Shock SuspenStories #6 Values

Publisher: EC, 1952

About Shock SuspenStories #6

Overstreet describes Wally Wood's cover as a "classic hooded vigilante bondage cover". Story art by Wood, Jack Kamen, Joe Orlando, and Graham Ingels.

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COVER DETAILS

Characters: Suzy Carson

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

(6 Stories)

Title: Dead Right!

Characters: Madame Vorna (fortune teller); J. Flag Marson (prison warden, mention only); Mr. Clayton (Cathy's boss); Cathy Finch Marno (office clerk, waitress, death); Charles Marno (villain, Cathy's husband, death)

Synopsis: A fortune teller predicts to a woman that a man who wants to marry her, but she finds repulsive, is going to inherit twenty-five thousand dollars and die shortly afterward, so she marries him. What the fortune teller doesn't tell her is that she wins the twenty-five thousand dollars as a prize, and when she tries to walk out on the slob, he murders her and inherits her money then dies in the electric chair.

Pages: 8.000

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

Pencils: Jack Kamen [as Kamen] (signed)

Inks: Jack Kamen [as Kamen] (signed)

Letters: Jim Wroten

Notes: Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-7. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with. Script revisions by Craig Delich.

Title: Under Cover!

Characters: Suzy Carson (death); Ed Fenton (newspaper editor); Sam Masters (newspaperman, death); Grand Master of the Black Vigilante Society (villain); two unnamed phony FBI agents (villains); unnamed Society members (villains)

Synopsis: When Sam Masters sees a secret society whip a girl to death he tries to contact the F.B.I. before they can catch him.

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: Cover story. Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-7. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with. Script revisions by Craig Delich.

Title: The Bend!

Characters: "Busher" Benton (villain, eventual death); five Apache Indians (villains)

Synopsis: "Busher" Benton had been getting rich off the gold he had stolen from hard-working prospectors, when he suddenly saw five Apaches coming at him. He took off on foot and was running the twelve miles to nearby Fort Rush, knowing that if the Indians captured him, he would be tortured and then burned head down on a stake! He made it to the Fort, but was in for a surprise.

Pages: 1.000

Script: Al Feldstein

Pencils: Marie Severin (spot illustration)

Inks: Marie Severin (spot illustration)

Letters: typeset

Pages: 1.000

Letters: typeset

Notes: Letters to the Editors page in which readers wrote in their comments about the story, "Confession," which appeared in issue #4. Letters printed from Clinton Day, Jim Turner, Louise O'Brien, Everett Markholme, George Cotter, Arthur Crowley, Carole Flagg, Charles Laquidora, George Snowden III, and PFC Ronald B. Craig.

Title: Not So Tough!

Characters: Lieutenant Robert Arden (Astro-Navigator, later Rocket-Man 3rd Class, death); Sergeant Coogan (ship crewman, death); Seeley (crewman, death); Vice-Commander Philip Forbes (death); Commander Horace Bergman (villain, death)

Synopsis: A space commander who is as tough as nails on his crew is reduced to soft putty in the grip of a large gravitational force.

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 2013-12-7. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with. Script revisions by Craig Delich.

Title: Sugar 'N Spice 'N...

Characters: Johnny (Margaret's brother, death); Margaret (Johnny's sister, death); a witch [aka The Crab] (villain)

Synopsis: A brother and sister lose their ball in the yard of an old woman whom they referred to as "The Old Crab". She eventually gave them the ball back, but warned them to stay away. On Halloween night, the two play a prank on this woman, with fatal results!

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

Notes: Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-7. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with. Script credit revision by Craig Delich, formerly Albert B. Feldstein. Story is a contemporary re-telling of the story, "Hansel and Gretel".

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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	6	4	9	9	6	17	20	19	27	31	27	17	23	25	25	25	30	13	10	2	6	4	6	2	0	363
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
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	2	1	2	3	1	0	1	4	1	3	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	21
Total	0	0	0	6	4	9	9	6	19	21	21	30	32	27	18	28	26	28	27	31	14	11	2	6	4	6	2	0	387

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