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Issue: Shock Suspenstories #3
Publication Date: January 1981
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Issues: #3 of 3 Issues
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Publisher: FlagRuss Cochran
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Indicia Publisher: Russ Cochran, Publisher
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Volume: 3
Pages: 212
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Content Items: 42 (30 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Russ Cochran
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color cover; mostly black & white interior
Dimensions: 10" x 13"
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Binding: Hardcover
Publishing Format: Collected Edition
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Genres: crime
Feature(s): Shock SuspenStories
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Only Skin-Deep

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: crime
Feature(s): Shock SuspenStories
Synopsis: A man comes out of an car accident with amnesia and plastic surgery to reconstruct extensive facial burns to be met by a woman who claims to be his lover and that the two of them plotted to murder her husband for his insurance money. He travels to a cabin with her and when he slips and bumps his head, his memory returns. He strangles the woman because he recalls that he is not her lover but actually her husband who had overheard their plans to kill him and got the jump on the other man and switched clothes before getting caught in the fire he set in the car's gas tank.
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Blood-Brothers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Shock SuspenStories
Character(s): Dr. Falk (coroner); Ella (Sid's wife); Henry Williams (death); Sarah Williams (Henry's wife, death); Mr. Harley (Henry's employer); Jed Martin; George (a farmer, flashback); Sid (villain)
Synopsis: A bigot finds out that his life was saved as a child by a blood transfusion from a black man.
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-12. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.
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Proposal

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Genres: crime
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Upon Reflection

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Shock SuspenStories
Synopsis: A boxer feels guilty for killing a man in the ring when the man's widow screams at him that he's a 'beast'. He perceives that his hands and face are taking on the appearance of a gorilla but a psychologist tells him that it's all in his mind. He sees a mirror on the street and resolves to look into it. He gaps in horror and then withdraws the pistol he had in his jacket to shoot himself. The store owner is puzzled by the suicide and tells the nearby police officer that he had recently purchased a trick mirror to spruce up business.
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Squeeze Play

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Genres: horror
Feature(s): Shock SuspenStories
Character(s): Cora (Harry's girl, death); Sue; Bea; Nan; Ella; Janet; Jimmy; Arnie; Melvin; Harry [aka Johnny] (villain, death)
Synopsis: A young man gets a girl pregnant and then murders her by throwing her out of a roller coaster car. The other riders, who hear her screams for help, summon the Police. The killer then bolts and buries his incriminating clothes beneath the beach's boardwalk and tries to get a ride home with some girls. They soon cajole him into the surf, despite his protests that he can't swim, but quickly abandon him when they see their boyfriends arrive.
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Disclose Notes: Due to deadline problems, Williamson, who pawned this story over to Frazetta, was asked to finish off a few of the panels.

Williamson credit added by Craig Delich 2013-10-2.

Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-12. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.
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Feature(s): Shock Talk
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The Orphan

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Genres: crime
Feature(s): Shock SuspenStories
Synopsis: A little girl murders her drunken father and frames her uncaring mother for the crime so that she can go live with her nice aunt.
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Pages: 8
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The Whipping

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: crime
Feature(s): Shock SuspenStories
Character(s): Amy (Ed's daughter, death); Ed's wife; Louis Martinez; Vigilante Society [Ed; Willie; Phil; George; other un-named townspeople] (villains)
Synopsis: A community is up in arms when Mexican-Americans move to town and form a vigilante group to deal with them. However, one of the bigots murders his own daughter when she marries a Mexican.
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Blunderer

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You, Murderer

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Genres: crime
Feature(s): Shock SuspenStories
Synopsis: A story told in first person about the victim a hypnotist picks to do his dirty work for a killing after his wife leaves him for another man.
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Pages: 6
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As Ye Sow...

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: crime
Feature(s): Shock SuspenStories
Character(s): Laird Kimball (husband, death); Nora (wife)
Synopsis: A husband hires a contract killer to trail his wife and murder the man she meets. The woman reconsiders her affair, decides to call it off, and returns to her husband. The husband is glad to have her back before he remembers what he's done. He sees the figure in the door and the flash of the gun. The last thing he ever hears is his wife begging him not to die.
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Notes and Comments

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Genres: horror
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Raw Deal

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Genres: crime
Feature(s): Shock SuspenStories
Synopsis: A man cannibalizes his new bride in order to survive being stranded at sea.
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Pages: 8
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The Confidant

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: crime
Feature(s): Shock SuspenStories
Character(s): Jimmy; Jimmy's priest (death); a mob (villains)
Synopsis: A mob beats to death a priest when the man refuses to betray the confession of a killer.
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Disclose Notes: Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-12. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

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Slaughter!

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For Cryin' Out Loud!

