Shock SuspenStories #6
"Dead Right!" from Shock SuspenStories #6 (1952) delivers a chilling twist on fate and greed, spun by Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein with sharp, unsettling precision. Jack Kamen’s stark art and Marie Severin’s bold coloring heighten the tension as a woman’s ill-fated marriage unravels in a deadly game of chance. Wally Wood’s haunting cover perfectly captures the story’s grim irony.
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A fortune teller predicts to a woman that a man who wants to marry her, but she finds repulsive, is going to inherit twenty-five thousand dollars and die shortly afterward, so she marries him. What the fortune teller doesn't tell her is that she wins the twenty-five thousand dollars as a prize, and when she tries to walk out on the slob, he murders her and inherits her money then dies in the electric chair.
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