Shock SuspenStories#6

Cover: Wally Wood

Shock SuspenStories #6

Dec 1952 · EC · 0.10 USD

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"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.

Contains 4 stories

Dead Right!

8 pp · Crime

Madame Vorna (fortune teller)J. Flag Marson (prison warden, mention only)Mr. Clayton (Cathy's boss)Cathy Finch Marno (office clerk, waitress, death)Charles Marno (villain, Cathy's husband, death)

Under Cover!

7 pp · Crime

Suzy Carson (death)Ed Fenton (newspaper editor)Sam Masters (newspaperman, death)Grand Master of the Black Vigilante Society (villain)two unnamed phony FBI agents (villains)unnamed Society members (villains)

Not So Tough!

6 pp · Science Fiction

Lieutenant Robert Arden (Astro-Navigator, later Rocket-Man 3rd Class, death)Sergeant Coogan (ship crewman, death)Seeley (crewman, death)Vice-Commander Philip Forbes (death)Commander Horace Bergman (villain, death)

Sugar 'N Spice 'N...

7 pp · Horror-Suspense

Johnny (Margaret's brother, death)Margaret (Johnny's sister, death)a witch [aka The Crab] (villain)

ComicBooks.com Value

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Raw (Good) $80

CGC 9.8 · 6 in census $9,567

CGC 9.6 · 4 in census $5,129

CGC 9.4 · 6 in census $2,547

CGC 9.2 · 3 in census $1,881

CGC 9.0 · 10 in census $1,261

CGC 8.5 · 13 in census $853

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CGC 8.0 · 32 in census $706

CGC 7.5 · 26 in census $314

CGC 7.0 · 26 in census $303

CGC 6.5 · 25 in census $303

CGC 6.0 · 26 in census $303

CGC 5.5 · 19 in census $303

CGC 5.0 · 27 in census $248

CGC 4.5 · 31 in census $202

CGC 4.0 · 27 in census $186

CGC 3.5 · 23 in census $171

CGC 3.0 · 21 in census $153

CGC 2.5 · 17 in census $137

CGC 2.0 · 7 in census $103

CGC 1.5 · 10 in census $80

CGC 1.0 · 4 in census $61

CGC 0.5 · 7 in census $46

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Full credits

writer Bill Gaines

writer Al Feldstein

artist, inker Jack Kamen

colorist Marie Severin

letterer Jim Wroten

cover pencils, inks Wally Wood

Reprints

Reprinted in E.C. Classic Reprint #8 (1974), Shock Suspenstories #1 (1981), Les Meilleures Histoires de... #[3] (1983), EC Classics #4 (1985), Gysertimen #4 (1987), Iskalde Grøss #3/1991 (1991), Iskalde Grøss #3/1993 (1993), Shock Suspenstories #6 (1993), Shock SuspenStories Annual #2 (1994), EC Archives: Shock SuspenStories #1 (2006), EC Sampler - Free Comic Book Day #[nn] (2008), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #2 (2012), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #7 (2014), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #14 (2015), Choke Gasp! The Best of 75 Years of EC Comics #[nn] (2019), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #34 (2023), Verta ja väristyksiä #[nn] (2023), Shock Suspenstories #1 (2023), Artisan Edition #[16] (2024)

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