Shock SuspenStories #15
"Raw Deal" in Shock SuspenStories #15 (1954) delivers a chilling, morally complex tale from writer Carl Wessler and artist George Evans, with inks by Evans and coloring by Marie Severin. A detective’s quest for vengeance after his wife’s murder spirals into obsession when he tortures the convicted killer, only to be haunted by the uncertainty of how the man died—struck by a subway or executed by the third rail. The cover by Jack Kamen captures the story’s grim intensity.
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A detective arrests the burglar who murdered his wife. The detective brutally beats the man, hospitalizes him, and hounds him in the hospital about the death he will receive in the electric chair. The detective fixates on his vengeance to such a degree that the killer flees the hospital and is struck by a subway car. The detective is tortured by the uncertainty of whether the killer was electrocuted by the third rail or if the train struck him first.
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