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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published July 1954
Cover Price $0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stanley Morse?

Cover Details - "a doctor examines a woman while a zombie looks on"

Genre Horror
Pencils Bernard Baily?

5 page story "Insane"

Synopsis A woman and her lover try to drive her husband crazy by amplifying sounds and claiming he's hearing things, but he discovers their plan.
Genre Horror
Reprinted in Tales Too Terrible to Tell (New England Comic Press Inc, 1989 series) #1 [in black and white]

5 page story "Last Supper!"

Synopsis A man feeds an exploding powder to his girlfriend's husband to get rid of him, but it destroys the entire universe.
Genre Horror
Script Bruce Hamilton
Pencils Sal Trapani
Inks Sal Trapani
Notes Writer credit and reprint credit for Shock #1 from index for Tales Too Terrible to Tell #6. Sal Trapani's signature appears as a newspaper headline in the first panel.
Reprinted in Shock (Stanley Publications, 1969 series) #v1#1; in Tales Too Terrible to Tell (New England Comic Press Inc, 1989 series) #6 [in black and white]

6 page story "Hallucinations!"

Synopsis A man captures his own invisible alter-ego, then finds his alter-ego capturing it's own alter-ego.
Genre Horror
Reprinted in Tales Too Terrible to Tell (New England Comic Press Inc, 1989 series) #3 [in black and white]

3 page story "The Man Who Never Smiled"

Synopsis A rich man who never smiles gets attacked in his cave by a greedy man who nobody will ever miss...
Genre Horror
Script Basil Wolverton?
Pencils Basil Wolverton
Inks Basil Wolverton
Reprinted from Weird Mysteries (Key Publications, 1952 series) #4 (April 1953).

2 page text story "First Come, First Served!"

Synopsis A man hires a killer to kill his wife by poisoning her licorice.
Genre Horror
Letters Typeset

6 page story "The Gorilla"

Synopsis A woman is compelled to marry a gorilla.
Genre Horror