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Issue: Shock SuspenStories #10

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Publication Date: August 1953

Issue #10
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- #5
- #6
- #7
- #8
- #9
- ✔ #10
- #11
- #12
- #13
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Issues: #10 of 18 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating: [no rating]

Publisher: Flag

Brand: EC An Entertaining Comic

Indicia Publisher: Tiny Tot Comics Inc.

On Sale Date: 06/05/1953

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 7 (5 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s):

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 B419618.

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Format

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:

Reprinted In10

6 Content Items

reprinted 10 times as Content Items in other Issues.

Reprinted From0

There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.

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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+ 9.6

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Cover, Front

Original Artwork

Digital Edition

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Title Page

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Content Items (7 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: crime, horror

Feature(s): Shock SuspenStories

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Shock Suspenstories #10 published December 1994
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]

In Content Item: Flag

Nemi #4 published June 2003
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

The Sacrifice

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: crime

Feature(s): A Crime SuspenStory

Character(s): Jonathan Fielding (death); Paul Nichols (villain, witness to Jonathan's murder, blackmailer); Gloria Fielding (villain, Jonathan's wife); James Reed (villain, insurance salesman, death)

First Line: I have just written, signed and mailed to the police a carefully worded statement...

Synopsis: A woman manipulates a man into killing her husband by pretending to be in love with him, while she and her lover work out a scheme whereby he claims to be a witness to the killing and blackmails the two of them into letting him sleep with the woman. She carries on this act, pretending to be progressively degraded and begging for salvation, until the dupe finally writes out a confession implicating only himself in the murder and swallows a bottle of poison. She then gleefully regales the dying man the details of the con.

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Iskalde Grøss #2/1993 published January 1993
as Offeret [Story on Interior Page(s)]

In Content Item: Flag

Shock Suspenstories #10 published December 1994
as The Sacrifice [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

Notes: Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

Cover story.

...so shall ye reap!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: crime

Character(s): Murray Vorhees; Wilma Vorhees; Kenneth Vorhees (villain, the Vorhee's son, death); Hicky (villain, gang member)

First Line: The man and the woman sat in the living-room of their modest frame house...

Synopsis: A young man sitting in the electric chair reflects on the events of his youth while his parents are sitting at home do the same. The parents see their past actions in a positive light, but their son sees things from a different perspective.

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Iskalde Grøss #5 [1988] published January 1988
as Som man sår .... [Story on Interior Page(s)]

In Content Item: Flag

Shock Suspenstories #10 published December 1994
as ...So Shall Ye Reap! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

In Content Item: Flag

The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #2 published August 2012
as ...So Shall Ye Reap! [Story on Interior Page(s)]black-and-white reprint

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Notes: Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

Story involves use of drugs.

Operation!

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: crime

Character(s): unnamed anesthesiologist; unnamed Chief Surgeon; unnamed Generalissimo (villain, death); unnamed members of the Secret Police (villains)

First Line: The anaesthetist turned the wheel on the gleaming instrument panel...

Synopsis: A dictator is in the operating room, having gas administered as usual, with the doctor ready to operate. The members of the Secret Police were all around the room, making sure the Leader was safe. Suddenly, a man in a bowler hat came in and grabbed the anaesthetist, claiming he was trying to kill the Leader, and not realizing that this led the gas being accidently turned on full.....the end result: the Leader blew up!

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Shock Suspenstories #10 published December 1994
as Operation! [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Shock Talk

Letters Page on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: The Editors publish a variety of letters from readers commenting on the story, "The Assault", from issue #8, plus a few other letters.

Home Run!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Feature(s): A Science-Fiction SuspenStory

Character(s): Doctor Muller (atomic scientist, absorbed into a Martian); Doctor Caxton (Muller's supervisor); a Martian (villain)

First Line: There was a silence surrounding the rocket-ship...

Synopsis: Astronauts are approaching Mars when one of their number admits to them that he is really a Martian who designed the rocket in order to return home after his crashed. The other astronauts think he has lost his mind and attempt to seize his gun, which discharges, killing him. They land on Mars and notice that the body has regained its true form and realize the creature was telling them the truth and that hostile Martians are now waiting outside to absorb their bodies and return to Earth as Martian infiltrators.

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Shock Suspenstories #10 published December 1994
as Home Run! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Notes: Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

Sweetie-Pie

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Feature(s): A Horror SuspenStory

Character(s): Philip Garson (reporter for the Consolidated Press Service, death); Sally Garson (Philip's wife, death); unnamed editor of the Consolidated Press Service; O'Hara (State Patrol officer); Eddie (Consolidated Press reporter); a Ghoul (villain)

First Line: Sally screamed...

Synopsis: Philip, a reporter, is put on a story involving people who have been involved in car wrecks and the bodies displaying evidence of puncture marks on their throats and all blood drained from their bodies. The problem is: not all of the victims were found....just 4 of 16 bodies total. Soon, Philip and his new bride are involved in an accident, and he learns the true fate of all the victims: a ghoul has set up roadside hazards to procure fresh meat.

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Shock Suspenstories #10 published December 1994
as Sweetie-Pie [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Notes: Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.