Shock SuspenStories #14 Gaines File Pedigree 2/12 (EC, 1954) CGC NM- 9.2 Off-white to white pages....

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Shock SuspenStories #14 Values

Publisher: EC, 1954

About Shock SuspenStories #14

Wally Wood cover and art. Jack Kamen, Bernie Krigstein, and George Evans art. Used as a negative example in US Senate investigation hearings.

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COVER DETAILS

Pencils: Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)

Inks: Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)

Colors: Marie Severin ?

Letters: typeset

STORY DETAILS

(5 Stories)

Title: The Orphan

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.

Pages: 8.000

Script: Albert B. Feldstein

Pencils: Jack Kamen (signed)

Inks: Jack Kamen (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: The Whipping

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.

Pages: 7.000

Script: Albert B. Feldstein; Jack Oleck ?

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. Oleck credit per "Came the Dawn" volume as possible writer. Added by Craig Delich.

Title: You, Murderer

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 first person about the victim a hypnotist picks to do his dirty work for a killing after his wife leaves him for another man.

Pages: 6.000

Script: Otto Binder

Pencils: Bernie Krigstein [as Dr. Caligari Krigstein] (signed)

Inks: Bernie Krigstein [as Dr. Caligari Krigstein] (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. "Dr. Caligari Kriegstein" (as Bernie signed this) is a reference to the 1920 German horror movie, "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari". Kriegstein 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.

Title: As Ye Sow...

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.

Pages: 7.000

Script: Carl Wessler

Pencils: George Evans [as Geo. Evans] (signed)

Inks: George Evans [as Geo. Evans] (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. Wessler script confirmed per biblio in Robin Snyder's The Comics Vol. 21, No. 3, March 2010. Original titled "Date with Death"

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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	2	0	3	5	14	10	16	12	13	15	8	6	9	4	1	2	1	2	3	3	0	0	0	131
Qualified	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
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	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	2	0	4	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	11
Total	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	5	7	14	10	16	14	13	19	8	6	10	4	1	2	1	2	3	3	0	0	0	142

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