(1994)

Gemstone, 1994 Series
Price
9.95 USD; 13.70 CAD
Pages
184
On-sale Date
1994-12-06
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Gemstone Publishing
Brand
An Entertaining EC Comic
Editing
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Shock SuspenStories / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)
Inks
Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Genre
crime
Characters
Suzy Carson
Reprints

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

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

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

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

Pencils
Wallace Wood
Inks
Wallace Wood
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Genre
crime
Reprints

Dead Right! (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
Albert B. Feldstein
Pencils
Jack Kamen
Inks
Jack Kamen
Colors
Marie Severin
Letters
Jim Wroten

Genre
crime
Characters
Madame Vorna (fortune teller); J. Flag Marson (prison warden, mention only); Mr. Clayton (Cathy's boss); Cathy Finch Marno (office clerk, waitress, death); Charles Marno (villain, Cathy's husband, death)
Synopsis
A fortune teller predicts to a woman that a man who wants to marry her, but she finds repulsive, is going to inherit twenty-five thousand dollars and die shortly afterward, so she marries him. What the fortune teller doesn't tell her is that she wins the twenty-five thousand dollars as a prize, and when she tries to walk out on the slob, he murders her and inherits her money then dies in the electric chair.
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Under Cover! (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
Albert B. Feldstein
Pencils
Wallace Wood
Inks
Wallace Wood
Colors
Marie Severin
Letters
Jim Wroten

Genre
horror-suspense
Characters
Suzy Carson (death); Ed Fenton (newspaper editor); Sam Masters (newspaperman, death); Grand Master of the Black Vigilante Society (villain); two un-named phony FBI agents (villains); un-named Society members (villains)
Synopsis
When Sam Masters sees a secret society whip a girl to death he tries to contact the F.B.I. before they can catch him.
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

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

Script
Russ Cochran
Pencils
Bernie Krigstein
Inks
Bernie Krigstein
Letters
typeset

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Indexer Notes

Letters from D. A. Johnson, Brian Moody, Oat Willy, Andy Terwilleger, Joe MacAvoy, Dan Kroha, Dave Hall.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6)

The Crypt-Keeper's Page of Fine Arts / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
Russ Cochran
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Letters
typeset

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Indexer Notes

Prose from Ronald S. Rogowski, Kevin Otten; fan art from George Hopper, John David Alward, Peter A. Stone II.

Not So Tough! (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
Albert B. Feldstein
Pencils
Joe Orlando
Inks
Joe Orlando
Colors
Marie Severin
Letters
Jim Wroten

Genre
science fiction
Characters
Lieutenant Robert Arden (Astro-Navigator, later Rocket-Man 3rd Class, death); Sergeant Coogan (ship crewman, death); Seeley (crewman, death); Vice-Commander Philip Forbes (death); Commander Horace Bergman (villain, death)
Synopsis
A space commander who is as tough as nails on his crew is reduced to soft putty in the grip of a large gravitational force.
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Sugar 'N Spice 'N... (Table of Contents: 8)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
Albert B. Feldstein (co-plot, script); Bill Gaines (co-plot)
Pencils
Graham Ingels
Inks
Graham Ingels
Colors
Marie Severin
Letters
Jim Wroten

Genre
horror-suspense
Characters
Johnny (Margaret's brother, death); Margaret (Johnny's sister, death); a witch [aka The Crab] (villain)
Synopsis
A brother and sister lose their ball in the yard of an old woman whom they referred to as "The Old Crab". She eventually gave them the ball back, but warned them to stay away. On Halloween night, the two play a prank on this woman, with fatal results!
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 9)

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

Pencils
Albert B. Feldstein
Inks
Albert B. Feldstein
Colors
Marie Severin
Letters
?

