Dates
- Cover date
- August-September 1952
- On sale
- June 12, 1952
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Split Second! · A Crime SuspenStory · 8 pages
When a lumberjack boss blinds a young worker by hitting him in the head with a rock, the other lumberjacks gag him and stuff him in a hollow log for the blind boy to practice chopping through......and Liz, his wife, is next!
- Confession · A Shock SuspenStory · 7 pages
Police Lieutenant Staley murders his wife and then beats a confession out of an innocent by-stander.
- Last Ride! · 1 pages
A man decides on a novel way of killing his wife because she is seeking a divorce, which would cut him off from her fortune. As she boarded an elevator on the penthouse level, the man stepped into the shaft through an emergency door, and cut the last cable to the elevator, which would send the car plunging down at him. Unfortunately for him, when that cable was cut, the system automatically shut every door leading to the elevator shaft.....and all he could do was watch the plunging car coming toward him!
- Salvation! · 1 pages
Bancroft hops a freight train after robbing a stranded motorist to facilitate his flight from the minions of the law, but he hadn't counted on the railroad dick checking every car once the train was moving. It was suicide to jump from the train and, if he was caught, it meant ten years behind bars. Then he spotted a tramp riding the rails and he decided to change clothing with him.....what he didn't know was that this tramp had just killed someone in a nearby town.....and the clothes were covered with the victim's blood!
- Strictly Business! · A Science-Fiction SuspenStory · 6 pages
In the 21st Century, marriage licenses must be renewed every three years, so a man pays a woman thirty thousand dollars to be his wife for three years, but both agree on no sex. She agrees, and over time, falls in love with him. At the end of the three years she tells him that she'll claim she's expecting a child and the license will automatically renew. But he tells her that she could not be expecting a child and reveals he is a robot, and that he only wanted a wife during the past three years for crucial business negotiation appearances.
- Uppercut! · A Horror SuspenStory · 7 pages
A fight promoter tells the boys he sends into the ring that they've got to have guts. One of the washed-up cases steals a drug from his brother in med school that will make a person look dead, but still be alive, so that the promoter will be buried alive. However, when the promoter comes to, he has not been buried but finds himself in a Police morgue, and he briefly looks down to see that his guts have been removed during the autopsy.
Reprinted in
Shock Suspenstories (1981), Shock Suspenstories (1992), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (2012), Choke Gasp! The Best of 75 Years of EC Comics (2019)