Shock SuspenStories #8 Values

Title: The Assault!

Characters: Mrs. Cartwright (Lucy's mother); Mr. Cartwright (Lucy's father); Hodges (town derelict, death); George (villain, Lucy's lover); Lucy Cartwright (villain, death)

Synopsis: Lucy, who was spending hours away from home on a regular basis, comes home one night and claims that old Hodges kidnapped and raped her, when, in fact, she had been with her lover. However, when the old man is killed and Lucy spurns her lover, he does the only honorable thing in his mind: kill her!

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 credit from "Tales of Terror! -- The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.

Title: Suicide

Characters: unnamed old man (janitor, death); Patterson (villain, death)

Synopsis: Patterson had to kill the old janitor after he had broken into a joint in order to keep the man from identifying the criminal. However, Patterson tried to make his crime look like suicide, but the plan backfired when the bullet to the old man's head went into a nearby boiler and scalded the criminal to death!

Pages: 1.000

Script: Al Feldstein

Pencils: ? (spot illustration)

Inks: ? (spot illustration)

Letters: typeset

Title: Shock Talk

Pages: 1.000

Letters: typeset

Notes: After making an appeal to readers to ask their newsdealers to prominently display EC magazines, the editors publish a variety of letters from the readers, plus a few reacting to the story "Undercover" from issue #6.

Title: The Arrival

Characters: Grozo (Martian); Zkorl (Martian); Spdork (Martian); un-named Pharoah of Egypt (flashback); Christopher Columbus (flashback); Napoleon Bonaparte (flashback); Thomas Edison (flashback); Orville Wright (flashback); Wilbur Wright (flashback)

Synopsis: Ninety-five thousand years after man destroys himself with nuclear weapons, the evolved rats develop space travel and meet their Martian neighbors.

Pages: 6.000

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

Pencils: Al Williamson (signed); Frank Frazetta (some panels on pages 4-6); Roy Krenkel (alien architecture)

Inks: Al Williamson (signed); Frank Frazetta (some panels on pages 4-6); Roy Krenkel (alien architecture)

Letters: Jim Wroten

Notes: Krenkel and Frazetta credits added by Craig Delich 2013-9-20. 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 credit from "Tales of Terror! -- The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.

Title: Seep No More!

Characters: Mrs. Monahan (Finner's landlady); Irene Lauton (actress, death); two un-named detectives; Mr. Finner (villain, boarder)

Synopsis: Every morning, after a man stabs a woman to death and stashes her body in the attic, he sees a huge bloodstain spreading across his ceiling. He tries to cover it up with paint, but every morning it's there. He even puts a bucket on the floor to collect the blood, and it appears half full to him when the suspicious detectives listen to his confession and tell him there is no stain and no blood in the bucket.

Pages: 7.000

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

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. Script credit from "Tales of Terror! -- The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.