Shock Suspenstories #2

(1981)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

Shock SuspenStories / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Al Feldstein (signed as Feldstein)

Inks

Al Feldstein (signed as Feldstein)

Colors

Marie Severin

Letters

?

Genre

crime

Reprints

• from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #7 (February-March 1953)

Beauty And The Beach! (Table of Contents: 2)

A Crime SuspenStory / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein

Pencils

Jack Kamen (signed)

Inks

Jack Kamen (signed)

Letters

Jim Wroten

Genre

crime

Characters

Mary Milton (John's wife); Ginger Fullman (Percy's wife, death); Cedric Abels (publicity man); Tom Simmens (advertising director); John Milton (villain, plastics factory worker); Percy Fullman (villain)

Synopsis

Two men are frustrated by the vanity of their attractive wives and the fact that they have offers to do some modeling and to participate in four beauty contests. One encases his wife in plastic while wearing her bathing suit, and the other broils his wife alive under forty sun lamps.

Reprints

• from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #7 (February-March 1953)

Indexer Notes

Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-8. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

The Bribe! (Table of Contents: 3)

A Shock SuspenStory / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein

Pencils

Wally Wood (signed as Wood)

Inks

Wally Wood (signed as Wood)

Letters

Jim Wroten

Genre

crime

Characters

Captain Donaldson; Jean Wilson (Frank's daughter); Ted (Jean's fiancee); Frank Wilson (villain, City Fire Inspector, death); Foster (villain, former City Fire Inspector); Nick Cusco (villain, Blue Swan Club owner)

Synopsis

A fire inspector commits suicide when a fire breaks out in a night club where he took a bribe to overlook code violations. He thinks his daughter was killed in the fire with the other patrons because of a photo taken of her earlier that evening, but what he doesn't know is that she and her fiancee have eloped and didn't stay for the show.

Reprints

• from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #7 (February-March 1953)

Keywords

Blue Swan Club

Indexer Notes

Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-8. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

The Mountain Jackal (Table of Contents: 4)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein

Pencils

? (spot illustration)

Inks

? (spot illustration)

Letters

typeset

Genre

crime

Characters

Jenga Shah (a bhisti); Tajik Kabal (villain, Afghan chieftan, death)

Synopsis

For four unfettered years, Chieftan Tajik Kabal has sacked village after village, leaving behind the bodies of headless corpses, after which he planned to build a huge fortress in which to store his ill-gotten gain. Unfortunately for him, he chose the site for the fortress near the location of a British fort......a battled ensued and the chieftan was captured and thrown into a dungeon. But his plan to escape his confines meets with a "cutting" conclusion!

Reprints

• from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #7 (February-March 1953)

Keywords

F Company; Fort Saint Patrick; Hurrum Hills

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

Shock Talk / letters page / 0.66 page (report information)

Letters

typeset

Reprints

• from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #7 (February-March 1953)

Indexer Notes

The Editors present the facts to readers that, with over 500 comic titles appearing on newsstands each month, many companies wre losing lots of money, some folding up shop, others dropping titles. Readers were asked to keep up their support of their favorite EC titles, else the same fate would befall EC.

Infiltration (Table of Contents: 6)

A Science-Fiction SuspenStory / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein

Pencils

Joe Orlando (signed)

Inks

Joe Orlando (signed)

Letters

Jim Wroten

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Phil Brady (Flying Saucer Bureau employee, death); Betty Curtiss (villain, a Martian, Shaw's private secretary); Colonel Wayne Shaw (villain, a Martian, Pentagon Flying Saucer Bureau employee)

Synopsis

This story postulates that a small government agency responsible for ferreting out Martian infiltrators is completely infested with Martian infiltrators except for a sole human whom they gun down.

Reprints

• from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #7 (February-March 1953)

Indexer Notes

Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-8. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

The Small Assassin! (Table of Contents: 7)

A Horror SuspenStory / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Ray Bradbury; Al Feldstein (adaptation)

Pencils

George Evans

Inks

George Evans

Letters

Jim Wroten

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Alice (death); David (Alice's husband, death); Dr. Jeffers; David and Alice's un-named baby (villain, eventual death)

Synopsis

A mother is paranoid that her newborn baby is attempting to kill her. She's right. And the doctor, who brought the child into the world, after finding her husband dead as well, decides to take care of matters......in his own way!

Reprints

• from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #7 (February-March 1953)

Indexer Notes

Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-8. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

Notes and Comments (Table of Contents: 8)

text article / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Bill Spicer; Bhob Stewart; Bill Mason; John Benson

Letters

typeset

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 9)

Shock SuspenStories / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Al Feldstein (signed as Feldstein)

Inks

Al Feldstein (signed as Feldstein)

Colors

Marie Severin

Letters

?

