Dates
- Cover date
- December 1952 - January 1953
- On sale
- September 25, 1952
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Dead Right! · A Crime SuspenStory · 8 pages
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.
- Under Cover! · A Shock SuspenStory · 7 pages
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.
- The Bend! · 1 pages
"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.
- Not So Tough! · A Science-Fiction SuspenStory · 6 pages
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.
- Sugar 'N Spice 'N... · A Horror SuspenStory · 7 pages
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!
Reprinted in
Shock Suspenstories (1981), Shock Suspenstories (1992), EC Archives: Shock SuspenStories (2006), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (2012), EC Classics (1985), EC Sampler - Free Comic Book Day (2008), Choke Gasp! The Best of 75 Years of EC Comics (2019)