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Genres: crime
Feature(s): Shock SuspenStories
Synopsis: A man's conscience bothers him so much after he strangles a woman that he has an uncontrollable urge to confess the deed to anyone in earshot.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-12. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.
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Well Trained

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Genres: crime
Feature(s): Shock SuspenStories
Character(s): Sergeant Tom Gibson (Police detective); Mary Gibson (Tom's wife, death); Bill (Policeman); Mike Ferris (villain, murderer, death)
Synopsis: A detective arrests the man burglar who murdered his wife when she surprised him, and, after a brutal beating that hospitalizes him, continues to hound him in the hospital about the death he will receive in the electric chair. The man fixates on his vengeance to such a great deal that the killer flees the hospital and is struck by a subway car. The detective is tortured by the uncertainty of whether the killer burned by the third rail as he should have or if the train struck him first.
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...My Brother's Keeper

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Genres: adventure, crime
Feature(s): Shock SuspenStories
Character(s): Frank Doran (siamese twin brother of Mark, death); Mr. Doran (Mark and Frank's father, death, in flashback); Mrs. Doran (Mark and Frank's mother, death, in flashback); Gloria Milgram (in flashback); Alice [Benson] Doran (Frank's wife, death, in flashback); Mark Doran (villain, siamese twin of Frank, death)
Synopsis: An evil Siamese twin murders his brother's wife, but the state does not execute him as it would mean the death of the good one. The good one finally commits suicide to halt the evil of the other.
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The Hazing

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Genres: crime
Feature(s): Shock SuspenStories
Synopsis: A college student wants to join a frat so he makes up a story about a professor they don't like being a communist in order to get him fired.
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Slob!

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Genres: crime
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A Kind of Justice

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Feature(s): Shock SuspenStories
Character(s): Shirley Hansen; Helen Hansen (mother); John Hansen (father); Sheriff Paul Judson; Eddie Nichols; Deputy Russ Ford
Synopsis: A mob beat a vagrant to death for the rape of a sixteen year old girl that the town sheriff has been violating.
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The Pen Is Mightier

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Feature(s): Shock SuspenStories
Synopsis: A newspaper columnist murders his gangster friend to get his wife and frames an innocent man for the crime through the power of his words.
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4-Sided Triangle

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Genres: horror
Feature(s): Shock SuspenStories
Synopsis: A farmer tries to molest a retarded girl he keeps to work on the farm as a servant. She tells him that she's got a boyfriend that she sees in the evening. She goes out into the field to the scarecrow. The farmer gets the idea of disguising himself as the scarecrow so he can get what he wants from the girl. The farmer's wife is awakened by the sound of their love-making and goes out to the field with a pitchfork. When the girl tells the wife about her boyfriend, the wife tries to demonstrate to her that it's only straw by repeatedly stabbing the scarecrow with the pitchfork.
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In Character

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Genres: horror
Feature(s): Shock SuspenStories
Synopsis: Boris Karloff murders all of his Hollywood contacts after he has been typecast in pictures.
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Timetable

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Genres: crime
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The Assassin

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Genres: crime
Feature(s): Shock SuspenStories
Character(s): unnamed actor (death); unnamed assassin (villain)
Synopsis: An assassin unknowingly pursues his mark to the backstage of a theater and kills the man just before the curtain rises. It turns out that the assassin has walked in on the opening scene of a play about President William McKinley and the man who assassinated him!
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The Operation

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Genres: crime
Feature(s): Shock SuspenStories
Synopsis: A diamond thief surgeon cuts open his two goons to smuggle diamonds into the country in their bodies. When he gets a big one worth two hundred fifty thousand he tells the men he will operate on both of them, but place the diamond in only one so that they will not be tempted to disappear. The doctor sends them a note saying he will be delayed because he knows that this will play on their greed and they will turn on each other. They kill each other, but the doctor did not place the stone in either of them but himself.
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Cadillac Fever

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Genres: crime
Feature(s): Shock SuspenStories
Character(s): Clyde Wilkes (death); Mrs. Wilkes (death); Mr. Evans; Jeb Wyler; Sheriff Hoyt; Ruthie (villain, Wilke's daughter)
Synopsis: A poor girl knows her father will never be able to afford to buy a Cadillac, so she murders her mother and swears in court that the father did it, so after he is executed he gets his long sought after ride in a Cadillac hearse.
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The Trap

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Genres: crime
Feature(s): Shock SuspenStories
Synopsis: A husband is betrayed by his wife and funeral director when they plot to commit fraud to collect on his life insurance policy for his own murder. They plan to make him appear to be the victim of a mugging and then disappear in South America for a year. When his wife doesn't show with the money, he returns and they have him arrested and he ends up hanging for his own murder.
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A Special Editorial

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Disclose Notes: Appeal to readers to write the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency.
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Blowhard

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In the Bag

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Genres: horror
Feature(s): Shock SuspenStories
Synopsis: A cop kills a man with a bowling ball in a bag thinking it's a head.
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Rundown

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Genres: crime
Feature(s): Shock SuspenStories
Synopsis: A man commits murder attempting to acquire enough money to win back his wife's affections. He doesn't know that she and her lover have already made a plot to run him down. When they manage to hit him with the car, they are pleased to find that his wallet is flush with cash.
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Russ Cochran Presents the Complete EC Library

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