Shock SuspenStories #12 Values

Publisher: EC, 1953

About Shock SuspenStories #12

An anti-drug issue with a classic junkie/hypodermic needle cover by Al Feldstein, for the story titled "The Monkey". Wally Wood, Reed Crandall, Jack Kamen, and Joe Orlando art.

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COVER DETAILS

Characters: Eddie

Pencils: Al Feldstein [as Feldstein] (signed)

Inks: Al Feldstein [as Feldstein] (signed)

Colors: Marie Severin

Letters: typeset

Notes: Drug story cover.

Reprints: EC Classic Reprint (East Coast Comix, 1973 series) #3 (1973)

STORY DETAILS

(6 Stories)

Title: Deadline

Characters: Phil Mason [aka Paul in the opening blurb] (newspaper editor); Annie (Larry's love interest, wife of diner owner); Stan (newspaper reporter); Mike (diner owner); Larry Grieg (villain, ex-newspaper reporter)

Synopsis: An alcoholic ex-reporter tries to get back on his feet after meeting a girl, and his old boss says he can have his job back if he brings in a story. While sitting in a diner he hears violence occuring in the next room, and the diner owner comes out and confesses to murder. Larry thinks he's found his story and takes down all the details, then checks on the girl and discovers two things about her: she is still alive and she is the girl he had met earlier!

Pages: 8.000

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

Pencils: Jack Kamen (signed)

Inks: Jack Kamen (signed)

Letters: Jim Wroten

Reprints: EC Classic Reprint (East Coast Comix, 1973 series) #3 (1973)

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

Title: The Monkey

Characters: Sue Minner (drug user); Mr. Clements (Eddie's boss); Eddie's unnamed father (death); Eddie's unnamed mother; unnamed narcotics officer; Sid Scanlon (villain, drug dealer); Eddie (villain, drug addict)

Synopsis: A drug addict murders his father in order to get his fix.

Pages: 7.000

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

Pencils: Joe Orlando (signed)

Inks: Joe Orlando (signed)

Letters: Jim Wroten

Reprints: EC Lives! (Ron Barlow, 1972 series) #[nn] (1972), | EC Classic Reprint (East Coast Comix, 1973 series) #3 (1973)

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

Title: Last Laugh!

Characters: Major Clagg [aka "Chuckles"] (airplane pilot, death)

Synopsis: Major Clagg was a parachute corps pilot that liked to take real risks when parachuting from a plane, and every feat he accomplished was accompanied by a practical joke of some kind. His crowning gag was to drop a life-sized doll from a plane before he himself parachuted out. Unfortunately, the Major forgot one important thing during that final exploit: to don his parachute!

Pages: 1.000

Script: Al Feldstein

Pencils: Marie Severin (spot illustration)

Inks: Marie Severin (spot illustration)

Letters: typeset

Title: The Kidnapper

Characters: Daniel (death); Teresa (Daniel's wife); unnamed son of Daniel and Teresa; Frederick (neighbor of Daniel and Teresa)

Synopsis: A man's baby is kidnapped and when his wife's mental health grows so bad that he desperately attempts to steal another baby, he is beaten to death by a crowd of onlookers for attempting to kidnap...his own son.

Pages: 6.000

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

Pencils: Reed Crandall (signed)

Inks: Reed Crandall (signed)

Letters: Jim Wroten

Reprints: EC Classic Reprint (East Coast Comix, 1973 series) #3 (1973)

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

Title: Fall Guy

Characters: Helen (Danny's girl); unnamed diamond merchant; Danny Jansen [aka Brad Gilbert] (villain, hotel clerk, thief)

Synopsis: A hotel clerk steals $100,000 from a diamond merchant and then rents a safety deposit box years in advance under the name 'Brad Gilbert'. He serves 15 years for the theft, then meets with the girl who promised to wait for him because she wants the money. Unable to remember the name he used, the girl berates his inability to recall the name, and he slashes her face with a steak knife. As the police close in on him, he jumps off a roof, clutching at letters of a sign, and, as he lies dying on the pavement, he sees the remaining neon letters spell out 'Brad Gilbert'.

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 Classic Reprint (East Coast Comix, 1973 series) #3 (1973)

Notes: Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-12. 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	1	6	5	8	6	15	20	17	17	20	12	14	9	13	7	1	5	2	1	3	2	1	0	0	186
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	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	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	1	0	0	0	4	1	0	2	1	0	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	13
Total	0	0	0	1	1	7	5	9	6	19	21	18	19	21	12	16	10	14	7	1	5	2	1	3	2	1	0	0	201

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