Dates
- Cover date
- June-July 1952
- On sale
- March 25, 1952
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Just Desserts! · A Crime SuspenStory · 8 pages
A madman holds a dinner party for five people who have done dirt to him in the past and decapitates them.
- The Guilty! · A Shock SuspenStory · 7 pages
A bigot sheriff arrests a black man for the death of a white woman based on the testimony of a man who turns out to be the killer. The sheriff executes the suspect in the woods and claims he made a break for it.
- Doc · 1 pages
The Chief was having serious stomach issues with his appendix, so he was taken by his buddy to see an old quack doctor, who supposedly fixed the crook up. And fixed him he did.......although the doc was murdered to shut him up, the doc had the last laugh, when, at 10pm, the time-bomb the doc had sewn into the Chief's belly exploded!
- Jump-Off! · 1 pages
Public Enemy Ben Troy, battered though he was, manages to get out of bed, while under guard outside his hospital room, and make his way to the window in order to effect an escape. Imagine his surprise when he jumps out the window thinking he is on the 2nd Floor and discovers he was actually in Room 819!
- The Big Stand-Up! · A Science-Fiction SuspenStory · 6 pages
A broadcast technician falls in love with a woman whose transmission he picks up from another planet, some eighty light years away. But when she comes to him in a rocketship, Bart discovers that she stands about 200 feet high!
- Stumped! · A Horror SuspenStory · 7 pages
A trapper moves a rival's trap hoping the man will step in it and die so that he can take over his territory. He does step in it, but his desire for revenge is so strong that he chews through his own ankle in order to kill the guilty party before he expires.
Reprinted in
Shock Suspenstories (1981), Shock Suspenstories (1992), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (2012), EC Classics (1985), Home to Stay! The Complete EC Ray Bradbury Stories (2022)