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Issue Details

Issue #4
Published August-September 1952
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Albert B. Feldstein

Cover Details

Pencils Wallace Wood
Inks Wallace Wood
Reprinted in Shock SuspenStories (Russ Cochran, 1992 series) #4 (June 1993)

1 page text article "Shock Talk"

Script Albert B. Feldstein
Notes Inside front cover new issue hype.

8 page Crime SuspenStory story "Split Second!"

Synopsis 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.
Script Albert B. Feldstein
Pencils Jack Kamen
Inks Jack Kamen
Colors Marie Severin
Reprinted In Shock SuspenStories (Russ Cochran, 1992 series) #4 (June 1993)

7 page Shock SuspenStories story "Confession"

Synopsis A police lieutenant murders his wife and then beats a confession out of an innocent bystander.
Script Albert B. Feldstein
Pencils Wallace Wood
Inks Wallace Wood
Colors Marie Severin
Notes Shock SuspenStory
Reprinted In Shock SuspenStories (Russ Cochran, 1992 series) #4 (June 1993)

1 page text story "Last Ride!"

Script Albert B. Feldstein

1 page text story "Salvation!"

Script Albert B. Feldstein

6 page Shock SuspenStories story "Strictly Business!"

Synopsis In the future marriage licenses must be renewed every three years. A man pays a woman thirty thousand dollars to be his wife for three years, but 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 renewal. 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.
Script Albert B. Feldstein
Pencils Joe Orlando
Inks Joe Orlando
Colors Marie Severin
Notes Science Fiction SuspenStory
Reprinted In Shock SuspenStories (Russ Cochran, 1992 series) #4 (June 1993)

7 page Shock SuspenStories story "Uppercut!"

Synopsis 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 so the promoter will be buried alive. When the promoter comes too, however, he has not been buried but he looks down to see that his guts have been removed during an autopsy.
Script Albert B. Feldstein
Pencils Jack Davis
Inks Jack Davis
Colors Marie Severin
Notes Horror SuspenStory
Reprinted In Shock SuspenStories (Russ Cochran, 1992 series) #4 (June 1993)