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Issue Details

Issue #18
Published December 1954 - January 1955
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Albert B. Feldstein

Cover Details

Genre Horror
Pencils George Evans
Inks George Evans
Reprinted in Shock SuspenStories (Gemstone, 1994 series) #18 (December 1996)

6 page Shock SuspenStories story "Cadillac Fever"

Synopsis 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.
Script Carl Wessler
Pencils George Evans
Inks George Evans
Colors Marie Severin
Reprinted in Shock SuspenStories (Gemstone, 1994 series) #18 (December 1996)

8 page Shock SuspenStories story "The Trap"

Synopsis 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.
Script Carl Wessler
Pencils Jack Kamen
Inks Jack Kamen
Colors Marie Severin
Notes ?
Reprinted in Shock SuspenStories (Gemstone, 1994 series) #18 (December 1996)

1 page text article "A Special Editorial"

Script Albert B. Feldstein
Letters Typeset
Notes Appeal to readers to write the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency.
Reprinted in Shock SuspenStories (Gemstone, 1994 series) #18 (December 1996)

1 page text story "Blowhard"

Script Albert B. Feldstein
Pencils Marie Severin
Inks Marie Severin
Letters Typeset
Reprinted in Shock SuspenStories (Gemstone, 1994 series) #18 (December 1996)

6 page Shock SuspenStories story "In The Bag"

Synopsis A cop kills a man with a bowling ball in a bag thinking it's a head.
Script Carl Wessler
Pencils Bernard Krigstein
Inks Bernard Krigstein
Colors Marie Severin
Reprinted in Shock SuspenStories (Gemstone, 1994 series) #18 (December 1996); in B. Krigstein Comics (Fantagraphics, 2004 series) #nn

6 page Shock SuspenStories story "Rundown"

Synopsis 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.
Script Carl Wessler
Pencils Reed Crandall
Inks Reed Crandall
Colors Marie Severin
Reprinted in Shock SuspenStories (Gemstone, 1994 series) #18 (December 1996)