(April-May 1954)
EC,
1952 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1954-02-15
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Tiny Tot Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
EC An Entertaining Comic
- Editing
- Al Feldstein (credited as Albert B. Feldstein) (editor); Bill Gaines (credited as William M. Gaines) (managing editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date is publication date in Library of Congress copyright record (registered in 1979).
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Wally Wood (signed as Wood)
- Inks
- Wally Wood (signed as Wood)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- crime
- Reprints
-
in Shock Suspenstories (Russ Cochran, 1981 series) #3 (1981) - in Shock Suspenstories (Gemstone, 1994 series) #14 (December 1995)
- in The EC Archives: Shock SuspenStories (Dark Horse, 2015 series) #3 (April 2015)
-
The Orphan
comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
- Pencils
- Jack Kamen (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Kamen (signed)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Well, it's all over now.
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Sam Johnson (Lucy's father, death); Millie Johnson (Lucy's mother, death); Aunt Kate (Millie's sister); Steve (Millie's love interest, death); (Lucy Johnson (villain, daughter of Sam and Millie)
- Synopsis
- A little girl murders her drunken father and frames her uncaring mother for the crime so that she can go live with her nice aunt.
- Reprints
-
in The Haunt of Fear (Arnold Book Company, 1954 series) #1 ([1954]) - in Shock Suspenstories (Russ Cochran, 1981 series) #3 (1981)
-
in Iskalde Grøss (Semic, 1982 series) #5 [1988] (uke 29 1988) which is reprinted - in Iskalde Grøss pocket (Semic, 1996 series) #2 ([november] 1996)
- in Iskalde Grøss - Klassikerserien (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2006 series) #[nn] ([mai] 2006)
- in Shock Suspenstories (Gemstone, 1994 series) #14 (December 1995)
- in The EC Archives: Shock SuspenStories (Dark Horse, 2015 series) #3 (April 2015)
- in The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) #31 - Three for the Money and Other Stories (December 2021) [Reprinted in black and white.]
-
Indexer Notes
Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-12. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.
The Whipping
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
- Pencils
- Wally Wood (signed as Wood)
- Inks
- Wally Wood (signed as Wood)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- He was a middle-aged man, slightly balding.
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Amy (Ed's daughter, death); Ed's wife; Louis Martinez; Vigilante Society [Ed; Willie; Phil; George; other unnamed townspeople] (villains)
- Synopsis
- A community is up in arms when Mexican-Americans move to town and form a vigilante group to deal with them. However, one of the bigots murders his own daughter when she marries a Mexican.
- Reprints
- in The Haunt of Fear (Arnold Book Company, 1954 series) #1 ([1954])
- in Shock Suspenstories (Russ Cochran, 1981 series) #3 (1981)
- in Iskalde Grøss (Semic, 1982 series) #6/1993 (uke 51 1993)
- in Shock Suspenstories (Gemstone, 1994 series) #14 (December 1995)
- in The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) #2 - Came the Dawn and Other Stories (August 2012) [Reprinted in black and white.]
- in The EC Archives: Shock SuspenStories (Dark Horse, 2015 series) #3 (April 2015)
-
Indexer Notes
Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-12. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.
Oleck credit per "Came the Dawn" volume as possible writer. However, in the Shock Suspenstories Archive (Volume 3, 2015), Oleck is not mentioned as a possible writer, and gives credit to Gaines and Feldstein. Oleck's name removed.
Blunderer
text story / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Marie Severin (spot illustration)
- Inks
- Marie Severin (spot illustration)
- Colors
- Marie Severin ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- spy
- Characters
- Markov (villain, spy)
- Synopsis
- A foreign spy seeks to steal a top secret document from the Nuclear Energy building, and spots a duplicate copy of it carelessly dropped to the floor. Thinking all of the employees in that office were inept fools, he sneaks in and secures the directive and is on the way out when a shot rings out, striking the spy in the back. With his dying breath, he scans the document, which is totally blank!
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Feldstein credit for script removed per Shock SuspenStories Archive #3 (2015), which lists it as unknown.
You, Murderer
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Otto Binder
- Pencils
- Bernie Krigstein (signed as Dr. Caligari Krigstein)
- Inks
- Bernie Krigstein (signed as Dr. Caligari Krigstein)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Don't you remember?
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- John Storch (TV repairman, Mrs. Galby's lover, death); Mrs. Galby (the Professor's wife); Professor Galby (villain, hypnotist)
- Synopsis
- A story told in second person about the victim a hypnotist picks to do his dirty work for a killing after his wife leaves him for another man.
- Reprints
- in The Haunt of Fear (Arnold Book Company, 1954 series) #1 ([1954])
- in Shock Suspenstories (Russ Cochran, 1981 series) #3 (1981)
-
in Les Meilleures Histoires de... (Les Humanoïdes Associés, 1983 series) #[3] - Suspense (1983) -
in De overlevende en andere verhalen (Zet.El, 1988 series) (1988) - in Shock Suspenstories (Gemstone, 1994 series) #14 (December 1995)
- in The EC Archives: Shock SuspenStories (Dark Horse, 2015 series) #3 (April 2015)
- in The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) #21 - Master Race and Other Stories (March 2018) [Reprinted in black and white.]
-
Indexer Notes
Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-12.
Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.
"Dr. Caligari Krigstein" (as Bernie signed this) is a reference to the 1920 German horror movie, "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari". Krigstein stated that this story was not meant to emulate the film, but it was just that he felt there was a similarity of genre: both very weird and rather expressionistic.
As Ye Sow...
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Carl Wessler
- Pencils
- George Evans (signed as Geo. Evans)
- Inks
- George Evans (signed as Geo. Evans)
- Colors
- Marie Severin
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You stand silently, tensely, in the shadows, and you listen.
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Laird Kimball (husband, death); Nora (wife)
- Synopsis
- A husband hires a contract killer to trail his wife and murder the man she meets. The woman reconsiders her affair, decides to call it off, and returns to her husband. The husband is glad to have her back before he remembers what he's done. He sees the figure in the door and the flash of the gun. The last thing he ever hears is his wife begging him not to die.
- Reprints
- in The Haunt of Fear (Arnold Book Company, 1954 series) #1 ([1954])
- in Shock Suspenstories (Russ Cochran, 1981 series) #3 (1981)
-
in Gysertimen (Interpresse, 1987 series) #4 (13. september 1987) - in Iskalde Grøss (Semic, 1982 series) #8/1992 (uke 51 1992)
- in Shock Suspenstories (Gemstone, 1994 series) #14 (December 1995)
- in The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) #11 - Aces High (December 2014) [Reprinted in black and white.]
- in The EC Archives: Shock SuspenStories (Dark Horse, 2015 series) #3 (April 2015)
-
Indexer Notes
Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-12. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.
Wessler script confirmed per bibliography in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol. 21, No. 3, March 2010. Originally titled "Date with Death".
Cover story.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
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1.
The Orphan
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2.
The Whipping
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3.
Blunderer
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4.
You, Murderer
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5.
As Ye Sow...
This issue was modified by, among others
- Bill Borre
- Nick Caputo
- Pat Conolly
- Craig Delich
- Bill Devine
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Glenn MacKay
- Steffen Nyeland
- Jason Sacks
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Stangas
- Mike White
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