

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: crime

Character(s): Merrick's un-named partner (prospector, death); Merrick (villain, prospector, death)

Synopsis: Two prospectors, on their way to cash in $2000 worth of gold dust, run afoul of one another, when one of them, Merrick, decides to kill his partner for his gold. But his plan will soon backfire, with tragic results.

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The Monsters!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Bill Gaines (co-plot); Albert B. Feldstein (co-plot, script)

Penciller(s): Joe Orlando [as J. Orlando] (signed)

Inker(s): Joe Orlando [as J. Orlando] (signed)

Letterer(s): Jim Wroten

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Feature(s): A Science-Fiction SuspenStory

Character(s): Hinkel (scientist); Alex (scientist); Herman (scientist); Jennings (stenographer); two mutants

Synopsis: Aliens deposit their mutant births on Earth which, to them, appear as horrible monsters, but appear as regular human beings to the Earth men.

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Pages: 6

Notes: Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-1. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

The Rug!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Ball Gaines (co-plot); Albert B. Feldstein (co-plot, script)

Penciller(s): Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)

Inker(s): Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)

Letterer(s): Jim Wroten

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Feature(s): A Horror SuspenStory

Character(s): Conrad "Connie" Cartwright (wealthy socialite); Reggie (playboy, Cartwright's companion)

Synopsis: Conrad and his friend Reggie head up to the big woods for some relaxation, as well as going hunting for a grizzly bear. However, Reggie voices his loathing for Cartwright's hunting of big game and then making rugs out of them. But Conrad is due for a surprise one night after he bags one grizzly......and then hears another out in the darkness.

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Pages: 7

Notes: Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-1. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

Notes and Comments

Text Article on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Bill Spicer; Bhob Stewart; Bill Mason; John Benson

Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 5

[untitled]

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)

Inker(s): Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: crime

Feature(s): Shock SuspenStories

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Pages: 1

Shock Talk

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Albert B. Feldstein

Letterer(s): Typeset

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Pages: 1

Kickback!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Bill Gaines (co-plot); Albert B. Feldstein (co-plot, script)

Penciller(s): Jack Kamen (signed)

Inker(s): Jack Kamen (signed)

Letterer(s): Jim Wroten

Subject Matter

Genres: crime

Feature(s): A Crime SuspenStory

Character(s): Oscar Higgins (Freda's husband, death); un-named doctor; Rick (Freda's boy friend); Fritz (construction worker); Mr. Davidson (Freda's lawyer); Freda Higgins (villain)

Synopsis: A young woman marries an older man for his money and gets tried of caring for him after a heart attack leaves him paralyzed. She comes up with a plot to stock the cellar with canned goods for three weeks and then pretends to be locked inside while her husband starves to death. It works, and she is cleared of suspicion in her husband's death, but the new man she meets manages to lock himself in the cellar without provisions for several days and is reduced to the same condition as her previous husband.

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Pages: 8

Notes: Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-2. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

Gee, Dad... It's a Daisy!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Al Feldstein (script and plot); William Gaines (plot)

Penciller(s): Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)

Inker(s): Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)

Letterer(s): Jim Wroten

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Feature(s): A Science-Fiction SuspenStory

Character(s): Lieutenant Stanley Linden (Astro-Navigator, death); Lieutenant Arnold Hartley (Rocket-Engineer, death?); Lieutenant Segal (crewman, death); Dickson (radio man, death); Phelps (crew member, death); un-named Commander of the Orion-W (death); Shrdnu (villain, intelligent plant); Vichnu (villain, intelligent plant)

Synopsis: Space explorers land on a planet teeming with intelligent carnivorous plants and fall victim to a demonstration of "She loves me...She loves me not..."

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Pages: 7

Notes: Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich.

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

Time to Kill!

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Albert B. Feldstein

Penciller(s): ? (spot illustration)

Inker(s): ? (spot illustration)

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: crime

Character(s): Edna Small (Charlie's wife); Charlie Small (villain, death)

Synopsis: Charlie had a sure-fire plan to kill the wife he hated so badly: he would plant an explosive in the alarm clock on the bedroom nightstand that would go off at 7am the next morning, then head out on a supposed business trip before that time. What he didn't know was that his ever thoughtful wife packed the alarm clock in his suitcase!

