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[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: crime

Feature(s): Shock SuspenStories

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Shock Suspenstories #4 published June 1993
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 credit by Craig Delich.

Shock Talk

Letters Page 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, which contains letters from Marie Raah, Roger Roberson, Ruby MacDonell, John Gordon, R. C. Ford and John Lanctot, as well as editorial hype.

Split Second!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: crime

Feature(s): A Crime SuspenStory

Character(s): Jack (lumberjack); Fuz (lumberjack); Ted Morgan (lumberjack); Steve Dixon (villain, lumberjack boss, death); Liz (Silver Dollar Saloon singer, Steve's wife, eventual death)

First Line: You'll be jarred by the impact of the startling climax to this yarn!

Synopsis: When a lumberjack boss blinds a young worker by hitting him in the head with a rock, the other lumberjacks gag him and stuff him in a hollow log for the blind boy to practice chopping through......and Liz, his wife, is next!

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Shock Suspenstories #4 published June 1993
as Split Second! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

In Content Item: Flag

Iskalde Grøss #2/1994 published January 1994
as Blindt raseri [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.

Confession

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: crime

Feature(s): A Shock SuspenStory

Character(s): Arthur Keenan; Flagg (Policeman); Riley (Policeman); Mason (Policeman); Detective Doyle; Charlie (Police switchboard operator); Mrs. Staley (Lieutenant Staley's wife, death); Lieutenant Staley (villain, Policeman)

First Line: Here's a gripping tale of tension with an electrifying final twist!

Synopsis: Police Lieutenant Staley murders his wife and then beats a confession out of an innocent by-stander.

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Iskalde Grøss album #2 published May 1990
as Tilståelsen! [Story on Interior Page(s)]

In Content Item: Flag

Shock Suspenstories #4 published June 1993
as Confession [Story on Interior Page(s)]

In Content Item: Flag

The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #2 published August 2012
as Confession [Story on Interior Page(s)]black-and-white reprint

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.

Last Ride!

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): unnamed woman (wife of unnamed man, death); unnamed man (villain, death)

First Line: Cautiously he squirmed past the tiny emergency door, hearing his breath echo explosively through the shaft.

Synopsis: A man decides on a novel way of killing his wife because she is seeking a divorce, which would cut him off from her fortune. As she boarded an elevator on the penthouse level, the man stepped into the shaft through an emergency door, and cut the last cable to the elevator, which would send the car plunging down at him. Unfortunately for him, when that cable was cut, the system automatically shut every door leading to the elevator shaft.....and all he could do was watch the plunging car coming toward him!

Reprinting

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

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Salvation!

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): unnamed Police Railroad Detective; unnamed tramp; Bancroft (villain)

First Line: With a shudder of fear, as he crouched low in the wobbling freight car, Bancroft hard the sound of heavy footsteps reverberating across the rooftops...

Synopsis: Bancroft hops a freight train after robbing a stranded motorist to facilitate his flight from the minions of the law, but he hadn't counted on the railroad dick checking every car once the train was moving. It was suicide to jump from the train and, if he was caught, it meant ten years behind bars. Then he spotted a tramp riding the rails and he decided to change clothing with him.....what he didn't know was that this tramp had just killed someone in a nearby town.....and the clothes were covered with the victim's blood!

Reprinting

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

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Strictly Business!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Feature(s): A Science-Fiction SuspenStory

Character(s): Dianne Masters (Alec's wife); unnamed Senator; Alec Craven (a robot)

First Line: This science-fiction story with its suprise ending should startle you!

Synopsis: In the 21st Century, marriage licenses must be renewed every three years, so a man pays a woman thirty thousand dollars to be his wife for three years, but both agree on no sex. She agrees, and over time, falls in love with him. At the end of the three years she tells him that she'll claim she's expecting a child and the license will automatically renew. But he tells her that she could not be expecting a child and reveals he is a robot, and that he only wanted a wife during the past three years for crucial business negotiation appearances.

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Shock Suspenstories #4 published June 1993
as Strictly Business! [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.

Uppercut!

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: horror

Feature(s): A Horror SuspenStory

Character(s): Herby Dixon (boxer); Eddie (boxer); Tom Murphy (boxer); Jerry Colby (boxer, death); Ernie Maxwell (boxer); Max (fight scheduler); Lou (bookie); Joe Wiley (fight promoter, death); Harry (forensic pathologist)

First Line: Your name is Joe Wiley!

Synopsis: A fight promoter tells the boys he sends into the ring that they've got to have guts. One of the washed-up cases steals a drug from his brother in med school that will make a person look dead, but still be alive, so that the promoter will be buried alive. However, when the promoter comes to, he has not been buried but finds himself in a Police morgue, and he briefly looks down to see that his guts have been removed during the autopsy.

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Shock Suspenstories #4 published June 1993
as Uppercut! [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.