Shock SuspenStories #2
"Kickback!" from Shock SuspenStories #2 (1952) delivers a chilling twist on greed and consequence, written by Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein and illustrated by Jack Kamen, with inks by Kamen and colors by Marie Severin. The story follows a young woman who, after marrying an older man for his wealth, orchestrates a cold-blooded plan to eliminate him—only to face a grim echo of her own design when her new lover accidentally meets the same fate. The cover, penciled and inked by Wally Wood, captures the story’s tense, unsettling mood in sharp, striking detail.
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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.
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