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Issue: Shock SuspenStories #7
Publication Date: February 1953
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Issues: #7 of 18 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagEC
Brand: EC An Entertaining ComicView Brand Images2
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):  
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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Gaines File Copy CGC NM/MT 9.8
 
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Shock SuspenStories
Synopsis: A man gets struck by lightning.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagShock Suspenstories #7 published March 1994
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Beauty And The Beach!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): A Crime SuspenStory
Character(s): 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)
First Line: The shocking final twist to this electrifying tale will terrify you!
Synopsis: 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
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #1/1994 published January 1994
as Skjønnheten i sanden [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShock Suspenstories #7 published March 1994
as Beauty and the Beach! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.
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The Bribe!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): A Shock SuspenStory
Character(s): 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)
First Line: You'll be jolted out of your seats by the solid impact of this gripping narrative!
Synopsis: 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
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #3/1989 published January 1989
as Bestikkelsen! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShock Suspenstories #7 published March 1994
as The Bribe! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #2 published August 2012
as The Bribe! [Story on Interior Page(s)]black-and-white reprint
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.
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The Mountain Jackal

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (spot illustration)
Inker(s): ? (spot illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Jenga Shah (a bhisti); Tajik Kabal (villain, Afghan chieftan, death)
First Line: Tajik Kabal, the lawless Afghan chieftan...
Synopsis: 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!
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: If we may be serious, this issue...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.67
Disclose Notes: 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.
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Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.33
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Infiltration

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): A Science-Fiction SuspenStory
Character(s): 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)
First Line: Brace yourselves for the startling wind-up to this science-fiction yarn!
Synopsis: 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.
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In Content Item: FlagShock Suspenstories #7 published March 1994
as Infiltration [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.
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The Small Assassin!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): A Horror SuspenStory
Character(s): Alice (death); David (Alice's husband, death); Dr. Jeffers; David and Alice's unnamed baby (villain, eventual death)
First Line: Here is a tale of tension with sheer horror in its blood-curdling climax!
Synopsis: 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
In Content Item: FlagThe Autumn People #[nn] published October 1965
as The Small Assassin [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #6/1993 published January 1993
as Den lille morder! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShock Suspenstories #7 published March 1994
as The Small Assassin! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

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