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ISSUE SUMMARY

Publisher: EC
Title: Shock SuspenStories
Page Count: 36
Genre: Crime, Horror-suspense, Science Fiction
Era: Golden
Cover Price: 0.10 USD
Cover Date: February 1953
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Country: United States
Two men are frustrated by the vanity of their attractive wives and the fact that they have offers to do some modeling and to participate in four beauty contests. One encases his wife in plastic while wearing her bathing suit, and the other broils his wife alive under forty sun lamps.; A fire inspector commits suicide when a fire breaks out in a night club where he took a bribe to overlook code violations. He thinks his daughter was killed in the fire with the other patrons because of a photo taken of her earlier that evening, but what he doesn't know is that she and her fiancee have eloped and didn't stay for the show.; A mother is paranoid that her newborn baby is attempting to kill her. She's right. And the doctor, who brought the child into the world, after finding her husband dead as well, decides to take care of matters......in his own way!; This story postulates that a small government agency responsible for ferreting out Martian infiltrators is completely infested with Martian infiltrators except for a sole human whom they gun down.