Genre
crime
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Beauty and the Beach! (Table of Contents: 10)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
Albert B. Feldstein
Pencils
Jack Kamen
Inks
Jack Kamen
Colors
Marie Severin
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.
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The Bribe! (Table of Contents: 11)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
Albert B. Feldstein
Pencils
Wallace Wood
Inks
Wallace Wood
Colors
Marie Severin
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.
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 12)

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

Script
Russ Cochran
Pencils
Jack Kamen; Wally Wood
Inks
Jack Kamen; Wally Wood
Letters
typeset

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Indexer Notes

Letters from John Miller, Warren Standiford, Steven J. Snodgrass, Tom Robb, Robert Tone.

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

The Crypt-Keeper's Page of Fine Arts / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
Russ Cochran
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Letters
typeset

Reprints

Indexer Notes

Fan art by Mike Husted, Benoit Trioux, Alpha Raindance, Emily Haddad, Mike Sholtis, Prof. J. B. Lee (with letter).

Infiltration (Table of Contents: 14)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
Albert B. Feldstein
Pencils
Joe Orlando
Inks
Joe Orlando
Colors
Marie Severin
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.
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The Small Assassin! (Table of Contents: 15)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
Ray Bradbury; Albert B. Feldstein (adaptation)
Pencils
George Evans
Inks
George Evans
Colors
Marie Severin
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!
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 16)

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

Pencils
Albert B. Feldstein (signed)
Inks
Albert B. Feldstein (signed)
Colors
Marie Severin
Letters
?

Genre
crime
Reprints

Piecemeal (Table of Contents: 17)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
Albert B. Feldstein
Pencils
Jack Kamen
Inks
Jack Kamen
Colors
Marie Severin
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.
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The Assault! (Table of Contents: 18)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
Albert B. Feldstein
Pencils
Wallace Wood
Inks
Wallace Wood
Colors
Marie Severin
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!
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 19)

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

Script
Russ Cochran
Letters
typeset

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

The Crypt-Keeper's Page of Fine Arts / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
Russ Cochran
Pencils
Derek Malone; Andrew T. Raub; Kurt Krause; Elliott Kazan
Inks
Derek Malone; Andrew T. Raub; Kurt Krause; Elliott Kazan
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Genre
crime; horror-suspense
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Letters from Andrew T. Raub (with illustration), Frank X. Mattson III.

Suicide (Table of Contents: 21)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Script
Albert B. Feldstein
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!
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The Arrival (Table of Contents: 22)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
Al Feldstein (credited as Albert B. Feldstein)
Pencils
Al Williamson
Inks
Al Williamson
Colors
Marie Severin
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.
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Seep No More! (Table of Contents: 23)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
Albert B. Feldstein
Pencils
George Evans
Inks
George Evans
Colors
Marie Severin
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.
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 24)

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

Pencils
Albert B. Feldstein (signed)
Inks
Albert B. Feldstein (signed)
Colors
Marie Severin
Letters
typeset

Genre
horror-suspense
Reprints

The October Game (Table of Contents: 25)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
Ray Bradbury; Albert B. Feldstein (adaptation)
Pencils
Jack Kamen
Inks
Jack Kamen
Colors
Marie Severin
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.
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Came the Dawn! (Table of Contents: 26)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
Albert B. Feldstein
Pencils
Wallace Wood
Inks
Wallace Wood
Colors
Marie Severin
Letters
Jim Wroten

Genre
horror-suspense
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.
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 27)

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

Script
Russ Cochran
Pencils
? (photograph); Reed Crandall
Inks
? (photograph); Reed Crandall
Letters
typeset

Genre
crime; horror-suspense
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Letters from Mark Jarasitis, John Miller, Warren Standiford, Kevin Koleyan

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 28)

The Crypt-Keeper's Page of Fine Arts / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
Russ Cochran
Pencils
Jesse Landrum; William Pearson; Jim Bonner
Inks
Jesse Landrum; William Pearson; Jim Bonner
Letters
typeset

Genre
horror-suspense; science fiction
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Letters from Jesse Landrum (with illustration), Frank X. Mattson III, Jim Bonner (with illustration)

