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Issue: Shock SuspenStories #3
Publication Date: June 1952
 
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagEC
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
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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
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Original Artwork
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Gaines File Copy CGC NM/MT 9.8
 

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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)
Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)
Marie Severin
typeset
Subject Matter
crime
Shock SuspenStories
Reprinting
FlagShock Suspenstories #3 published March 1993
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
in The EC Archives (Gemstone Publishing, 2006 series): Shock SuspenStories Volume 1 (July 2006)
Miscellaneous
1
Colorist credit by Craig Delich.
Shock Talk

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

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
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)
A madman holds a dinner party for five people who have done dirt to him in the past and decapitates them.
Reprinting
FlagShock Suspenstories #3 published March 1993
as Just Desserts! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
in The EC Archives (Gemstone Publishing, 2006 series): Shock SuspenStories Volume 1 (July 2006)
Miscellaneous
8
Last page is full-page splash.

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

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
Sheriff Humphrey Dawson; Jed (Deputy Sheriff); Aubrey Collins (prisoner, death); Phil (Deputy Sheriff); Frederick Moore (District Attorney); Al; Lowell Anderson (laywer); Hank Barker (villain)
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
FlagIskalde Grøss #7/1990 published January 1990
as Den skyldige! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagShock Suspenstories #3 published March 1993
as The Guilty! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #2 published August 2012
as The Guilty! [Story on Interior Page(s)]black-and-white reprint
in The EC Archives (Gemstone Publishing, 2006 series): Shock SuspenStories Volume 1 (July 2006)
Miscellaneous
7
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
Al Feldstein
? (spot illustration)
? (spot illustration)
?
typeset
Subject Matter
crime
unnamed doctor (death); Manny (villain, death); unnamed Chief (villain)
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
in The EC Archives (Gemstone Publishing, 2006 series): Shock SuspenStories Volume 1 (July 2006)
Miscellaneous
1
Jump-Off!

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Al Feldstein
? (spot illustration)
? (spot illustration)
?
typeset
Subject Matter
crime
unnamed Policeman; Ben Troy (villain)
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
FlagShock Suspenstories #3 published March 1993
as Jump-Off! [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
in The EC Archives (Gemstone Publishing, 2006 series): Shock SuspenStories Volume 1 (July 2006)
Miscellaneous
1
The Big Stand-Up!

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
Bart Thompson (TV engineer); Jack (TV sound engineer); Lara
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
FlagShock Suspenstories #3 published March 1993
as The Big Stand-Up! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
in The EC Archives (Gemstone Publishing, 2006 series): Shock SuspenStories Volume 1 (July 2006)
Miscellaneous
6
Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.
Stumped!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
Jack Davis
Jack Davis
Marie Severin
Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
horror
A Horror SuspenStory
Henri Petite (a trapper, death); Marcel Duvall (Henri's fellow trapper); Jaques Soubret (villain, a trapper, death)
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
FlagIskalde Grøss #8/1992 published January 1992
as Avstumpet [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagShock Suspenstories #3 published March 1993
as Stumped! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
in The EC Archives (Gemstone Publishing, 2006 series): Shock SuspenStories Volume 1 (July 2006)
Miscellaneous
7
Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

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