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[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: crime

Feature(s): Shock SuspenStories

Reprinting

In Issue:

E.C. Classic Reprint #12 published January 1975cover

In Content Item: Flag

Shock Suspenstories #2 published December 1992
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]

Reprint Notes: in The EC Archives (Gemstone Publishing, 2006 series): Shock SuspenStories Volume 1 (July 2006)

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Colorist and letterer credits by Craig Delich.

Shock Talk

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

Reprinting

Reprint Notes: in The EC Archives (Gemstone Publishing, 2006 series): Shock SuspenStories Volume 1 (July 2006)

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Found on the inside front cover.

Kickback!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: crime

Feature(s): A Crime SuspenStory

Character(s): Oscar Higgins (Freda's husband, death); unnamed doctor; Rick (Freda's boy friend); Fritz (construction worker); Mr. Davidson (Freda's lawyer); Freda Higgins (villain)

First Line: Brace yourself for the shocking final twist to this gripping tale of tension...

Synopsis: A young woman marries an older man for his money and gets tried of caring for him after a heart attack leaves him paralyzed. She comes up with a plot to stock the cellar with canned goods for three weeks and then pretends to be locked inside while her husband starves to death. It works, and she is cleared of suspicion in her husband's death, but the new man she meets manages to lock himself in the cellar without provisions for several days and is reduced to the same condition as her previous husband.

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Iskalde Grøss #7/1990 published January 1990
as Baksmell! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

In Content Item: Flag

Shock Suspenstories #2 published December 1992
as Kickback! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes: in The EC Archives (Gemstone Publishing, 2006 series): Shock SuspenStories Volume 1 (July 2006)

Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

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

Gee, Dad... It's a Daisy!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Feature(s): A Science-Fiction SuspenStory

Character(s): Lieutenant Stanley Linden (Astro-Navigator, death); Lieutenant Arnold Hartley (Rocket-Engineer, death?); Lieutenant Segal (crewman, death); Dickson (radio man, death); Phelps (crew member, death); un-named Commander of the Orion-W (death); Shrdnu (villain, intelligent plant); Vichnu (villain, intelligent plant)

First Line: The wind-up to this science fiction yarn should give you quite a jolt!

Synopsis: Space explorers land on a planet teeming with intelligent carnivorous plants and fall victim to a demonstration of "She loves me...She loves me not..."

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Shock Suspenstories #2 published December 1992
as Gee, Dad... It's a Daisy! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes: in The EC Archives (Gemstone Publishing, 2006 series): Shock SuspenStories Volume 1 (July 2006)

Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

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

Time to Kill!

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Penciller(s): ? (spot illustration)

Inker(s): ? (spot illustration)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: crime

Character(s): Edna Small (Charlie's wife); Charlie Small (villain, death)

First Line: Charlie Small sneered as he looked at the small vial of fluid in his hand.

Synopsis: Charlie had a sure-fire plan to kill the wife he hated so badly: he would plant an explosive in the alarm clock on the bedroom nightstand that would go off at 7am the next morning, then head out on a supposed business trip before that time. What he didn't know was that his ever thoughtful wife packed the alarm clock in his suitcase!

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Shock Suspenstories #2 published December 1992
as Time to Kill! [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes: in The EC Archives (Gemstone Publishing, 2006 series): Shock SuspenStories Volume 1 (July 2006)

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Hiding Place

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: crime

Character(s): Mike Kleatt (villain, jewel thief, death)

First Line: The ease with which Mike Kleatt opened the display case...

Synopsis: Mike had succeeded in snatching the quarter-of-a-million dollar Inca Crown Jewels from the museum and hiding them in a secret pocket of his jacket lining. He made his way through the various rooms of the museum and was in the European Torture Device room when he heard sirens and an announcement that thew jewels were stolen and all patrons were to be searched. However, he picks the wrong place to hide!

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Shock Suspenstories #2 published December 1992
as Hiding Place [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes: in The EC Archives (Gemstone Publishing, 2006 series): Shock SuspenStories Volume 1 (July 2006)

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

The Patriots!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: war

Feature(s): A Shock SuspenStory

Character(s): Freddy (death); Freddy's unnamed wife; Charlie (crowd on-looker)

First Line: Here is an electrifying story with solid impact in its startling conclusion!

Synopsis: A mob at a military parade to honor wounded Korean War soldiers, whipped up by anti-communist sentiment, beats to death a blind war vet when he doesn't doff his hat to the flag during the parade.

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Shock Suspenstories #2 published December 1992
as The Patriots! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

In Content Item: Flag

Iskalde Grøss #3/1993 published January 1993
as Patriotene! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes: in The EC Archives (Gemstone Publishing, 2006 series): Shock SuspenStories Volume 1 (July 2006)

Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

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

Cover story.

Halloween!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Feature(s): A Horror SuspenStory

Character(s): Ann Dennis (matron at Briarwood); Tommy (orphan); Mary (orphan); Eban Critchit (villain, Master of Briarwood, death)

First Line: For... sheer, stark horror, read this terrifying tale... guaranteed to jar you out of your seat!

Synopsis: On Halloween night, when a new matron at an orphanage discovers the manager has been stealing the state's allotment for the children and threatens to strangle her to keep her quiet, the children take matters into their own hands and use his hollowed-out head as a pumpkin.

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Iskalde Grøss #4/1992 published January 1992
as Allehelgensfesten [Story on Interior Page(s)]

In Content Item: Flag

Shock Suspenstories #2 published December 1992
as Halloween! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

Reprint Notes: in The EC Archives (Gemstone Publishing, 2006 series): Shock SuspenStories Volume 1 (July 2006)

Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

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