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Hiding Place

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Albert B. Feldstein

Letterer(s): Typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: crime

Character(s): Mike Kleatt (villain, jewel thief, death)

Synopsis: Mike had succeeded in snatching the quarter-of-a-million dollar Inca Crown Jewels from the museum and hiding them in a secret pocket of his jacket lining. He made his way through the various rooms of the museum and was in the European Torture Device room when he heard sirens and an announcement that thew jewels were stolen and all patrons were to be searched. However, he picks the wrong place to hide!

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The Patriots!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Al Feldstein (script and plot); William Gaines (plot)

Penciller(s): Jack Davis (signed)

Inker(s): Jack Davis (signed)

Letterer(s): Jim Wroten

Subject Matter

Genres: war

Feature(s): A Shock SuspenStory

Character(s): Freddy (death); Freddy's un-named wife; Charlie (crowd on-looker)

Synopsis: A mob at a military parade to honor wounded Korean War soldiers, whipped up by anti-communist sentiment, beats to death a blind war vet when he doesn't doff his hat to the flag during the parade.

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Pages: 6

Notes: Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich.

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

Cover story.

Halloween!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Al Feldstein (script and plot); William Gaines (plot)

Penciller(s): Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)

Inker(s): Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)

Letterer(s): Jim Wroten

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Feature(s): A Horror SuspenStory

Character(s): Ann Dennis (matron at Briarwood); Tommy (orphan); Mary (orphan); Eban Critchit (villain, Master of Briarwood, death)

Synopsis: On Halloween night, when a new matron at an orphanage discovers the manager has been stealing the state's allotment for the children and threatens to strangle her to keep her quiet, the children take matters into their own hands and use his hollowed-out head as a pumpkin.

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Pages: 7

Notes: Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich.

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

[untitled]

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Penciller(s): Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)

Inker(s): Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: crime

Feature(s): Shock SuspenStories

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Pages: 1

Shock Talk

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Albert B. Feldstein

Letterer(s): Typeset

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Pages: 1

Just Desserts!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Bill Gaines (co-plot); Albert B. Feldstein (co-plot, script)

Penciller(s): Jack Kamen (signed)

Inker(s): Jack Kamen (signed)

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 un-named 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.

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Pages: 8

Notes: Last page is full-page splash.

Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-2. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

The Guilty!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Bill Gaines (co-plot); Albert B. Feldstein (co-plot, script)

Penciller(s): Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)

Inker(s): Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)

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.

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Pages: 7

Notes: Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-2. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

Cover story.

Doc

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Albert B. Feldstein

Penciller(s): ? (spot illustration)

Inker(s): ? (spot illustration)

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: crime

Character(s): un-named doctor (death); Manny (vllain, death); un-named 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!

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Jump-Off!

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Albert B. Feldstein

Penciller(s): ? (spot illustration)

Inker(s): ? (spot illustration)

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: crime

Character(s): un-named 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!

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The Big Stand-Up!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Bill Gaines (co-plot); Albert B. Feldstein (co-plot, script)

Penciller(s): Joe Orlando (signed)

Inker(s): Joe Orlando (signed)

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!

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Pages: 6

Notes: Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-2. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

Stumped!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Bill Gaines (co-plot); Albert B. Feldstein (co-plot, script)

Penciller(s): Jack Davis

Inker(s): Jack Davis

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.

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Pages: 7

Notes: Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-2. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

[untitled]

Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Penciller(s): Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)

Inker(s): Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: crime

Feature(s): Shock SuspenStories

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Pages: 1

Shock Talk

Letters Page on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): Albert B. Feldstein

Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 1

Notes: Contains letters from readers as well as editorial hype.

Split Second!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Bill Gaines (co-plot); Albert B. Feldstein (co-plot, script)

Penciller(s): Jack Kamen (signed)

Inker(s): Jack Kamen (signed)

Letterer(s): Jim Wroten

Subject Matter

Genres: crime

Feature(s): A Crime SuspenStory

Character(s): Jack (lumberjack); Fuz (lumberjack); Ted Morgan (lumberjack); Steve Dixon (villain, lumberjack boss, death); Liz (Silver Dollar Saloon singer, Steve's wife, eventual death)

Synopsis: When a lumberjack boss blinds a young worker by hitting him in the head with a rock, the other lumberjacks gag him and stuff him in a hollow log for the blind boy to practice chopping through......and Liz, his wife, is next!

