Shock SuspenStories #9 Gaines File pedigree (EC, 1953) CGC NM/MT 9.8 White pages....

Auction amount: $4,780.00

Sold: Nov 22, 2014

Shock SuspenStories #9 Values

Publisher: EC, 1953

About Shock SuspenStories #9

Adapts "The October Game" by Ray Bradbury, and includes a biography of the author. Injury-to-eye panel. Al Feldstein cover. Jack Kamen, Joe Orlando, Reed Crandall, and Wally Wood art.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: Carrion Death

Characters: unnamed State Trooper; unnamed bank robber

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

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

Colors: Marie Severin

Letters: typeset

Notes: Story title taken from the inside story.

STORY DETAILS

(6 Stories)

Title: The October Game

Characters: Louise Wilder (Mitch's wife); Marion Wilder (Louise and Mitch's daughter, death); Helen; Mitch Wilder (villain)

Synopsis: A madman who hates his wife dismembers his daughter and passes around her body parts to children in a darkened cellar on Halloween.

Pages: 8.000

Script: Ray Bradbury; Al Feldstein (adaptation)

Pencils: Jack Kamen

Inks: Jack Kamen

Letters: Jim Wroten

Notes: Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-9. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

Title: Came The Dawn!

Characters: Cathy Maxwell (death); Bob Ames; un-named criminally insane girl (villain)

Synopsis: A man thinks that the girl he has met in the woods may be a dangerous escaped lunatic because she matches the description, but his girlfriend ends up meeting a grim fate as the latest victim of the true escapee.

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 Portfolio (Russ Cochran, 1971 series) #5 (1974)

Notes: Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-9. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with. Script revisions by Craig Delich.

Title: Surgery!

Characters: Doc Spender (unlicensed doctor); Bat Parker (villain); Danny (villain)

Synopsis: In a Police Hospital room, criminal Bat Parker, seriously wounded in a gunfight with the Police, needs a gangrene-laden leg amputated before he dies. The only way this quack would operate was if he were drunk. That was the easy part......the hard part was Bat discovering that the doc had cut off the wrong leg!

Pages: 1.000

Script: Al Feldstein

Pencils: Marie Severin (spot illustration)

Inks: Marie Severin (spot illustration)

Letters: typeset

Title: The Meddlers!

Characters: Dr. Conrad Rivers (research chemist, death); Mr. Kearns (groery store owner, death); the widow Jones (death); Jed (death); Enos (death); Martha (death)

Synopsis: The folk of a small town attempt to drive away a doctor who is attempting to create life in a test tube. They smash his equipment while he suffers heart failure. His failed experiments combine in the sewer to create a blob-like living mass which devours the townsfolk.

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 2013-12-9. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with. Script revisions by Craig Delich.

Title: Carrion Death!

Characters: unnamed State Trooper (death); unnamed bank robber (villain, death)

Synopsis: A man handcuffed to policeman is trying to make his way through the desert on foot. He realizes that he has to separate himself from the body but has nothing sharp to cut off the dead man's hand with. He decides to lie down and allow the vultures to strip the corpse, but when he regains consciousness the vultures have already started in on him as well.

Pages: 7.000

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

Pencils: Reed Crandall (signed)

Inks: Reed Crandall (signed)

Letters: Jim Wroten

Notes: Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-9. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with. Script revisions by Craig Delich.

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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	1	0	4	1	1	8	5	8	5	13	15	9	14	13	8	5	2	5	5	2	4	2	5	0	0	135
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	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
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	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5
Total	0	0	0	1	0	4	1	2	8	5	9	6	14	16	10	15	13	8	5	2	5	5	2	4	2	5	0	0	142

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