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Issue: Shock SuspenStories #17
Publication Date: October 1954
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Issues: #17 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: 08/15/1954
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 is publication date in Library of Congress copyright record (registered in 1979).
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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
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Gaines File Copy CGC NM 9.4
 
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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In Content Item: FlagShock Suspenstories #17 published September 1996
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Colorist credit by Craig Delich.
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4-Sided Triangle

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Abner Hester (farmer, death); Hester Yates (Abner's wife); Annie (retarded servant of the Hesters)
First Line: It was autumn's first night...
Synopsis: A farmer tries to molest a retarded girl he keeps to work on the farm as a servant. She tells him that she's got a boyfriend that she sees in the evening. She goes out into the field to the scarecrow. The farmer gets the idea of disguising himself as the scarecrow so he can get what he wants from the girl. The farmer's wife is awakened by the sound of their love-making and goes out to the field with a pitchfork. When the girl tells the wife about her boyfriend, the wife tries to demonstrate to her that it's only straw by repeatedly stabbing the scarecrow with the pitchfork.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #4/1993 published January 1993
as 4-sidet trekant [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShock Suspenstories #17 published September 1996
as 4-Sided Triangle [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Cover story.
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In Character

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Lawrence B. Maynor (President of Magnus Pictures, death); Don Muller (Bela's agent, death); Marcel Duvall (make-up man, death); Sidney Chase (Treasurer of Magnus Pictures, death); Bela Kardiff (villain, actor)
First Line: The tinkling of dazzling silverware and fine crystal glasses and expensive china...
Synopsis: Bela Kardiff murders all of his Hollywood contacts at a dinner honoring him after he has been typecast in horror pictures and then the company decides to dump him because they are not going to do horror pictures any longer.
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In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #1/1994 published January 1994
as Typisk nok [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShock Suspenstories #17 published September 1996
as In Character [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Some of the story is told in flashback.
Bela Kardiff is an amalgamation of Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi.
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Timetable

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (masthead)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Sylvia Gardent (Mr. Gardent's wife, death); Mr. Gardent's unnamed secretary; Mr. Gardent (death)
First Line: Mr. Garden slammed the front door furiously, his face livid with rage.
Synopsis: Mr. Gardent just had a terrible argument with his wife, so he decided to play a prank on her. Knowing that it was her bridge night and she was away from the house, he snuck in, wrote a phony suicide note and took a bunch of sleeping pills, confident in the fact that she would come home, find him, and get him rushed to the hospital in order to save his life. What he did not know was that Sylvia, upset over the argument, skipped her bridge night out, took 20 of the sleeping pills, wrote a note and was already laying dead in the adjoining room.
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In Content Item: FlagShock Suspenstories #17 published September 1996
as Timetable [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Assassin

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): unnamed actor (death); unnamed assassin (villain)
First Line: Drizzle... the kind of cold misty drizzle your flesh sops up like a sponge...
Synopsis: An assassin unknowingly pursues his mark to the backstage of a theater and kills the man just before the curtain rises. It turns out that the assassin has walked in on the opening scene of a play about President William McKinley and the man who assassinated him!
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In Content Item: FlagEC Horror Library of the 1950's #[nn] published January 1970
as The Assassin [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #5/1993 published January 1993
as Morderen [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShock Suspenstories #17 published September 1996
as The Assassin [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
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The Operation

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Allie (villain, smuggler, death); Bimmy (villain, smuggler, death); Doc Slater (villain, doctor, death)
First Line: The reason why I can tell this story now is because I am no longer in the "fence" business...
Synopsis: A diamond thief surgeon cuts open his two goons to smuggle diamonds into the country in their bodies. When he gets a big one worth $250,000 he tells the men he will operate on both of them, but place the diamond in only one so that they will not be tempted to disappear. The doctor sends them a note saying he will be delayed because he knows that this will play on their greed and they will turn on each other. They kill each other, but the doctor did not place the stone in either of them but himself. But the diamond was paste and it quickly caused the doctor's death due to poisoning.
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In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #7/1990 published January 1990
as Operasjonen [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShock Suspenstories #17 published September 1996
as The Operation [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7

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