Dates
- Cover date
- December 1954 - January 1955
- On sale
- October 15, 1954
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Cadillac Fever! · 6 pages
A poor girl knows her father will never be able to afford to buy a Cadillac, so she murders her mother and swears in court that the father did it, so after he is executed he gets his long sought after ride in a Cadillac hearse.
- The Trap · 8 pages
A husband is betrayed by his wife and funeral director when they plot to commit fraud to collect on his life insurance policy for his own murder. They plan to make him appear to be the victim of a mugging and then disappear in South America for a year. When his wife doesn't show with the money, he returns and they have him arrested and he ends up hanging for his own murder.
- A Special Editorial · 1 pages
- Blowhard · 1 pages
A man in a frazzled coat walks into a bank and announces a robbery, stating that unless he gets money quickly, he will detonate a bomb in his briefcase. The bank manager laughs it off, thinking it is the oldest gag in the world, and the bank guard points a pistol at the thief and demands the bag. The thief drops the bag and runs out the door. A few seconds later, the bomb goes off.
- In the Bag · 6 pages
Policeman McLeod notices a wild-eyed man carrying a bag with a suspicious rusty red stain on the bottom, and from the man's story, he believes that the bag contains the head of his boss. He chases after him and a city-wide manhunt begins. Soon, McLeod spots a man carrying a bag and shoots and kills him, only to discover that the dead man is not the maniac (who was already captured), but an innocent man carrying a bowling ball!
- Rundown · 6 pages
A man commits murder attempting to acquire enough money to win back his wife's affections. He doesn't know that she and her lover have already made a plot to run him down. When they manage to hit him with the car, they are pleased to find that his wallet is flush with cash.
Reprinted in
Shock Suspenstories (1981), Shock Suspenstories (1994), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (2012), The EC Archives: Shock SuspenStories (2015), B. Krigstein Comics (2004), Messages in a Bottle: Comic Book Stories by B. Krigstein (2013)