*EC: Always a joy to welcome original ECs to our listings, for quality and workmanship in the genres they covered unsurpassed before or since. Three issues of Shock Suspenstories new in this week from the Bute Collection, the ‘sort of’ compendium title which featured horror, science-fiction and crime.
PICTURED: SHOCK SUSPENSTORIES
#11 VG £140 Pre-code. Art by Craig, Wood, Crandall, Kamen. Decent solid copy, slightly mis-cut, wear around staples, but firmly attached. Some edge wear, some fine creasing faintly breaking colour. Nice off-white to cream pages.
#13 FA+ £70 Pre-code. Art by Kamen, Wood, Crandall, Frazetta (his only EC solo story). Taped spine (causing cover buckling), and tape inside right cover edge. Small chips out cover edges. Staples seem firm, page quality is okay. SOLD
#14 GD/VG £130 Pre-code. Art by Kamen, Wood, Krigstein, Evans. Nice clean copy with 3 cm upper spine split. Good colour, minor edge wear, firm staples, nice off-white to cream pages. SOLD