Genre

crime; science fiction

Reprints

• from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #8 (April-May 1953)

Piecemeal (Table of Contents: 10)

A Horror SuspenStory / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein

Pencils

Jack Kamen (signed as Kamen)

Inks

Jack Kamen (signed as Kamen)

Letters

Jim Wroten

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Sidney (a naturalist); Eric (villain, Sidney's brother, Sally's lover, death); Sally (villain, Sidney's wife, death)

Synopsis

A woman plots to give her naturalist husband an overdose of sleeping pills so that she can be with his younger brother. Before he passes, he acquires a large shark and places it in their outdoor pool in which the wife regularly swims.

Reprints

• from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #8 (April-May 1953)

Indexer Notes

Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-8. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

The Assault! (Table of Contents: 11)

A Shock SuspenStory / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein

Pencils

Wally Wood (signed as Wood)

Inks

Wally Wood (signed as Wood)

Letters

Jim Wroten

Genre

crime

Characters

Mrs. Cartwright (Lucy's mother); Mr. Cartwright (Lucy's father); Hodges (town derelict, death); George (villain, Lucy's lover); Lucy Cartwright (villain, death)

Synopsis

Lucy, who was spending hours away from home on a regular basis, comes home one night and claims that old Hodges kidnapped and raped her, when, in fact, she had been with her lover. However, when the old man is killed and Lucy spurns her lover, he does the only honorable thing in his mind: kill her!

Reprints

• from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #8 (April-May 1953)

Indexer Notes

Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-8. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

Suicide (Table of Contents: 12)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein

Pencils

? (spot illustration)

Inks

? (spot illustration)

Letters

typeset

Genre

crime

Characters

un-named old man (janitor, death); Patterson (villain, death)

Synopsis

Patterson had to kill the old janitor after he had broken into a joint in order to keep the man from identifying the criminal. However, Patterson tried to make his crime look like suicide, but the plan backfired when the bullet to the old man's head went into a nearby boiler and scalded the criminal to death!

Reprints

• from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #8 (April-May 1953)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 13)

Shock Talk / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Letters

typeset

Reprints

• from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #8 (April-May 1953)

Indexer Notes

After making an appeal to readers to ask their newsdealers to prominently display EC magazines, the editors publish a variety of letters from the readers, plus a few reacting to the story "Undercover" from issue #6.

The Arrival (Table of Contents: 14)

A Science-Fiction SuspenStory / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein

Pencils

Al Williamson (signed); Frank Frazetta (some panels on pages 4-6); Roy Krenkel (alien architecture)

Inks

Al Williamson (signed); Frank Frazetta (some panels on pages 4-6); Roy Krenkel (alien architecture)

Letters

Jim Wroten

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Grozo (Martian); Zkorl (Martian); Spdork (Martian); unnamed Pharaoh of Egypt (flashback); Christopher Columbus (flashback); Napoleon Bonaparte (flashback); Thomas Edison (flashback); Orville Wright (flashback); Wilbur Wright (flashback)

Synopsis

Ninety-five thousand years after man destroys himself with nuclear weapons, the evolved rats develop space travel and meet their Martian neighbors.

Reprints

• from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #8 (April-May 1953)

Keywords

atomic bomb; Earth Rocket 029; Great Canal of Xnera

Indexer Notes

Krenkel and Frazetta credits added by Craig Delich 2013-9-20.

Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-8. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

Seep No More! (Table of Contents: 15)

A Crime SuspenStory / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein

Pencils

George Evans

Inks

George Evans

Letters

Jim Wroten

Genre

crime

Characters

Mrs. Monahan (Finner's landlady); Irene Lauton (actress, death); two un-named detectives; Mr. Finner (villain, boarder)

Synopsis

Every morning, after a man stabs a woman to death and stashes her body in the attic, he sees a huge bloodstain spreading across his ceiling. He tries to cover it up with paint, but every morning it's there. He even puts a bucket on the floor to collect the blood, and it appears half full to him when the suspicious detectives listen to his confession and tell him there is no stain and no blood in the bucket.

