#10

Synopsis

A woman manipulates a man into killing her husband by pretending to be in love with him, while she and her lover work out a scheme whereby he claims to be a witness to the killing and blackmails the two of them into letting him sleep with the woman. She carries on this act, pretending to be progressively degraded and begging for salvation, until the dupe finally writes out a confession implicating only himself in the murder and swallows a bottle of poison. She then gleefully regales the dying man the details of the con.

Notes

Reprinted in

• Nemi #4
• Shock Suspenstories #10
• Iskalde Grøss #2/1993
• The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #2— black-and-white reprint
• Iskalde Grøss #5 [1988]
• The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #9— Reprinted in black and white.
• The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #15— Reprinted in black and white.
• Shock Suspenstories #2
• The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #31— Reprinted in black and white.
• The EC Archives: Shock Suspenstories #2
• Shock Suspenstories #2

Credits

Script

Al Feldstein

Pencils

Jack Kamen, Jack Davis, Wally Wood, Joe Orlando, Reed Crandall

Inks

Jack Kamen, Jack Davis, Wally Wood, Joe Orlando, Reed Crandall

Colours

Marie Severin

Letters

Jim Wroten

Editor

Al Feldstein

Co-plot

Bill Gaines

Co-plot, script

Al Feldstein

Managing editor

Bill Gaines

Spot illustration

Marie Severin