(1981)
Russ Cochran,
1981 Series
- Volume
- 3
- Price
- [none]
- Pages
- 212
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Russ Cochran, Publisher
- Brand
-
EC An Entertaining Comic
- Editing
- Russ Cochran
[no title indexed]
Shock SuspenStories / cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Jack Kamen (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Kamen (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- crime
- Reprints
-
from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #13 (February-March 1954)
-
[no title indexed]
Shock SuspenStories / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Jack Kamen (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Kamen (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- crime
- Reprints
- from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #13 (February-March 1954)
-
Only Skin-Deep
Shock SuspenStories / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- crime
- Synopsis
- A man comes out of an car accident with amnesia and plastic surgery to reconstruct extensive facial burns to be met by a woman who claims to be his lover and that the two of them plotted to murder her husband for his insurance money. He travels to a cabin with her and when he slips and bumps his head, his memory returns. He strangles the woman because he recalls that he is not her lover but actually her husband who had overheard their plans to kill him and got the jump on the other man and switched clothes before getting caught in the fire he set in the car's gas tank.
- Reprints
- from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #13 (February-March 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.
Blood-Brothers
Shock SuspenStories / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Al Feldstein
- Pencils
- Wally Wood (signed as Wood)
- Inks
- Wally Wood (signed as Wood)
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Dr. Falk (coroner); Ella (Sid's wife); Henry Williams (death); Sarah Williams (Henry's wife, death); Mr. Harley (Henry's employer); Jed Martin; George (a farmer, flashback); Sid (villain)
- Synopsis
- A bigot finds out that his life was saved as a child by a blood transfusion from a black man.
- Reprints
- from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #13 (February-March 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.
Proposal
text story / 1 page
- Script
- Al Feldstein
- Pencils
- Marie Severin (spot illustration)
- Inks
- Marie Severin (spot illustration)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- crime
- Reprints
- from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #13 (February-March 1954)
-
Upon Reflection
Shock SuspenStories / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- crime
- Synopsis
- A boxer feels guilty for killing a man in the ring when the man's widow screams at him that he's a 'beast'. He perceives that his hands and face are taking on the appearance of a gorilla but a psychologist tells him that it's all in his mind. He sees a mirror on the street and resolves to look into it. He gaps in horror and then withdraws the pistol he had in his jacket to shoot himself. The store owner is puzzled by the suicide and tells the nearby police officer that he had recently purchased a trick mirror to spruce up business.
- Reprints
- from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #13 (February-March 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.
Squeeze Play
Shock SuspenStories / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Al Feldstein
- Pencils
- Frank Frazetta (signed)
- Inks
- Frank Frazetta (signed); Al Williamson
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Characters
- Cora (Harry's girl, death); Sue; Bea; Nan; Ella; Janet; Jimmy; Arnie; Melvin; Harry [aka Johnny] (villain, death)
- Synopsis
- A young man gets a girl pregnant and then murders her by throwing her out of a roller coaster car. The other riders, who hear her screams for help, summon the Police. The killer then bolts and buries his incriminating clothes beneath the beach's boardwalk and tries to get a ride home with some girls. They soon cajole him into the surf, despite his protests that he can't swim, but quickly abandon him when they see their boyfriends arrive.
- Reprints
- from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #13 (February-March 1954)
-
Indexer Notes
Due to deadline problems, Williamson, who pawned this story over to Frazetta, was asked to finish off a few of the panels.
Williamson credit added by Craig Delich 2013-10-2.
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.
[no title indexed]
Shock Talk / letters page / 1 page
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
A previously unpublished letters page which was prepared for Shock Suspenstories #10 but went unused.
[no title indexed]
Shock SuspenStories / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Pencils
- Wally Wood (signed as Wood)
- Inks
- Wally Wood (signed as Wood)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- crime
- Reprints
- from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #14 (April-May 1954)
-
The Orphan
Shock SuspenStories / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- crime
- 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
- from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #14 (April-May 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 Whipping
Shock SuspenStories / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Al Feldstein; Jack Oleck ?
- Pencils
- Wally Wood (signed as Wood)
- Inks
- Wally Wood (signed as Wood)
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Amy (Ed's daughter, death); Ed's wife; Louis Martinez; Vigilante Society [Ed; Willie; Phil; George; other un-named 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
- from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #14 (April-May 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.
Blunderer
text story / 1 page
- Script
- Al Feldstein
- Pencils
- Marie Severin (spot illustration)
- Inks
- Marie Severin (spot illustration)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- crime
- Reprints
- from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #14 (April-May 1954)
-
You, Murderer
Shock SuspenStories / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- crime
- Synopsis
- A story told in first person about the victim a hypnotist picks to do his dirty work for a killing after his wife leaves him for another man.
- Reprints
- from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #14 (April-May 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.
As Ye Sow...
Shock SuspenStories / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Carl Wessler ?
- Pencils
- George Evans (signed as Geo. Evans)
- Inks
- George Evans (signed as Geo. Evans)
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- 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
- from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #14 (April-May 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.