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Pages: 8

Notes: Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-2. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

Confession

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Bill Gaines (co-plot); Albert B. Feldstein (co-plot, script)

Penciller(s): Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)

Inker(s): Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)

Letterer(s): Jim Wroten

Subject Matter

Genres: crime

Feature(s): A Shock SuspenStory

Character(s): Arthur Keenan; Flagg (Policeman); Riley (Policeman); Mason (Policeman); Detective Doyle; Charlie (Police switchboard operator); Mrs. Staley (Lieutenant Staley's wife, death); Lieutenant Staley (villain, Policeman)

Synopsis: Police Lieutenant Staley murders his wife and then beats a confession out of an innocent by-stander.

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Pages: 7

Notes: Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-2. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

Last Ride!

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Albert B. Feldstein

Penciller(s): ? (spot illustration)

Inker(s): ? (spot illustration)

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: crime

Character(s): un-named woman (wife of un-named man, death); un-named man (villain, death)

Synopsis: A man decides on a novel way of killing his wife because she is seeking a divorce, which would cut him off from her fortune. As she boarded an elevator on the penthouse level, the man stepped into the shaft through an emergency door, and cut the last cable to the elevator, which would send the car plunging down at him. Unfortunately for him, when that cable was cut, the system automatically shut every door leading to the elevator shaft.....and all he could do was watch the plunging car coming toward him!

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Salvation!

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Albert B. Feldstein

Penciller(s): ? (spot illustration)

Inker(s): ? (spot illustration)

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: crime

Character(s): un-named Police Railroad Detective; un-named tramp; Bancroft (villain)

Synopsis: Bancroft hops a freight train after robbing a stranded motorist to facilitate his flight from the minions of the law, but he hadn't counted on the railroad dick checking every car once the train was moving. It was suicide to jump from the train and, if he was caught, it meant ten years behind bars. Then he spotted a tramp riding the rails and he decided to change clothing with him.....what he didn't know was that this tramp had just killed someone in a nearby town.....and the clothes were covered with the victim's blood!

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Strictly Business!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Bill Gaines (co-plot); Albert B. Feldstein (co-plot, script)

Penciller(s): Joe Orlando [as Orlando] (signed)

Inker(s): Joe Orlando [as Orlando] (signed)

Letterer(s): Jim Wroten

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Feature(s): A Science-Fiction SuspenStory

Character(s): Dianne Masters (Alec's wife); un-named Senator; Alec Craven (a robot)

Synopsis: In the 21st Century, marriage licenses must be renewed every three years, so a man pays a woman thirty thousand dollars to be his wife for three years, but both agree on no sex. She agrees, and over time, falls in love with him. At the end of the three years she tells him that she'll claim she's expecting a child and the license will automatically renew. But he tells her that she could not be expecting a child and reveals he is a robot, and that he only wanted a wife during the past three years for crucial business negotiation appearances.

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Pages: 6

Notes: Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-2. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

Uppercut!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Bill Gaines (co-plot); Albert B. Feldstein (co-plot, script)

Penciller(s): Jack Davis (signed)

Inker(s): Jack Davis (signed)

Letterer(s): Jim Wroten

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Feature(s): A Horror SuspenStory

Character(s): Herby Dixon (boxer); Eddie (boxer); Tom Murphy (boxer); Jerry Colby (boxer, death); Ernie Maxwell (boxer); Max (fight scheduler); Lou (bookie); Joe Wiley (fight promoter, death); Harry (forensic pathologist)

Synopsis: A fight promoter tells the boys he sends into the ring that they've got to have guts. One of the washed-up cases steals a drug from his brother in med school that will make a person look dead, but still be alive, so that the promoter will be buried alive. However, when the promoter comes to, he has not been buried but finds himself in a Police morgue, and he briefly looks down to see that his guts have been removed during the autopsy.

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Pages: 7

Notes: Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-2. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

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Credits

Penciller(s): Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)

Inker(s): Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: crime

Feature(s): Shock SuspenStories

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Pages: 1

Well-Traveled!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Bill Gaines (co-plot); Albert B. Feldstein (co-plot, script)

Penciller(s): Jack Kamen (signed)

Inker(s): Jack Kamen (signed)

Letterer(s): Jim Wroten

Subject Matter

Genres: crime

Feature(s): A Crime SuspenStory

Character(s): Jack Bailey (Horace's neighbor); Philip Bailey (Jack's son); Bess Weems (Horace's wife, death); Horace Weems (villain)

Synopsis: A henpecked husband dis-members his wife after she refuses to let him spend money on toy trains once too often.

