Dates
- Cover date
- February-March 1953
- On sale
- November 25, 1952
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Beauty And The Beach! · A Crime SuspenStory · 8 pages
Two men are frustrated by the vanity of their attractive wives and the fact that they have offers to do some modeling and to participate in four beauty contests. One encases his wife in plastic while wearing her bathing suit, and the other broils his wife alive under forty sun lamps.
- The Bribe! · A Shock SuspenStory · 7 pages
A fire inspector commits suicide when a fire breaks out in a night club where he took a bribe to overlook code violations. He thinks his daughter was killed in the fire with the other patrons because of a photo taken of her earlier that evening, but what he doesn't know is that she and her fiancee have eloped and didn't stay for the show.
- The Mountain Jackal · 1 pages
For four unfettered years, Chieftan Tajik Kabal has sacked village after village, leaving behind the bodies of headless corpses, after which he planned to build a huge fortress in which to store his ill-gotten gain. Unfortunately for him, he chose the site for the fortress near the location of a British fort......a battled ensued and the chieftan was captured and thrown into a dungeon. But his plan to escape his confines meets with a "cutting" conclusion!
- Infiltration · A Science-Fiction SuspenStory · 6 pages
This story postulates that a small government agency responsible for ferreting out Martian infiltrators is completely infested with Martian infiltrators except for a sole human whom they gun down.
- The Small Assassin! · A Horror SuspenStory · 7 pages
A mother is paranoid that her newborn baby is attempting to kill her. She's right. And the doctor, who brought the child into the world, after finding her husband dead as well, decides to take care of matters......in his own way!
Reprinted in
Shock Suspenstories (1981), Shock Suspenstories (1992), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (2012), The EC Archives: Shock Suspenstories (2021), The Autumn People (1965), Choke Gasp! The Best of 75 Years of EC Comics (2019)