Dates
- Cover date
- August-September 1954
- On sale
- June 15, 1954
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Are You a Red Dupe? · 1 pages
This editorial illustrated page purports that the Communists are the ones trying to destroy the comic magazine industry, citing the Soviet "Daily Worker" newspaper and Dr. Frederick Wertham.
- ...My Brother's Keeper · 6 pages
An evil Siamese twin murders his brother's wife, but the state does not execute him as it would mean the death of the good one. The good one finally commits suicide to halt the evil of the other.
- The Hazing · 7 pages
A college student, Warren Fuller, wants to join a frat so he makes up a story about a professor they don't like being a communist in order to get him fired. But the whole plan backfires when Warren's sister marries that professor.
- Slob! · 1 pages
Herndon would not let up on the custodian of his building, whose personal neatness was not very good, and all Sikora could hear was the word "slob" being thrown at him by Herndon. Sikora had had enough and lunged at the man......but Herndon fought back and killed the custodian, and shoved his body into the basement furnace to eliminate any evidence of the crime. But that backfired on the landlord.......the furnace was too filthy and clogged up to sustain a fire!
- A Kind of Justice · 8 pages
A mob beats a vagrant to death for the rape of a sixteen year old girl that the town sheriff has been violating.
- The Pen Is Mightier · 7 pages
A newspaper columnist murders his gangster friend to get his wife and frames an innocent man for the crime through the power of his words.
Reprinted in
Shock Suspenstories (1981), Shock Suspenstories (1994), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (2012), The EC Archives: Shock SuspenStories (2015), EC Horror Library of the 1950's (1970), EC Lives! (1972)