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Issue: Shock SuspenStories #5
Publication Date: October 1952
 
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagEC
Indicia Publisher: Tiny Tot Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 07/17/1952
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 B367758.
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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
Indicia on this Page
Gaines File Copy CGC NM/MT 9.8
 

Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
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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
FlagIskalde Grøss #7/1990 published January 1990
as Grimme krimgåter [Illustration on Cover, Front]
FlagShock Suspenstories #5 published September 1993
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
 
Miscellaneous
1
Colorist credit by Craig Delich.
Well-Traveled!

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
Jack Bailey (Horace's neighbor); Philip Bailey (Jack's son); Bess Weems (Horace's wife, death); Horace Weems (villain)
A henpecked husband dis-members his wife after she refuses to let him spend money on toy trains once too often.
Reprinting
FlagShock Suspenstories #5 published September 1993
as Well-Traveled! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
8
Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.
Hate!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Bill Gaines (co-ploy); 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
Dave Gold (death); Ethel Gold (Dave's wife, death); Mary Smith (John's wife); Mrs. White (John's adoptive mother); John Smith's unnamed son; John Smith (villain, reforms); Charlie (villain); Ed (villain)
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.
Reprinting
FlagIskalde Grøss #5 [1988] published January 1988
as Hat! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagShock Suspenstories #5 published September 1993
as Hate! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #2 published August 2012
as Hate! [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.
Justice

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Al Feldstein
? (spot illustration)
? (spot illustration)
?
typeset
Subject Matter
crime
Sheriff Ben Strang; Ben's unnamed son
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!
Reprinting
FlagShock Suspenstories #5 published September 1993
as Justice [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? (spot illustration)
? (spot illustration)
typeset
Subject Matter
Shock Talk
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
What Fur?!

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
Emile Le Doux (a furrier); Henri (the furrier's assistant, death); Captain George Limpfort (rocket transporter); Emma Limpfort (George's wife)
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!
Reprinting
FlagShock Suspenstories #5 published September 1993
as What Fur?! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
6
Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.
Cold Cuts!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
Jack Davis (signed)
Jack Davis (signed)
Marie Severin
Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
horror
A Horror SuspenStory
Helen Benson (Victor's wife, death); Charlie (real estate agent); Mr. Johnson; Mrs. Johnson; Ed (Victor's partner); Victor Benson (villain)
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.
Reprinting
FlagIskalde Grøss #5 [1988] published January 1988
as Skjæring! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagShock Suspenstories #5 published September 1993
as Cold Cuts! [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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