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Pages: 8

Notes: Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-5. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

Hate!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Albert B. Feldstein

Penciller(s): Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)

Inker(s): Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)

Letterer(s): Jim Wroten

Subject Matter

Genres: crime

Feature(s): A Shock SuspenStory

Character(s): Dave Gold (death); Ethel Gold (Dave's wife, death); Mary Smith (John's wife); Mrs. White (John's adoptive mother); John Smith's un-named son; John Smith (villain, reforms); Charlie (villain); Ed (villain)

Synopsis: A man goes along with a plan to set fire to a Jewish couple's home until his mother tells him he's adopted and that his natural parents were Jews.

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Pages: 7

Notes: Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-5. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

Justice

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Albert B. Feldstein

Penciller(s): ? (spot illustration)

Inker(s): ? (spot illustration)

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: crime

Character(s): Sheriff Ben Strang; Ben's un-named son

Synopsis: Cursed and reviled, Sheriff Strang's harsh and ruthless form of justice made enemies of him by many of Blind Sam's citizens. Particularly repugnant was the justice meted out this evening to a young boy.....at the end of a rope. That boy: the Sheriff's own son!

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[untitled]

Letters Page on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Penciller(s): ? (spot illustration)

Inker(s): ? (spot illustration)

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Shock Talk

Synopsis: Printing of letters written to the editor in regards to the story, "The Guilty", which appeared in Shock SuspenStories #3.

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Pages: 1

What Fur?

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Albert B. Feldstein

Penciller(s): Joe Orlando (signed)

Inker(s): Joe Orlando (signed)

Letterer(s): Jim Wroten

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Feature(s): A Science-Fiction SuspenStory

Character(s): Emile Le Doux (a furrier); Henri (the furrier's assistant, death); Captain George Limpfort (rocket transporter); Emma Limpfort (George's wife)

Synopsis: Captain Limpfort is hired by a furrier to fly him to a planet in another Solar System in order for the furrier to trap and skin skunks, which he makes into fashion apparel. They soon learn that the planet is inhabited by aliens who skin humans for their pelts!

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Pages: 6

Notes: Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-5. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

Cold Cuts!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Albert B. Feldstein

Penciller(s): Jack Davis (signed)

Inker(s): Jack Davis (signed)

Letterer(s): Jim Wroten

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Feature(s): A Horror SuspenStory

Character(s): Helen Benson (Victor's wife, death); Charlie (real estate agent); Mr. Johnson; Mrs. Johnson; Ed (Victor's partner); Victor Benson (villain)

Synopsis: A man murders his wife and cuts up her body in the tub to store in the meat locker. His plans to dispose of the remains are continually frustrated until his friend invites him for dinner, and, after he's taken a bite, reveals to him that he borrowed the meat from the locker.

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Pages: 7

Notes: Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-5. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

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Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Penciller(s): Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)

Inker(s): Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: crime

Feature(s): Shock SuspenStories

Character(s): Suzy Carson

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Pages: 1

Dead Right!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Albert B. Feldstein

Penciller(s): Jack Kamen [as Kamen] (signed)

Inker(s): Jack Kamen [as Kamen] (signed)

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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Pages: 8

Notes: Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-7. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

Under Cover!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Albert B. Feldstein

Penciller(s): Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)

Inker(s): Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)

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 un-named phony FBI agents (villains); un-named 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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Pages: 7

Notes: Cover story.

Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-7. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

The Bend!

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Albert B. Feldstein

Penciller(s): Marie Severin (spot illustration)

Inker(s): Marie Severin (spot illustration)

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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Letters Page on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Shock Talk

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Pages: 1

Notes: Letters to the Editors page in which readers wrote in their comments about the story, "Confession," which appeared in issue #4.

Not So Tough!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Albert B. Feldstein

Penciller(s): Joe Orlando (signed)

Inker(s): Joe Orlando (signed)

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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Pages: 6

Notes: Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-7. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

Sugar 'N Spice 'N...

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Bill Gaines (co-plot); Albert B. Feldstein (co-plot, script)

Penciller(s): Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)

Inker(s): Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)

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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Pages: 7

Notes: Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-7. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

Script credit revision by Craig Delich, formerly Albert B. Feldstein.

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

Russ Cochran Presents the Complete EC Library

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 1

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Illustration on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Penciller(s): Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)

Inker(s): Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: crime

Feature(s): Shock SuspenStories

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Notes: On back cover.