Shock SuspenStories #2 Gaines File pedigree 7/10 (EC, 1952) CGC NM/MT 9.8 Off-white to white pages. One of Wally Wood's most...

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Shock SuspenStories #2 Values

Publisher: EC, 1952

About Shock SuspenStories #2

Severed head panel. Cover by Wally Wood cover. Story art by Wood, Jack Kamen, Jack Davis, and Graham Ingels.

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COVER DETAILS

Pencils: Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)

Inks: Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)

Colors: Marie Severin

Letters: Jim Wroten

Notes: Colorist and letterer credits by Craig Delich.

Reprints: Weird Fantasy (EC, 1951 series) #12 (March-April 1952), | EC Classic Reprint (East Coast Comix, 1973 series) #12 (1975)

STORY DETAILS

(6 Stories)

Title: Kickback!

Characters: Oscar Higgins (Freda's husband, death); unnamed doctor; Rick (Freda's boy friend); Fritz (construction worker); Mr. Davidson (Freda's lawyer); Freda Higgins (villain)

Synopsis: A young woman marries an older man for his money and gets tried of caring for him after a heart attack leaves him paralyzed. She comes up with a plot to stock the cellar with canned goods for three weeks and then pretends to be locked inside while her husband starves to death. It works, and she is cleared of suspicion in her husband's death, but the new man she meets manages to lock himself in the cellar without provisions for several days and is reduced to the same condition as her previous husband.

Pages: 8.000

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

Pencils: Jack Kamen (signed)

Inks: Jack Kamen (signed)

Letters: Jim Wroten

Reprints: EC Classic Reprint (East Coast Comix, 1973 series) #12 (1975)

Notes: Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-2. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

Title: Gee, Dad... It's a Daisy!

Characters: Lieutenant Stanley Linden (Astro-Navigator, death); Lieutenant Arnold Hartley (Rocket-Engineer, death?); Lieutenant Segal (crewman, death); Dickson (radio man, death); Phelps (crew member, death); un-named Commander of the Orion-W (death); Shrdnu (villain, intelligent plant); Vichnu (villain, intelligent plant)

Synopsis: Space explorers land on a planet teeming with intelligent carnivorous plants and fall victim to a demonstration of "She loves me...She loves me not..."

Pages: 7.000

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

Pencils: Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)

Inks: Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)

Letters: Jim Wroten

Reprints: EC Classic Reprint (East Coast Comix, 1973 series) #12 (1975)

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

Title: Time to Kill!

Characters: Edna Small (Charlie's wife); Charlie Small (villain, death)

Synopsis: Charlie had a sure-fire plan to kill the wife he hated so badly: he would plant an explosive in the alarm clock on the bedroom nightstand that would go off at 7am the next morning, then head out on a supposed business trip before that time. What he didn't know was that his ever thoughtful wife packed the alarm clock in his suitcase!

Pages: 1.000

Script: Albert B. Feldstein

Pencils: ? (spot illustration)

Inks: ? (spot illustration)

Letters: typeset

Reprints: EC Classic Reprint (East Coast Comix, 1973 series) #12 (1975)

Title: Hiding Place

Characters: Mike Kleatt (villain, jewel thief, death)

Synopsis: Mike had succeeded in snatching the quarter-of-a-million dollar Inca Crown Jewels from the museum and hiding them in a secret pocket of his jacket lining. He made his way through the various rooms of the museum and was in the European Torture Device room when he heard sirens and an announcement that thew jewels were stolen and all patrons were to be searched. However, he picks the wrong place to hide!

Pages: 1.000

Script: Albert B. Feldstein

Letters: Typeset

Reprints: EC Classic Reprint (East Coast Comix, 1973 series) #12 (1975)

Title: The Patriots!

Characters: Freddy (death); Freddy's unnamed wife; Charlie (crowd on-looker)

Synopsis: A mob at a military parade to honor wounded Korean War soldiers, whipped up by anti-communist sentiment, beats to death a blind war vet when he doesn't doff his hat to the flag during the parade.

Pages: 6.000

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

Pencils: Jack Davis (signed)

Inks: Jack Davis (signed)

Letters: Jim Wroten

Reprints: EC Classic Reprint (East Coast Comix, 1973 series) #12 (1975)

Notes: Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with. Cover story.

Title: Halloween!

Characters: Ann Dennis (matron at Briarwood); Tommy (orphan); Mary (orphan); Eban Critchit (villain, Master of Briarwood, death)

Synopsis: On Halloween night, when a new matron at an orphanage discovers the manager has been stealing the state's allotment for the children and threatens to strangle her to keep her quiet, the children take matters into their own hands and use his hollowed-out head as a pumpkin.

Pages: 7.000

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

Pencils: Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)

Inks: Graham Ingels [as Ghastly] (signed)

Letters: Jim Wroten

Reprints: EC Classic Reprint (East Coast Comix, 1973 series) #12 (1975)

Notes: Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich. 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	1	0	0	1	1	4	4	9	9	8	11	13	8	11	5	7	1	2	2	1	3	5	0	0	106
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	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Total	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	4	5	9	9	8	11	13	8	11	5	7	1	2	2	1	3	5	0	0	107

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