Reprints

• from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #8 (April-May 1953)

Indexer Notes

Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-8. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 16)

Shock SuspenStories / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Al Feldstein (signed as Feldstein)

Inks

Al Feldstein (signed as Feldstein)

Colors

Marie Severin

Letters

typeset

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

un-named State Trooper; un-named bank robber

Reprints

• from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #9 (June-July 1953)

The October Game (Table of Contents: 17)

A Horror SuspenStory / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Ray Bradbury; Al Feldstein (adaptation)

Pencils

Jack Kamen

Inks

Jack Kamen

Letters

Jim Wroten

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Louise Wilder (Mitch's wife); Marion Wilder (Louise and Mitch's daughter, death); Helen; Mitch Wilder (villain)

Synopsis

A madman who hates his wife dismembers his daughter and passes around her body parts to children in a darkened cellar on Halloween.

Reprints

• from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #9 (June-July 1953)

Indexer Notes

Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-9. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

Came the Dawn! (Table of Contents: 18)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein

Pencils

Wally Wood (signed as Wood)

Inks

Wally Wood (signed as Wood)

Letters

Jim Wroten

Genre

crime

Characters

Cathy Maxwell (death); Bob Ames; un-named criminally insane girl (villain)

Synopsis

A man thinks that the girl he has met in the woods may be a dangerous escaped lunatic because she matches the description, but his girlfriend ends up meeting a grim fate as the latest victim of the true escapee.

Reprints

• from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #9 (June-July 1953)

Indexer Notes

Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-9. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

Surgery! (Table of Contents: 19)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein

Pencils

Marie Severin (spot illustration)

Inks

Marie Severin (spot illustration)

Letters

typeset

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Doc Spender (un-licensed doctor); Bat Parker (villain); Danny (villain)

Synopsis

In a Police Hospital room, criminal Bat Parker, seriously wounded in a gunfight with the Police, needs a gangrene-laden leg amputated before he dies. The only way this quack would operate was if he were drunk. That was the easy part......the hard part was Bat discovering that the doc had cut off the wrong leg!

Reprints

• from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #9 (June-July 1953)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 20)

Shock Talk / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Letters

typeset

Reprints

• from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #9 (June-July 1953)

Indexer Notes

The Editors print a variety of letters from readers, many of which centered around the Ray Bradbury adaptation, "The Small Assassin" from issue #7.

The Meddlers! (Table of Contents: 21)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein

Pencils

Joe Orlando (signed)

Inks

Joe Orlando (signed)

Letters

Jim Wroten

Genre

crime

Characters

Dr. Conrad Rivers (research chemist, death); Mr. Kearns (groery store owner, death); the widow Jones (death); Jed (death); Enos (death); Martha (death)

Synopsis

The folk of a small town attempt to drive away a doctor who is attempting to create life in a test tube. They smash his equipment while he suffers heart failure. His failed experiments combine in the sewer to create a blob-like living mass which devours the townsfolk.

Reprints

• from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #9 (June-July 1953)

Keywords

Millville

Indexer Notes

Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-9. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

Carrion Death! (Table of Contents: 22)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein

Pencils

Reed Crandall (signed)

Inks

Reed Crandall (signed)

Letters

Jim Wroten

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

un-named State Trooper (death); un-named bank robber (villain, death)

Synopsis

A man handcuffed to policeman is trying to make his way through the desert on foot. He realizes that he has to separate himself from the body but has nothing sharp to cut off the dead man's hand with. He decides to lie down and allow the vultures to strip the corpse, but when he regains consciousness the vultures have already started in on him as well.

Reprints

• from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #9 (June-July 1953)

Indexer Notes

Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-9. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 23)

Shock SuspenStories / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Jack Kamen (signed as Kamen)

Inks

Jack Kamen (signed as Kamen)

Colors

Marie Severin

Letters

typeset

Genre

crime

Reprints

• from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #10 (August-September 1953)

The Sacrifice (Table of Contents: 24)

A Crime SuspenStory / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein

Pencils

Jack Kamen (signed as Kamen)

Inks

Jack Kamen (signed as Kamen)

Letters

Jim Wroten

Genre

crime

Characters

Jonathan Fielding (death); Paul Nichols (villain, witness to Jonathan's murder, blackmailer); Gloria Fielding (villain, Jonathan's wife); James Reed (villain, insurance salesman, death)

Synopsis

A woman manipulates a man into killing her husband by pretending to be in love with him, while she and her lover work out a scheme whereby he claims to be a witness to the killing and blackmails the two of them into letting him sleep with the woman. She carries on this act, pretending to be progressively degraded and begging for salvation, until the dupe finally writes out a confession implicating only himself in the murder and swallows a bottle of poison. She then gleefully regales the dying man the details of the con.

Reprints

• from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #10 (August-September 1953)

Indexer Notes

Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-9. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

Cover story.

