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Issue: Shock SuspenStories #8
Publication Date: April 1953
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Issues: #8 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: 01/20/1953
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 7 (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, January-June 1953, page 140, registration number B397495.
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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, science fiction
Feature(s): Shock SuspenStories
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #4/1992 published January 1992
as Krim-spesial [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagShock Suspenstories #8 published June 1994
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Piecemeal

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): A Horror SuspenStory
Character(s): Sidney (a naturalist); Eric (villain, Sidney's brother, Sally's lover, death); Sally (villain, Sidney's wife, death)
First Line: The blood-curdling screams that had filled the night...
Synopsis: A woman plots to give her naturalist husband an overdose of sleeping pills so that she can be with his younger brother. Before he passes, he acquires a large shark and places it in their outdoor pool in which the wife regularly swims.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #6/1993 published January 1993
as En grådig hevn [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShock Suspenstories #8 published June 1994
as Piecemeal [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 Assault!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): A Shock SuspenStory
Character(s): Mrs. Cartwright (Lucy's mother); Mr. Cartwright (Lucy's father); Hodges (town derelict, death); George (villain, Lucy's lover); Lucy Cartwright (villain, death)
First Line: The downpour had begun again.
Synopsis: Lucy, who was spending hours away from home on a regular basis, comes home one night and claims that old Hodges kidnapped and raped her, when, in fact, she had been with her lover. However, when the old man is killed and Lucy spurns her lover, he does the only honorable thing in his mind: kill her!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #5/1994 published January 1994
as Overgrepet [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShock Suspenstories #8 published June 1994
as The Assault! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #2 published August 2012
as The Assault! [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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Suicide

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): unnamed old man (janitor, death); Patterson (villain, death)
First Line: Patterson bit his lip and sent his fist crashing into the old man's face.
Synopsis: Patterson had to kill the old janitor after he had broken into a joint in order to keep the man from identifying the criminal. However, Patterson tried to make his crime look like suicide, but the plan backfired when the bullet to the old man's head went into a nearby boiler and scalded the criminal to death!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagShock Suspenstories #8 published June 1994
as Suicide [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Shock Talk

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: After making an appeal to readers to ask their newsdealers to prominently display EC magazines, the editors publish a variety of letters from the readers, plus a few reacting to the story "Undercover" from issue #6.
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The Arrival

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): A Science-Fiction SuspenStory
Character(s): Grozo (Martian); Zkorl (Martian); Spdork (Martian); unnamed Pharaoh of Egypt (flashback); Christopher Columbus (flashback); Napoleon Bonaparte (flashback); Thomas Edison (flashback); Orville Wright (flashback); Wilbur Wright (flashback)
First Line: They had watched Earth.
Synopsis: Ninety-five thousand years after man destroys himself with nuclear weapons, the evolved rats develop space travel and meet their Martian neighbors.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagShock Suspenstories #8 published June 1994
as The Arrival [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #3 published March 2013
as The Arrival [Story on Interior Page(s)]black and white reprint
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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Seep No More!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): A Crime SuspenStory
Character(s): Mrs. Monahan (Finner's landlady); Irene Lauton (actress, death); two unnamed detectives; Mr. Finner (villain, boarder)
First Line: I wondered if Mrs. Monahan had called the police.
Synopsis: Every morning, after a man stabs a woman to death and stashes her body in the attic, he sees a huge bloodstain spreading across his ceiling. He tries to cover it up with paint, but every morning it's there. He even puts a bucket on the floor to collect the blood, and it appears half full to him when the suspicious detectives listen to his confession and tell him there is no stain and no blood in the bucket.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #4/1992 published January 1992
as Mareritt i rødt [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShock Suspenstories #8 published June 1994
as Seep No More! [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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