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Issue: Shock Illustrated #[nn]
Publication Date: January 2006
 
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Publisher: FlagRuss Cochran
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Indicia Publisher: Gemstone Publishing Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume:
Pages: 256
ISBN: 1888472219
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Price: none entered
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Content Items: 41 (19 stories, 2 covers)
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Disclose Notes: Part of the Complete EC Library.
Collects all four issues of the EC Picto-Fiction line title Shock Illustrated. Issue #4, previously unpublished, is published for the first time here.
Distributed in a four-volume slipcase along with the hardcover collections Terror Illustrated, Crime Illustrated, and Confessions Illustrated.
Slipcase title: Shock Illustrated • Terror Illustrated • Crime Illustrated • Confessions Illustrated
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; black and white interior with some color
Dimensions: 9.25 " x 12.25 "
Paper Stock: thick glossy cardboard cover; glossy interior cover reprints and bond interior story pages
Binding: hardcover
Publishing Format: collected edition
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Genres: crime
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Genres: crime
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Genres: crime
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First Line: After EC's "clean line" of New Direction comics failed...
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Disclose Notes: Article about the creation of Shock Illustrated #1.
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First Line: "SHOCK Illustrated" is the first of a new series of magazines...
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The Needle

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Genres: crime, drama
First Line: They took Peggy Blaine down to the police station...
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Disclose Notes: all stories in "illustrated text" format
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Switch Party

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Genres: drama
First Line: There was an air of unreality about it.
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The Jacket

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Genres: crime, drama
First Line: The crowd stared up at the boy on the ledge of the east side tenement apartment building.
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Photo of Al Feldstein with a horse

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First Line: Shock Illustrated made a number of dramatic changes...
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Disclose Notes: Description of the changes made between Shock Illustrated 1 and 2.
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First Line: "Shock Illustrated" was the first of a new line of magazines...
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Disclose Notes: Includes table of contents, publisher credits, and A Message from the Editors.
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The Lipstick Killer

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Genres: crime
First Line: There had been no outcry.
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My Brother's Keeper

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Genres: crime
First Line: Those kids!
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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First Line: There are three more E.C. "Picto-Fiction" magazines!
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Disclose Notes: House ad for Crime Illustrated #1, Confessions Illustrated #1, and Terror Illustrated #1.
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Feature(s): Letters to the Editor
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Disclose Notes: Letters from Fred Von Bernewitz, B. Young, George R. Tullis, Denis Rullo, John L. Townsley, York Anderson, Arlene Silvers, E. Russo, Joel Schumacher, Linda Tweed, Barbard Jens, and Floyd W. Lawrence; includes cover image of issue #1.
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A Question of Time

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Genres: crime
First Line: They stood about in the quiet tourist cabin...
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Disclose Notes: adapted from original story in CRIME SUSPENSTORIES #13
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Dead Right

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Genres: crime
First Line: Joseph Fairbanks and I had been old, old friends.
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Disclose Notes: adapted from original story in TALES FROM THE CRYPT #37
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Genres: crime
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Assignment sheet

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First Line: This assignment sheet was found with the Picto-Fiction art.
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Disclose Notes: Photo of a document which contains assignments for the Picto-Fiction magazines.
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An Interview with Jack Kamen

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First Line: You told Dan Vaughan in a 2001 interview...
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Disclose Notes: Interview with Jack Kamen about his involvement in Shock Illustrated.
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A message from the editors

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First Line: This is the third issue of "SHOCK Illustrated"...
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Curiosity Killed

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First Line: There isn't much time left.
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Disclose Notes: adapted from original story in TALES FROM THE CRYPT #36.
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The Demon

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First Line: Hardy was the last of the reporters to leave.
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Feature(s): Letters to the Editor
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Disclose Notes: Letters from Laurence A. Wolley, Fred Coleman, Jr., Isaac Goodrich, Landon Chesney, Milton Harwood, Paul R. Barclay, Duane Elliot, Gary Hoopes, A.W. Gaito, Ethel Danziger, Robert Michaels, Irving Fischer.
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Sin Doll

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First Line: The late afternoon sun, streaming in through the torn window shade...
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One Man's Meat

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First Line: Myra stood in the doorway and laughed...
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Woman in bed being attacked

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Disclose Notes: This cover was prepared for the third issue of Shock Illustrated in 1956. It is published for the first time in this volume.
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Planning sheet

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First Line: This sheet, found with the Picto-Fiction art...
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Disclose Notes: Planning document for the Picto-Fiction magazines.
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In This Issue

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Disclose Notes: Credits, table of contents, indicia and a panel excerpt from an interior story.
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Headwork

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First Line: Below the sheer drop of the dock edge...
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Disclose Notes: This story was prepared for the fourth issue of Shock Illustrated in 1956. It is published for the first time in this volume.

According to an essay by Roger Hill in this volume, we do not know who the authors are for the original stories in Shock #4.
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Came the Dawn

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Genres: crime
First Line: I knew that someone was in the cabin the minute I hit the clearing.
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Disclose Notes: This story was prepared for the fourth issue of Shock Illustrated in 1956. It is published for the first time in this volume.

Adapted from original story in Shock SuspenStories #9.

Story reproduced from Frazetta's original, unpublished pages. Some panels are completely finished, others penciled and not completely inked.
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The Survivor

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Genres: crime
First Line: Behind, there was a narrow stretch of white beach...
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Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: This story was prepared for the fourth issue of Shock Illustrated in 1956. It is published for the first time in this volume.

According to an essay by Roger Hill in this volume, we do not know who the authors are for the original stories in Shock #4.
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First Line: The fact that the new "adult strength" Shock appeared...
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Disclose Notes: Essay about the end of the Picto-Fiction magazines.
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Another Man's Poison

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Genres: crime
First Line: Nora stepped into the study.
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Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: This story was prepared for the fourth issue of Shock Illustrated in 1956. It is published for the first time in this volume.

Adapted from the story "Medicine" in Crime SuspenStories #9.
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Alter Ego

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First Line: George Perry was forty years old when he discovered that he was a vegetable.
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: This story was prepared for the fourth issue of Shock Illustrated in 1956. It is published for the first time in this volume.

According to an essay by Roger Hill in this volume, we do not know who the authors are for the original stories in Shock #4.
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Dry Run

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Genres: crime
First Line: "Daddy, we want a drink of water."
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Reprint of the original script for a story intended for Shock #5, with an unsigned introduction.
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The Iron Man

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Genres: crime
First Line: "...and furthermore, said Jeff Conlon, as editor-in-chief...
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Reprint of the original script for a story intended for Shock Illustrated, with an unsigned introduction.
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Lipstick Traces

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First Line: I can ever reread the Shock Illustrated story...
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Essay connecting the story "Lipstick Traces" with the film "While the City Sleeps", including scenes from the film.
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Genres: crime
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Disclose Notes: back cover.

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