The Meddlers! (Table of Contents: 29)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
Albert B. Feldstein
Pencils
Joe Orlando
Inks
Joe Orlando
Colors
Marie Severin
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.
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Carrion Death (Table of Contents: 30)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
Albert B. Feldstein
Pencils
Reed Crandall
Inks
Reed Crandall
Colors
Marie Severin
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.
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 31)

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

Pencils
Jack Kamen (signed)
Inks
Jack Kamen (signed)
Colors
Marie Severin
Letters
typeset

Genre
horror-suspense
Reprints

The Sacrifice (Table of Contents: 32)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
Albert B. Feldstein
Pencils
Jack Kamen
Inks
Jack Kamen
Colors
Marie Severin
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.
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...So shall ye reap! (Table of Contents: 33)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
Albert B. Feldstein
Pencils
Wallace Wood
Inks
Wallace Wood
Colors
Marie Severin
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.
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 34)

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

Script
Russ Cochran
Pencils
Joe Orlando
Inks
Joe Orlando
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Genre
crime
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Letters from Jim Davis, Warren Standiford.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 35)

The Crypt-Keeper's Page of Fine Arts / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
Russ Cochran
Pencils
Sam Rowley; Alex Bebout; ?; Rick Olsen
Inks
Sam Rowley; Alex Bebout; ?; Rick Olsen
Letters
typeset; Sam Rowley; Rick Olsen

Genre
horror-suspense; science fiction
Reprints

Operation! (Table of Contents: 36)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Script
Albert B. Feldstein
Pencils
Marie Severin
Inks
Marie Severin
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!
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Home Run! (Table of Contents: 37)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
Albert B. Feldstein
Pencils
Joe Orlando
Inks
Joe Orlando
Colors
Marie Severin
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.
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Sweetie-Pie (Table of Contents: 38)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
Albert B. Feldstein
Pencils
Reed Crandall
Inks
Reed Crandall
Colors
Marie Severin
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 true fate of all the victims: a ghoul has set up roadside hazards to procure fresh meat.
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 39) (Expand) /

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

Collect Them All! (Table of Contents: 40) (Expand) /

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

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Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Shock SuspenStories
  2. 1. ["Just think!!"]
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Shock SuspenStories
  4. 3. Dead Right!
  5. 4. Under Cover!
  6. 5. [no title indexed]
    Shock Talk
  7. 6. [no title indexed]
    The Crypt-Keeper's Page of Fine Arts
  8. 7. Not So Tough!
  9. 8. Sugar 'N Spice 'N...
  10. 9. [no title indexed]
    Shock SuspenStories
  11. 10. Beauty and the Beach!
  12. 11. The Bribe!
  13. 12. [no title indexed]
    Shock Talk
  14. 13. [no title indexed]
    The Crypt-Keeper's Page of Fine Arts
  15. 14. Infiltration
  16. 15. The Small Assassin!
  17. 16. [no title indexed]
    Shock SuspenStories
  18. 17. Piecemeal
  19. 18. The Assault!
  20. 19. [no title indexed]
    Shock Talk
  21. 20. [no title indexed]
    The Crypt-Keeper's Page of Fine Arts
  22. 21. Suicide
  23. 22. The Arrival
  24. 23. Seep No More!
  25. 24. [no title indexed]
    Shock SuspenStories
  26. 25. The October Game
  27. 26. Came the Dawn!
  28. 27. [no title indexed]
    Shock Talk
  29. 28. [no title indexed]
    The Crypt-Keeper's Page of Fine Arts
  30. 29. The Meddlers!
  31. 30. Carrion Death
  32. 31. [no title indexed]
    Shock SuspenStories
  33. 32. The Sacrifice
  34. 33. ...So shall ye reap!
  35. 34. [no title indexed]
    Shock Talk
  36. 35. [no title indexed]
    The Crypt-Keeper's Page of Fine Arts
  37. 36. Operation!
  38. 37. Home Run!
  39. 38. Sweetie-Pie
  40. 39. ["What?!! ...You don't have the complete Crypt?"]
  41. 40. Collect Them All!
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Brian Dobbelaere
  • Michael Hoskin
  • Hunter Johnson
  • Jim Stangas