...So Shall Ye Reap! (Table of Contents: 25)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein

Pencils

Wally Wood (signed as Wood)

Inks

Wally Wood (signed as Wood)

Letters

Jim Wroten

Genre

crime

Characters

Murray Vorhees; Wilma Vorhees; Kenneth Vorhees (villain, the Vorhee's son, death); Hicky (villain, gang member)

Synopsis

A young man sitting in the electric chair reflects on the events of his youth while his parents are sitting at home do the same. The parents see their past actions in a positive light, but their son sees things from a different perspective.

Reprints

• from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #10 (August-September 1953)

Indexer Notes

Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-9. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

Story involves use of drugs.

Operation! (Table of Contents: 26)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein

Pencils

Marie Severin (spot illustration)

Inks

Marie Severin (spot illustration)

Letters

typeset

Genre

crime

Characters

un-named anaesthetist; un-named Chief Surgeon; un-named Generalissimo (villain, death); un-named members of the Secret Police (villains)

Synopsis

A dictator is in the operating room, having gas administered as usual, with the doctor ready to operate. The members of the Secret Police were all around the room, making sure the Leader was safe. Suddenly, aman in a bowler hat came in and grabbed the anaestheist, claiming he was trying to kill the Leader, and not realizing that this led the gas being accidently turned on full.....the end result: the Leader blew up!

Reprints

• from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #10 (August-September 1953)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 27)

Shock Talk / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Letters

typeset

Reprints

• from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #10 (August-September 1953)

Indexer Notes

The Editors publish a variety of letters from readers commenting on the story, "The Assault", from issue #8, plus a few other letters.

Home Run! (Table of Contents: 28)

A Science-Fiction SuspenStory / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein

Pencils

Joe Orlando (signed)

Inks

Joe Orlando (signed)

Letters

Jim Wroten

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Doctor Muller (atomic scientist, absorbed into a Martian); Doctor Caxton (Muller's supervisor); a Martian (villain)

Synopsis

Astronauts are approaching Mars when one of their number admits to them that he is really a Martian who designed the rocket in order to return home after his crashed. The other astronauts think he has lost his mind and attempt to seize his gun, which discharges, killing him. They land on Mars and notice that the body has regained its true form and realize the creature was telling them the truth and that hostile Martians are now waiting outside to absorb their bodies and return to Earth as Martian infiltrators.

Reprints

• from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #10 (August-September 1953)

Indexer Notes

Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-10. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

Sweetie-Pie (Table of Contents: 29)

A Horror SuspenStory / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein

Pencils

Reed Crandall

Inks

Reed Crandall

Letters

Jim Wroten

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

Philip Garson (reporter for the Consolidated Press Service, death); Sally Garson (Philip's wife, death); un-named editor of the Consolidated Press Service; O'Hara (State Patrol officer); Eddie (Consolidated Press reporter); a Ghoul (villain)

Synopsis

Philip, a reporter, is put on a story involving people who have been involved in car wrecks and the bodies displaying evidence of puncture marks on their throats and all blood drained from their bodies. The problem is: not all of the victims were found....just 4 of 16 bodies total. Soon, Philip and his new bride are involved in an accident, and he learns the tru fatye of all the victims: a ghoul has set up roadside hazards to procure fresh meat.

Reprints

• from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #10 (August-September 1953)

Keywords

Consolidated Press Service

Indexer Notes

Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-10. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 30)

Shock SuspenStories / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Johnny Craig (signed)

Inks

Johnny Craig (signed)

Colors

Marie Severin

Letters

typeset

Genre

crime

Reprints

• from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #11 (October-November 1953)

The Tryst! (Table of Contents: 31)

A Crime SuspenStory / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Johnny Craig

Pencils

Johnny Craig (signed)

Inks

Johnny Craig (signed)

Letters

Jim Wroten

Genre

crime

Characters

Julie Adams [aka Julie Hendricks] (a secretary); Mr. Cowles (Hendrick's employee); Mr. Farnsworth (client of Hendricks, death); Tommy (an orphan, death); John Hendricks (villain, Julie's boss and later husband)

Synopsis

A man is so jealous of his wife that he murders a boy from the local orphanage that she has been spending time with in the woods.

Reprints

• from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #11 (October-November 1953)

Indexer Notes

Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-11. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

In Gratitude... (Table of Contents: 32)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein

Pencils

Wally Wood (signed as Wood)

Inks

Wally Wood (signed as Wood)

Letters

Jim Wroten

Genre

crime

Characters

Marcia Norris; Andrew Norris (Marcia's husband); Joey Norris (war hero, the Norris' son); un-named town Mayor; Hank (Jeoy's Army pal, death, flashback)

Synopsis

A Korean war vet berates his hometown because his black friend, who threw himself on a grenade to save his life, wasn't good enough to be buried in the town cemetery.