[no title indexed]
Shock SuspenStories / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Jack Kamen (signed as Kamen)
- Inks
- Jack Kamen (signed as Kamen)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #15 (June-July 1954)
-
Raw Deal
Shock SuspenStories / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- crime
- Synopsis
- A man cannibalizes his new bride in order to survive being stranded at sea.
- Reprints
- from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #15 (June-July 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 Confidant
Shock SuspenStories / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Al Feldstein; Jack Oleck ?
- Pencils
- Wally Wood (signed as Wood)
- Inks
- Wally Wood (signed as Wood)
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Jimmy; Jimmy's priest (death); a mob (villains)
- Synopsis
- A mob beats to death a priest when the man refuses to betray the confession of a killer.
- Reprints
- from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #15 (June-July 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.
Oleck script credit per "Came the Dawn" volume, added by Craig Delich.
Slaughter!
text story / 1 page
- Script
- Al Feldstein
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- crime
- Reprints
- from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #15 (June-July 1954)
-
For Cryin' Out Loud!
Shock SuspenStories / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- crime
- Synopsis
- A man's conscience bothers him so much after he strangles a woman that he has an uncontrollable urge to confess the deed to anyone in earshot.
- Reprints
- from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #15 (June-July 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.
Well Trained
Shock SuspenStories / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Carl Wessler
- Pencils
- George Evans (signed)
- Inks
- George Evans (signed)
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Sergeant Tom Gibson (Police detective); Mary Gibson (Tom's wife, death); Bill (Policeman); Mike Ferris (villain, murderer, death)
- Synopsis
- A detective arrests the man burglar who murdered his wife when she surprised him, and, after a brutal beating that hospitalizes him, continues to hound him in the hospital about the death he will receive in the electric chair. The man fixates on his vengeance to such a great deal that the killer flees the hospital and is struck by a subway car. The detective is tortured by the uncertainty of whether the killer burned by the third rail as he should have or if the train struck him first.
- Reprints
- from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #15 (June-July 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.
[no title indexed]
Shock SuspenStories / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- George Evans (signed)
- Inks
- George Evans (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #16 (August-September 1954)
-
...My Brother's Keeper
Shock SuspenStories / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Carl Wessler
- Pencils
- George Evans (signed)
- Inks
- George Evans (signed)
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- Genre
- adventure; crime
- Characters
- Frank Doran (siamese twin brother of Mark, death); Mr. Doran (Mark and Frank's father, death, in flashback); Mrs. Doran (Mark and Frank's mother, death, in flashback); Gloria Milgram (in flashback); Alice [Benson] Doran (Frank's wife, death, in flashback); Mark Doran (villain, siamese twin of Frank, death)
- Synopsis
- An evil Siamese twin murders his brother's wife, but the state does not execute him as it would mean the death of the good one. The good one finally commits suicide to halt the evil of the other.
- Reprints
- from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #16 (August-September 1954)
-
Indexer Notes
Most of the story is told in flashback.
The Hazing
Shock SuspenStories / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- crime
- Synopsis
- A college student wants to join a frat so he makes up a story about a professor they don't like being a communist in order to get him fired.
- Reprints
- from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #16 (August-September 1954)
-
Slob!
text story / 1 page
- Script
- Al Feldstein
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- crime
- Reprints
- from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #16 (August-September 1954)
-
A Kind of Justice
Shock SuspenStories / comic story / 8 pages
- Characters
- Shirley Hansen; Helen Hansen (mother); John Hansen (father); Sheriff Paul Judson; Eddie Nichols; Deputy Russ Ford
- Synopsis
- A mob beat a vagrant to death for the rape of a sixteen year old girl that the town sheriff has been violating.
- Reprints
- from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #16 (August-September 1954)
-
The Pen Is Mightier
Shock SuspenStories / comic story / 7 pages
- Synopsis
- A newspaper columnist murders his gangster friend to get his wife and frames an innocent man for the crime through the power of his words.
- Reprints
- from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #16 (August-September 1954)
-
[no title indexed]
Shock SuspenStories / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #17 (October-November 1954)
-
4-Sided Triangle
Shock SuspenStories / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A farmer tries to molest a retarded girl he keeps to work on the farm as a servant. She tells him that she's got a boyfriend that she sees in the evening. She goes out into the field to the scarecrow. The farmer gets the idea of disguising himself as the scarecrow so he can get what he wants from the girl. The farmer's wife is awakened by the sound of their love-making and goes out to the field with a pitchfork. When the girl tells the wife about her boyfriend, the wife tries to demonstrate to her that it's only straw by repeatedly stabbing the scarecrow with the pitchfork.
- Reprints
- from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #17 (October-November 1954)
-
In Character
Shock SuspenStories / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- Boris Karloff murders all of his Hollywood contacts after he has been typecast in pictures.
- Reprints
- from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #17 (October-November 1954)
-
Timetable
text story / 1 page
- Script
- Al Feldstein
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- crime
- Reprints
- from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #17 (October-November 1954)
-
The Assassin
Shock SuspenStories / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Carl Wessler
- Pencils
- George Evans (signed as Geo. Evans)
- Inks
- George Evans (signed as Geo. Evans)
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- unnamed actor (death); unnamed assassin (villain)
- Synopsis
- An assassin unknowingly pursues his mark to the backstage of a theater and kills the man just before the curtain rises. It turns out that the assassin has walked in on the opening scene of a play about President William McKinley and the man who assassinated him!
