Shock SuspenStories #7 Gaines File Pedigree 9/11 (EC, 1953) CGC NM+ 9.6 Off-white to white pages....

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Shock SuspenStories #7 Values

Publisher: EC, 1953

About Shock SuspenStories #7

Classic electrocution cover by Al Feldstein. Adapts "The Small Assassin" by Ray Bradbury, drawn by George Evans. Other artists include Jack Kamen, Wally Wood, and Joe Orlando.

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COVER DETAILS

Pencils: Albert B. Feldstein [as Feldstein] (signed)

Inks: Albert B. Feldstein [as Feldstein] (signed)

Colors: Marie Severin

Letters: typeset

STORY DETAILS

(6 Stories)

Title: Beauty And The Beach!

Characters: Mary Milton (John's wife); Ginger Fullman (Percy's wife, death); Cedric Abels (publicity man); Tom Simmens (advertising director); John Milton (villain, plastics factory worker); Percy Fullman (villain)

Synopsis: Two men are frustrated by the vanity of their attractive wives and the fact that they have offers to do some modeling and to participate in four beauty contests. One encases his wife in plastic while wearing her bathing suit, and the other broils his wife alive under forty sun lamps.

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 2013-12-8. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with. Script revisions by Craig Delich.

Title: The Bribe!

Characters: Captain Donaldson; Jean Wilson (Frank's daughter); Ted (Jean's fiancee); Frank Wilson (villain, City Fire Inspector, death); Foster (villain, former City Fire Inspector); Nick Cusco (villain, Blue Swan Club owner)

Synopsis: A fire inspector commits suicide when a fire breaks out in a night club where he took a bribe to overlook code violations. He thinks his daughter was killed in the fire with the other patrons because of a photo taken of her earlier that evening, but what he doesn't know is that she and her fiancee have eloped and didn't stay for the show.

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 2013-12-8. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with. Script revisions by Craig Delich.

Title: The Mountain Jackal

Characters: Jenga Shah (a bhisti); Tajik Kabal (villain, Afghan chieftan, death)

Synopsis: For four unfettered years, Chieftan Tajik Kabal has sacked village after village, leaving behind the bodies of headless corpses, after which he planned to build a huge fortress in which to store his ill-gotten gain. Unfortunately for him, he chose the site for the fortress near the location of a British fort......a battled ensued and the chieftan was captured and thrown into a dungeon. But his plan to escape his confines meets with a "cutting" conclusion!

Pages: 1.000

Script: Al Feldstein

Pencils: ? (spot illustration)

Inks: ? (spot illustration)

Letters: typeset

Pages: 0.670

Script: Al Feldstein

Letters: typeset

Notes: The Editors present the facts to readers that, with over 500 comic titles appearing on newsstands each month, many companies wre losing lots of money, some folding up shop, others dropping titles. Readers were asked to keep up their support of their favorite EC titles, else the same fate would befall EC.

Title: Infiltration

Characters: Phil Brady (Flying Saucer Bureau employee, death); Betty Curtiss (villain, a Martian, Shaw's private secretary); Colonel Wayne Shaw (villain, a Martian, Pentagon Flying Saucer Bureau employee)

Synopsis: This story postulates that a small government agency responsible for ferreting out Martian infiltrators is completely infested with Martian infiltrators except for a sole human whom they gun down.

Pages: 6.000

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

Pencils: Joe Orlando (signed)

Inks: Joe Orlando (signed)

Letters: Jim Wroten

Notes: Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-8. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with. Script revisions by Craig Delich.

Title: The Small Assassin!

Characters: Alice (death); David (Alice's husband, death); Dr. Jeffers; David and Alice's un-named baby (villain, eventual death)

Synopsis: A mother is paranoid that her newborn baby is attempting to kill her. She's right. And the doctor, who brought the child into the world, after finding her husband dead as well, decides to take care of matters......in his own way!

Pages: 7.000

Script: Ray Bradbury; Al Feldstein (adaptation)

Pencils: George Evans

Inks: George Evans

Letters: Jim Wroten

Notes: Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-8. 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	1	2	3	7	4	10	13	9	22	9	9	12	17	7	10	7	5	0	4	4	5	0	0	162
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	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4
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	1	1	0	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7
Total	0	0	0	0	2	1	2	4	8	4	11	16	9	23	10	10	12	18	7	11	7	5	0	4	4	5	0	0	173

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