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Issue Details

Issue #2
Published April-May 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) #2 (December 1992)

1 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Shock Talk"

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

8 page Shock SuspenStories story "Kickback!"

Synopsis A young woman marries an older man for his money and gets tried of caring for him after a heart attack leaves him paralyzed. She comes up with a plot to stock the cellar with canned goods for three weeks and then pretends to be locked inside while her husband starves to death. It works, and she is cleared of suspicion in her husband's death, but the new man she meets manages to lock himself in the cellar without provisions for several days and is reduced to the same condition as her previous husband.
Genre Crime
Script Albert B. Feldstein
Pencils Jack Kamen
Inks Jack Kamen
Colors Marie Severin
Reprinted In Shock SuspenStories (Russ Cochran, 1992 series) #2 (December 1992)

7 page Shock SuspenStories story "Gee, Dad... It's a Daisy!"

Synopsis Space explorers land on a planet of intelligent carnivorous plants and fall victim to a demonstration of "She loves me...She loves me not..."
Genre Science Fiction
Script Albert B. Feldstein
Pencils Wallace Wood
Inks Wallace Wood
Colors Marie Severin
Reprinted In Shock SuspenStories (Russ Cochran, 1992 series) #2 (December 1992)

1 page text story "Time To Kill!"

Script Albert B. Feldstein
Letters Typeset
Reprinted In Shock SuspenStories (Russ Cochran, 1992 series) #2 (December 1992)

1 page text story "Hiding Place"

Script Albert B. Feldstein
Letters Typeset
Reprinted In Shock SuspenStories (Russ Cochran, 1992 series) #2 (December 1992)

6 page Shock SuspenStories story "The Patriots!"

Synopsis A mob whipped up by anti-communist sentiment beats to death a blind war vet when he doesn't doff his hat to the flag during a parade.
Genre War
Script Albert B. Feldstein
Pencils Jack Davis
Inks Jack Davis
Colors Marie Severin
Reprinted In Shock SuspenStories (Russ Cochran, 1992 series) #2 (December 1992)

7 page Shock SuspenStories story "Halloween!"

Synopsis On Halloween night, when a new matron at an orphanage discovers the manager has been stealing the state's allotment for the children and threatens to strangle her to keep her quiet, the children take matters into their own hands and use his hollowed-out head as a pumpkin.
Genre Horror
Script Albert B. Feldstein
Pencils Graham Ingels
Inks Graham Ingels
Colors Marie Severin
Reprinted In Shock SuspenStories (Russ Cochran, 1992 series) #2 (December 1992)