- Reprints
- from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #17 (October-November 1954)
-
The Operation
Shock SuspenStories / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- crime
- Synopsis
- A diamond thief surgeon cuts open his two goons to smuggle diamonds into the country in their bodies. When he gets a big one worth two hundred fifty thousand he tells the men he will operate on both of them, but place the diamond in only one so that they will not be tempted to disappear. The doctor sends them a note saying he will be delayed because he knows that this will play on their greed and they will turn on each other. They kill each other, but the doctor did not place the stone in either of them but himself.
- Reprints
- from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #17 (October-November 1954)
-
[no title indexed]
Shock SuspenStories / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #18 (December 1954 - January 1955)
-
Cadillac Fever
Shock SuspenStories / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Carl Wessler
- Pencils
- George Evans (signed)
- Inks
- George Evans (signed)
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Clyde Wilkes (death); Mrs. Wilkes (death); Mr. Evans; Jeb Wyler; Sheriff Hoyt; Ruthie (villain, Wilke's daughter)
- Synopsis
- A poor girl knows her father will never be able to afford to buy a Cadillac, so she murders her mother and swears in court that the father did it, so after he is executed he gets his long sought after ride in a Cadillac hearse.
- Reprints
- from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #18 (December 1954 - January 1955)
- in The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) #11 - Aces High (December 2014)
-
The Trap
Shock SuspenStories / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- crime
- Synopsis
- A husband is betrayed by his wife and funeral director when they plot to commit fraud to collect on his life insurance policy for his own murder. They plan to make him appear to be the victim of a mugging and then disappear in South America for a year. When his wife doesn't show with the money, he returns and they have him arrested and he ends up hanging for his own murder.
- Reprints
- from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #18 (December 1954 - January 1955)
-
A Special Editorial
text article / 1 page
- Script
- Al Feldstein
- Letters
- typeset
- Reprints
- from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #18 (December 1954 - January 1955)
-
Indexer Notes
Appeal to readers to write the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency.
Blowhard
text story / 1 page
- Reprints
- from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #18 (December 1954 - January 1955)
-
In the Bag
Shock SuspenStories / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A cop kills a man with a bowling ball in a bag thinking it's a head.
- Reprints
- from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #18 (December 1954 - January 1955)
-
Rundown
Shock SuspenStories / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- crime
- Synopsis
- A man commits murder attempting to acquire enough money to win back his wife's affections. He doesn't know that she and her lover have already made a plot to run him down. When they manage to hit him with the car, they are pleased to find that his wallet is flush with cash.
- Reprints
- from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #18 (December 1954 - January 1955)
-
[no title indexed]
Shock SuspenStories / illustration / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- George Evans (signed)
- Inks
- George Evans (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- horror-suspense
- Reprints
- from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #16 (August-September 1954)
-
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Shock SuspenStories -
1.
[no title indexed]
Shock SuspenStories -
2.
Only Skin-Deep
Shock SuspenStories -
3.
Blood-Brothers
Shock SuspenStories -
4.
Proposal
-
5.
Upon Reflection
Shock SuspenStories -
6.
Squeeze Play
Shock SuspenStories -
7.
[no title indexed]
Shock Talk -
8.
[no title indexed]
Shock SuspenStories -
9.
The Orphan
Shock SuspenStories -
10.
The Whipping
Shock SuspenStories -
11.
Blunderer
-
12.
You, Murderer
Shock SuspenStories -
13.
As Ye Sow...
Shock SuspenStories -
14.
Notes and Comments
-
15.
[no title indexed]
Shock SuspenStories -
16.
Raw Deal
Shock SuspenStories -
17.
The Confidant
Shock SuspenStories -
18.
Slaughter!
-
19.
For Cryin' Out Loud!
Shock SuspenStories -
20.
Well Trained
Shock SuspenStories -
21.
[no title indexed]
Shock SuspenStories -
22.
...My Brother's Keeper
Shock SuspenStories -
23.
The Hazing
Shock SuspenStories -
24.
Slob!
-
25.
A Kind of Justice
Shock SuspenStories -
26.
The Pen Is Mightier
Shock SuspenStories -
27.
[no title indexed]
Shock SuspenStories -
28.
4-Sided Triangle
Shock SuspenStories -
29.
In Character
Shock SuspenStories -
30.
Timetable
-
31.
The Assassin
Shock SuspenStories -
32.
The Operation
Shock SuspenStories -
33.
[no title indexed]
Shock SuspenStories -
34.
Cadillac Fever
Shock SuspenStories -
35.
The Trap
Shock SuspenStories -
36.
A Special Editorial
-
37.
Blowhard
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38.
In the Bag
Shock SuspenStories -
39.
Rundown
Shock SuspenStories -
40.
Russ Cochran Presents the Complete EC Library
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41.
[no title indexed]
Shock SuspenStories
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