Shock SuspenStories #13 Gaines File Pedigree 8/12 (EC, 1954) CGC NM 9.4 White pages....

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Shock SuspenStories #13 Values

Publisher: EC, 1954

About Shock SuspenStories #13

Frank Frazetta's only solo story for EC (seven pages). Jack Kamen cover. Kamen, Wally Wood, and Reed Crandall art.

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COVER DETAILS

Pencils: Jack Kamen (signed)

Inks: Jack Kamen (signed)

Letters: typeset

STORY DETAILS

(5 Stories)

Title: Only Skin-Deep

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.

Pages: 8.000

Script: Al Feldstein

Pencils: Jack Kamen

Inks: Jack Kamen

Letters: Jim Wroten

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.

Title: Blood-Brothers

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.

Pages: 7.000

Script: Al Feldstein

Pencils: Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)

Inks: Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)

Letters: Jim Wroten

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.

Title: Upon Reflection

Characters: Joey Berksant (boxer, death); Nicky (Joey's trainer, in flashback); unnamed psychiatrist; Manny Williams (boxer, in flashback, death); Manny's wife (in flashback); Benny (gym trainer)

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.

Pages: 6.000

Script: Bill Gaines (co-plot) ?; Al Feldstein (co-plot, script) ?; Jack Oleck ?

Pencils: Reed Crandall (signed)

Inks: Reed Crandall (signed)

Letters: Jim Wroten

Notes: Letterer credit per Al Feldstein and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-12. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with. Script revision from Al Feldstein to what is now posted per Bill Mason in EC Artists' Library, Volume #15.

Title: Squeeze Play

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.

Pages: 7.000

Script: Al Feldstein

Pencils: Frank Frazetta (signed)

Inks: Frank Frazetta (signed); Al Williamson

Letters: Jim Wroten

Reprints: EC Portfolio (Russ Cochran, 1971 series) #2 (1972)

Notes: Due to deadline problems, Williamson, who turned 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.

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CGC Census Report*

Grade	NG	PG	CVR	0.5	1.0	1.5	1.8	2.0	2.5	3.0	3.5	4.0	4.5	5.0	5.5	6.0	6.5	7.0	7.5	8.0	8.5	9.0	9.2	9.4	9.6	9.8	9.9	10.0	Total
Universal	0	0	0	0	2	4	1	7	11	14	14	19	15	13	19	10	8	9	5	4	3	3	3	5	0	0	0	0	169
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
CGCxJSA	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Restored	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9
Total	0	0	0	0	2	5	2	7	11	14	14	20	16	15	19	10	10	10	6	4	3	3	3	5	0	0	0	0	179

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