E.C. Classic Reprint #3

(1973)

Deadline (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein

Pencils

Jack Kamen (signed)

Inks

Jack Kamen (signed)

Colors

Marie Severin

Letters

Jim Wroten

Genre

crime

Characters

Phil Mason [aka Paul in the opening blurb] (newspaper editor); Annie (Larry's love interest, wife of diner owner); Stan (newspaper reporter); Mike (diner owner); Larry Grieg (villain, ex-newspaper reporter)

Synopsis

An alcoholic ex-reporter tries to get back on his feet after meeting a girl, and his old boss says he can have his job back if he brings in a story. While sitting in a diner he hears violence occuring in the next room, and the diner owner comes out and confesses to murder. Larry thinks he's found his story and takes down all the details, then checks on the girl and discovers two things about her: she is still alive and she is the girl he had met earlier!

Reprints

• from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #12 (December 1953 - January 1954)

The Monkey (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein

Pencils

Joe Orlando (signed)

Inks

Joe Orlando (signed)

Colors

Marie Severin

Letters

Jim Wroten

Genre

crime

Characters

Sue Minner (drug user); Mr. Clements (Eddie's boss); Eddie's father (death); Eddie's mother; unnamed narcotics officer; Sid Scanlon (villain, drug dealer); Eddie (villain, drug addict)

Synopsis

A drug addict murders his father in order to get his fix.

Reprints

• from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #12 (December 1953 - January 1954)

Indexer Notes

Drug story.

The Kidnapper (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein

Pencils

Reed Crandall (signed)

Inks

Reed Crandall (signed)

Colors

Marie Severin

Letters

Jim Wroten

Genre

crime

Characters

Daniel (death); Teresa (Daniel's wife); un-named son of Daniel and Teresa; Frederick (neighbor of Daniel and Teresa)

Synopsis

A man's baby is kidnapped and when his wife's mental health grows so bad that he desperately attempts to steal another baby, he is beaten to death by a crowd of onlookers for attempting to kidnap...his own son.

Reprints

• from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #12 (December 1953 - January 1954)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

Shock Talk / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Ron Barlow; Bruce Hershenson

Letters

typeset

Fall Guy (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein

Pencils

Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)

Inks

Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)

Colors

Marie Severin

Letters

Jim Wroten

Genre

crime

Characters

Helen (Danny's girl); unnamed diamond merchant; Danny Jansen [aka Brad Gilbert] (villain, hotel clerk, thief)

Synopsis

A hotel clerk steals $100,000 from a diamond merchant and then rents a safety deposit box years in advance under the name 'Brad Gilbert'. He serves 15 years for the theft, then meets with the girl who promised to wait for him because she wants the money. Unable to remember the name he used, the girl berates his inability to recall the name, and he slashes her face with a steak knife. As the police close in on him, he jumps off a roof, clutching at letters of a sign, and, as he lies dying on the pavement, he sees the remaining neon letters spell out 'Brad Gilbert'.

Reprints

• from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #12 (December 1953 - January 1954)

In This Issue (Table of Contents: 6)

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Jack Kamen; Wally Wood; Reed Crandall; Joe Orlando

Inks

Jack Kamen; Wally Wood; Reed Crandall; Joe Orlando

Colors

Marie Severin

Letters

Jim Wroten

Genre

crime

Indexer Notes

On back cover.