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Title: SHOCK SUSPENSTORIES No. 12
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Publisher:EC [Indicia: Tiny Tot Comics., Inc.]
Date Published: December-January 1953
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CGC certified: Fine- (5.5). Off-white to white pages. Cover: Al Feldstein. Plots and Scripts: Bill Gaines, Al Feldstein. Art: Wally Wood, Jack Kamen, Reed Crandall, Joe Orlando. GPAnalysis: A 5.5 sold for $588 in 10/20.

Feldstein's cover illustrates Joe Orlando's "The Monkey," in which a drug-addled teen quickly progresses from reefers to patricide. The '50's hep-talk will delight students of antiquarian slang ("'ROACH' is 'JIVE-T'...'JOINT'...A REEFER....POT GRASS BUTTS, you square"), and the prices will elicit nostalgic sighs from modern-day jive-T-totalers: "TWO BITS... for ONE LOUSY BUTT?"

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