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Issue: Shock SuspenStories #13
Publication Date: February 1954
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Issues: #13 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: 11/24/1953
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 6 (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 B452681.
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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
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Gaines File Copy CGC NM 9.4
 
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, horror
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagShock Suspenstories #13 published September 1995
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Colorist credit by Craig Delich.
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Only Skin-Deep

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Robert Sickles (in flashback, death); Gloria Anders (villain, wife of Charles, death); Charles Anders (villain)
First Line: She stood in the center of the sunlight-filled hospital room...
Synopsis: A man comes out of an car accident with amnesia and plastic surgery to reconstruct extensive facial burns to be met by a woman who claims to be his lover and that the two of them plotted to murder her husband for his insurance money. He travels to a cabin with her and when he slips and bumps his head, his memory returns. He strangles the woman because he recalls that he is not her lover but actually her husband who had overheard their plans to kill him and got the jump on the other man and switched clothes before getting caught in the fire he set in the car's gas tank.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #8/1992 published January 1992
as Skinnet som bedro [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShock Suspenstories #13 published September 1995
as Only Skin-Deep [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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Blood-Brothers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Dr. Falk (coroner); Ella (Sid's wife); Henry Williams (death); Sarah Williams (Henry's wife, death); Mr. Harley (Henry's employer); Jed Martin; George (a farmer, flashback); Sid (villain)
First Line: A last faint whisp of smoke curled upward from the blackened and charred cross...
Synopsis: A bigot finds out that his life was saved as a child by a blood transfusion from a black man.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #2/1994 published January 1994
as Blodsbrødre [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShock Suspenstories #13 published September 1995
as Blood-Brothers [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #2 published August 2012
as Blood-Brothers [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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Proposal

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, humorous, romantic
Character(s): Marvin Bindlestiff; Desire Flinch; Desire's father
Synopsis: Marvin met Desire at Gala Dance, and, although he never actually danced with her, he did escort her home. Then he wined and dined her a few times before he finally decided to ask for her hand in marriage. To Marvin's total surprise, Desire unscrewed her hand and handed it to Marvin, and her father said that anytime Marvin wanted anything else from her to just ask!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagShock Suspenstories #15 published March 1996
as Proposal [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Upon Reflection

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Joey Berksant (boxer, death); Nicky (Joey's trainer, in flashback); unnamed psychiatrist; Manny Williams (boxer, in flashback, death); Manny's wife (in flashback); Benny (gym trainer)
First Line: The psychiatrist's office was dimly lit and the traffic noises outside were almost inaudible.
Synopsis: A boxer feels guilty for killing a man in the ring when the man's widow screams at him that he's a 'beast'. He perceives that his hands and face are taking on the appearance of a gorilla but a psychologist tells him that it's all in his mind. He sees a mirror on the street and resolves to look into it. He gaps in horror and then withdraws the pistol he had in his jacket to shoot himself. The store owner is puzzled by the suicide and tells the nearby police officer that he had recently purchased a trick mirror to spruce up business.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #6/1993 published January 1993
as Sjelens speilbilde [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShock Suspenstories #13 published September 1995
as Upon Reflection [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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Squeeze Play

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Cora (Harry's girl, death); Sue; Bea; Nan; Ella; Janet; Jimmy; Arnie; Melvin; Harry [aka Johnny] (villain, death)
First Line: Harry cowered against the rough concrete pillar...
Synopsis: A young man gets a girl pregnant and then murders her by throwing her out of a roller coaster car. The other riders, who hear her screams for help, summon the police. The killer then bolts and buries his incriminating clothes beneath the beach's boardwalk and tries to get a ride home with some girls. They soon cajole him into the surf, despite his protests that he can't swim, but quickly abandon him when they see their boyfriends arrive leaving him to drown.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagEC Horror Library of the 1950's #[nn] published January 1970
as Squeeze Play [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEC Portfolio #2 published January 1972
as Squeeze Play [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #1/1994 published January 1994
as Katt og mus [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShock Suspenstories #13 published September 1995
as Squeeze Play [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #3 published March 2013
as Squeeze Play [Story on Interior Page(s)]black and white reprint
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Due to deadline problems, Williamson, who pawned this story over to Frazetta, was asked to finish off a few of the panels.

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

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