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Issue Details

Issue #17
Published October-November 1954
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) #17 (September 1996)

8 page Shock SuspenStories story "4-Sided Triangle"

Synopsis A farmer tries to molest a retarded girl he keeps to work on the farm as a servant. She tells him that she's got a boyfriend that she sees in the evening. She goes out into the field to the scarecrow. The farmer gets the idea of disguising himself as the scarecrow so he can get what he wants from the girl. The farmer's wife is awakened by the sound of their love-making and goes out to the field with a pitchfork. When the girl tells the wife about her boyfriend, the wife tries to demonstrate to her that it's only straw by repeatedly stabbing the scarecrow with the pitchfork.
Script Carl Wessler
Pencils Jack Kamen
Inks Jack Kamen
Colors Marie Severin
Reprinted in Shock SuspenStories (Gemstone, 1994 series) #17 (September 1996)

7 page Shock SuspenStories story "In Character"

Synopsis Boris Karloff murders all of his Hollywood contacts after he has been typecast in pictures.
Script Albert B. Feldstein
Pencils Reed Crandall
Inks Reed Crandall
Colors Marie Severin
Reprinted in Shock SuspenStories (Gemstone, 1994 series) #17 (September 1996)

1 page text story "Timetable"

Script Albert B. Feldstein
Letters Typeset
Reprinted in Shock SuspenStories (Gemstone, 1994 series) #17 (September 1996)

6 page Shock SuspenStories story "The Assassin"

Synopsis An assassin unknowingly pursues his mark backstage of a theater and kills the man just before the curtain rises.
Script Carl Wessler
Pencils George Evans
Inks George Evans
Colors Marie Severin
Reprinted in Shock SuspenStories (Gemstone, 1994 series) #17 (September 1996)

7 page Shock SuspenStories story "The Operation"

Synopsis A diamond thief surgeon cuts open his two goons to smuggle diamonds into the country in their bodies. When he gets a big one worth two hundred fifty thousand he tells the men he will operate on both of them, but place the diamond in only one so that they will not be tempted to disappear. The doctor sends them a note saying he will be delayed because he knows that this will play on their greed and they will turn on each other. They kill each other, but the doctor did not place the stone in either of them but himself.
Script Albert B. Feldstein
Pencils Joe Orlando
Inks Joe Orlando
Colors Marie Severin
Reprinted in Shock SuspenStories (Gemstone, 1994 series) #17 (September 1996)