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Issue: Shock SuspenStories #9
Publication Date: June 1953
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Issues: #9 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: 03/12/1953
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 B403964.
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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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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
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Title Page
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Carrion Death

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): Shock SuspenStories
Character(s): unnamed State Trooper; unnamed bank robber
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagDen store skrækbog #[nn] published January 1974
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagDen store skrækbog #[nn] published January 1974
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShock Suspenstories #9 published September 1994
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Story title taken from the inside story.
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The October Game

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): A Horror SuspenStory
Character(s): Louise Wilder (Mitch's wife); Marion Wilder (Louise and Mitch's daughter, death); Helen; Mitch Wilder (villain)
First Line: Mitch put the gun back into the bureau drawer...
Synopsis: A madman who hates his wife dismembers his daughter and passes around her body parts to children in a darkened cellar on Halloween.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #5/1993 published January 1993
as Oktoberlek [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShock Suspenstories #9 published September 1994
as The October Game [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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Came The Dawn!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, horror
Character(s): Cathy Maxwell (death); Bob Ames; un-named criminally insane girl (villain)
First Line: I knew someone was in the lodge the minute I hit the clearing.
Synopsis: A man thinks that the girl he has met in the woods may be a dangerous escaped lunatic because she matches the description, but his girlfriend ends up meeting a grim fate as the latest victim of the true escapee.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagEC Horror Library of the 1950's #[nn] published January 1970
as Came the Dawn [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEC Portfolio #5 published January 1974
as Came the Dawn! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagDen store skrækbog #[nn] published January 1974
as Lad gryet komme [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #4/1992 published January 1992
as Et gryende lys [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShock Suspenstories #9 published September 1994
as Came the Dawn! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #2 published August 2012
as Came the Dawn! [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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Surgery!

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Doc Spender (unlicensed doctor); Bat Parker (villain); Danny (villain)
First Line: Ben Parker sniffed deeply at the ether-soaked sponge...
Synopsis: In a Police Hospital room, criminal Bat Parker, seriously wounded in a gunfight with the Police, needs a gangrene-laden leg amputated before he dies. The only way this quack would operate was if he were drunk. That was the easy part......the hard part was Bat discovering that the doc had cut off the wrong leg!
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Shock Talk

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: The Editors print a variety of letters from readers, many of which centered around the Ray Bradbury adaptation, "The Small Assassin" from issue #7.
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The Meddlers!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Dr. Conrad Rivers (research chemist, death); Mr. Kearns (groery store owner, death); the widow Jones (death); Jed (death); Enos (death); Martha (death)
First Line: When he came downtown on those rare visits to pick up provisions...
Synopsis: The folk of a small town attempt to drive away a doctor who is attempting to create life in a test tube. They smash his equipment while he suffers heart failure. His failed experiments combine in the sewer to create a blob-like living mass which devours the townsfolk.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #3/1994 published January 1994
as Trangsyn! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShock Suspenstories #9 published September 1994
as The Meddlers! [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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Carrion Death!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): unnamed State Trooper (death); unnamed bank robber (villain, death)
First Line: My lips are parched and swollen and cracked.
Synopsis: A man handcuffed to a policeman is trying to make his way through the desert on foot. He realizes that he has to separate himself from the body but has nothing sharp to cut off the dead man's hand with. He decides to lie down and allow the vultures to strip the corpse, but when he regains consciousness the vultures have already started in on him as well.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagEC Horror Library of the 1950's #[nn] published January 1970
as Carrion Death [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagNacht der vampiers #[nn] published January 1973
as Gevleugelde dood [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagDen store skrækbog #[nn] published January 1974
as Døden følger med [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #3/1989 published January 1989
as En rå død! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShock Suspenstories #9 published September 1994
as Carrion Death [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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