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COVER DETAILS
Pencils:
Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)
Inks:
Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)
Colors:
Marie Severin
Letters:
typeset
Notes:
Colorist credit by Craig Delich.
STORY DETAILS
Title:
Shock Talk
Pages:
1.000
Script:
Al Feldstein
Letters:
typeset
Notes:
Found on the inside front cover, which contains letters from Marie Raah, Roger Roberson, Ruby MacDonell, John Gordon, R. C. Ford and John Lanctot, as well as editorial hype.
Title:
Split Second!
Characters:
Jack (lumberjack); Fuz (lumberjack); Ted Morgan (lumberjack); Steve Dixon (villain, lumberjack boss, death); Liz (Silver Dollar Saloon singer, Steve's wife, eventual death)
Synopsis:
When a lumberjack boss blinds a young worker by hitting him in the head with a rock, the other lumberjacks gag him and stuff him in a hollow log for the blind boy to practice chopping through......and Liz, his wife, is next!
Pages:
8.000
Script:
Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
Pencils:
Jack Kamen (signed)
Inks:
Jack Kamen (signed)
Letters:
Jim Wroten
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.
Synopsis:
Police Lieutenant Staley murders his wife and then beats a confession out of an innocent by-stander.
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
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:
Last Ride!
Characters:
unnamed woman (wife of unnamed man, death); unnamed man (villain, death)
Synopsis:
A man decides on a novel way of killing his wife because she is seeking a divorce, which would cut him off from her fortune. As she boarded an elevator on the penthouse level, the man stepped into the shaft through an emergency door, and cut the last cable to the elevator, which would send the car plunging down at him. Unfortunately for him, when that cable was cut, the system automatically shut every door leading to the elevator shaft.....and all he could do was watch the plunging car coming toward him!
Synopsis:
Bancroft hops a freight train after robbing a stranded motorist to facilitate his flight from the minions of the law, but he hadn't counted on the railroad dick checking every car once the train was moving. It was suicide to jump from the train and, if he was caught, it meant ten years behind bars. Then he spotted a tramp riding the rails and he decided to change clothing with him.....what he didn't know was that this tramp had just killed someone in a nearby town.....and the clothes were covered with the victim's blood!
Synopsis:
In the 21st Century, marriage licenses must be renewed every three years, so a man pays a woman thirty thousand dollars to be his wife for three years, but both agree on no sex. She agrees, and over time, falls in love with him. At the end of the three years she tells him that she'll claim she's expecting a child and the license will automatically renew. But he tells her that she could not be expecting a child and reveals he is a robot, and that he only wanted a wife during the past three years for crucial business negotiation appearances.
Pages:
6.000
Script:
Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
Pencils:
Joe Orlando [as Orlando] (signed)
Inks:
Joe Orlando [as Orlando] (signed)
Letters:
Jim Wroten
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:
Uppercut!
Characters:
Herby Dixon (boxer); Eddie (boxer); Tom Murphy (boxer); Jerry Colby (boxer, death); Ernie Maxwell (boxer); Max (fight scheduler); Lou (bookie); Joe Wiley (fight promoter, death); Harry (forensic pathologist)
Synopsis:
A fight promoter tells the boys he sends into the ring that they've got to have guts. One of the washed-up cases steals a drug from his brother in med school that will make a person look dead, but still be alive, so that the promoter will be buried alive. However, when the promoter comes to, he has not been buried but finds himself in a Police morgue, and he briefly looks down to see that his guts have been removed during the autopsy.
Pages:
7.000
Script:
Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
Pencils:
Jack Davis (signed)
Inks:
Jack Davis (signed)
Letters:
Jim Wroten
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.
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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
2
0
1
0
1
3
1
5
8
9
12
7
8
8
9
3
0
4
2
3
5
3
2
0
0
96
Qualified
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
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
2
0
0
1
0
1
1
0
0
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
7
Total
0
0
0
2
0
1
2
1
3
2
7
9
10
12
7
8
10
9
3
0
4
2
3
5
3
2
0
0
105
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