Reprints

• from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #11 (October-November 1953)

Keywords

Greendale

Indexer Notes

Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-11. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

Deadbeat! (Table of Contents: 33)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein

Pencils

Marie Severin (spot illustration)

Inks

Marie Severin (spot illustration)

Letters

typeset

Genre

adventure

Characters

Mrs. Clark (the doctor's wife); Dr. Curtis Clark; Burt Devine (Mrs. Clark's brother, death)

Synopsis

Dr. Clark was furious with his wife, because she allowed her worthless brother to stay at their home and sponge off of them. One night, Burt, hungry for a midnight snack, and wanting to avoid his sister's cheap husband, decides to forgo the kitchen and try to find something to eat in the greenhouse. He does.....with fatal results!

Reprints

• from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #11 (October-November 1953)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 34)

Shock Talk / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Letters

typeset

Reprints

• from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #11 (October-November 1953)

Indexer Notes

The Editors push readers to join the new E.C. Fan-Addict Club.

The Space Suitors (Table of Contents: 35)

A Science-Fiction SuspenStory / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein

Pencils

Reed Crandall (signed)

Inks

Reed Crandall (signed)

Letters

Jim Wroten

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Milton Griffith (death); Wanda Griffith (villain, wife of Milton, death); Donald Conrad (villain, Wanda's lover, death)

Synopsis

A woman and her lover plan to murder her husband out in space, but he outsmarts them by giving a signal to the rocket to blast off when he shot so that his wife and her lover will suffocate on the barren planetoid.

Reprints

• from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #11 (October-November 1953)

Indexer Notes

Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-11. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

...Three's a Crowd (Table of Contents: 36)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein

Pencils

Jack Kamen

Inks

Jack Kamen

Letters

Jim Wroten

Genre

crime

Characters

Della (Alan's wife, death); Andy (friend of Della and Alan, death); Alan (Della's husband)

Synopsis

A jealous husband sends his wife and his best friend to their deaths when their suspicious behavior makes him leap to the conclusion that they are having an affair, but they are, in reality, planning an anniversary surprise.

Reprints

• from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #11 (October-November 1953)

Indexer Notes

Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-11. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

Cover story.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 37)

Shock SuspenStories / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Al Feldstein (signed as Feldstein)

Inks

Al Feldstein (signed as Feldstein)

Colors

Marie Severin

Letters

typeset

Genre

crime

Characters

Eddie

Reprints

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

Indexer Notes

Drug story cover.

Deadline (Table of Contents: 38)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein

Pencils

Jack Kamen (signed)

Inks

Jack Kamen (signed)

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)

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 Monkey (Table of Contents: 39)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein

Pencils

Joe Orlando (signed)

Inks

Joe Orlando (signed)

Letters

Jim Wroten

Genre

crime

Characters

Sue Minner (drug user); Mr. Clements (Eddie's boss); Eddie's un-named father (death); Eddie's un-named mother; un-named 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.

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.

Last Laugh! (Table of Contents: 40)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein

Pencils

Marie Severin (spot illustration)

Inks

Marie Severin (spot illustration)

Letters

typeset

Genre

crime

Characters

Major Clagg [aka "Chuckles"] (airplane pilot, death)

Synopsis

Major Clagg was a parachute corps pilot that liked to take real risks when parachuting from a plane, and every feat he accomplished was accompanied by a practical joke of some kind. His crowning gag was to drop a life-sized doll from a plane before he himself parachuted out. Unfortunately, the Major forgot one important thing during that final exploit: to don his parachute!

Reprints

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

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 41)

Shock Talk / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Letters

typeset

Reprints

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

Indexer Notes

The Editors publish a series of letters from readers, who responded to the stories found within issue #10.

The Kidnapper (Table of Contents: 42)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein

Pencils

Reed Crandall (signed)

Inks

Reed Crandall (signed)

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)

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.

Fall Guy (Table of Contents: 43)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein

Pencils

Wally Wood (signed as Wood)

Inks

Wally Wood (signed as Wood)

Letters

Jim Wroten

Genre

crime

Characters

Helen (Danny's girl); un-named 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)

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.

Russ Cochran Presents the Complete EC Library (Table of Contents: 44) (Expand) /

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

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 45)

Shock SuspenStories / illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Al Feldstein (signed as Feldstein)

Inks

Al Feldstein (signed as Feldstein)

Colors

Marie Severin

Letters

typeset

Genre

horror-suspense

Characters

un-named State Trooper; un-named bank robber

Reprints

• from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #9 (June-July 1953)

Indexer Notes

On back cover.