#17

Synopsis

A farmer tries to molest a retarded girl he keeps to work on the farm as a servant. She tells him that she's got a boyfriend that she sees in the evening. She goes out into the field to the scarecrow. The farmer gets the idea of disguising himself as the scarecrow so he can get what he wants from the girl. The farmer's wife is awakened by the sound of their love-making and goes out to the field with a pitchfork. When the girl tells the wife about her boyfriend, the wife tries to demonstrate to her that it's only straw by repeatedly stabbing the scarecrow with the pitchfork.

Notes

Reprinted in

• EC Horror Library of the 1950's #[nn]
• Shock Suspenstories #17
• Iskalde Grøss #7/1990
• Iskalde Grøss #4/1993
• Iskalde Grøss #5/1993
• Iskalde Grøss #1/1994
• The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #11— Reprinted in black and white.
• The EC Archives: Shock SuspenStories #3
• Gysertimen #3
• Shock Suspenstories #3
• The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #19— Reprinted in black and white.
• The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #31— Reprinted in black and white.
• The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #35— Reprinted in black and white.

Credits

Script

Carl Wessler, Al Feldstein

Pencils

George Evans, Jack Kamen, Reed Crandall, Joe Orlando

Inks

George Evans, Jack Kamen, Reed Crandall, Joe Orlando

Colours

Marie Severin

Letters

Jim Wroten

Editor

Al Feldstein

Managing editor

Bill Gaines