Dates
- Cover date
- June-July 1954
- On sale
- April 15, 1954
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Raw Deal · 8 pages
Gregg Bolton cannibalizes his new bride in order to survive being stranded at sea.
- The Confidant · 7 pages
A stranger comes to town to visit a down on his luck boy named Jimmy. The townspeople warn him that they are on the lookout for someone that killed a 19 year old girl and to be careful. A mob beats to death this stranger, in reality a priest, when the man refuses to betray the confession of the killer.
- Slaughter! · 1 pages
Young Petie ran into his father's barn, screaming that old man Winstead was killing babies, so Petie's father grabbed his shotgun and headed over to Winstead's barn where he found the sawdust wet with blood and a supposed maniac wielding an axe and bringing it down onto his intended victim. Without hesitation, Dildo brought his shotgun up and blasted away at the maniac, who proved to actually be Winstead, killing baby pigs for dinner.
- For Cryin' Out Loud! · 6 pages
Marty, a well-known embezzler on the lam, falls for a beautiful gal and uses a false name when introducing himself. However, he later discovers that she knows who he really is, and when she tells him that she wants $25,000 to keep quiet, he strangles her to death. But his conscience bothers him so much that he has an uncontrollable urge to confess the deed to anyone in earshot.
- Well Trained · 7 pages
A detective arrests the burglar who murdered his wife. The detective brutally beats the man, hospitalizes him, and hounds him in the hospital about the death he will receive in the electric chair. The detective fixates on his vengeance to such a degree that the killer flees the hospital and is struck by a subway car. The detective is tortured by the uncertainty of whether the killer was electrocuted by the third rail or if the train struck him first.
Reprinted in
Shock Suspenstories (1981), Shock Suspenstories (1994), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (2012), The EC Archives: Shock SuspenStories (2015)