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Title: SHOCK SUSPENSTORIES No. 17
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Publisher:EC [Indicia: Tiny Tot Comics, Inc.]
Date Published: October-November, 1954
Description: CGC certified: VG/Fine (5.0). White pages. Grader notes: Light spine stress lines to cover; light tears to cover; moderate creasing to cover; very light fingerprints on cover.

CGC Census: 113 graded copies (111 Universal, 2 Restored).

GPAnalysis: A 5.0 sold for $480 in 11/23; a 4.5 sold for $325 in 1/24.

Credits: Cover: George Evans. Scripts: Carl Wessler and Al Feldstein. Art: Jack Kamen, Reed Crandall, George Evans, and Joe Orlando.Straw Man Phallus-y: George Evans's cover teases a Jack Kamen tale in which it's strongly suggested that a simpleminded farm girl fellates a dirty old duffer in a scarecrow suit.
"Fiendishly diabolical guys that we were, we were always trying to slip stuff in that the sharpies would see, and maybe we wouldn't get caught. In those days, sex was... you weren't writing much about it. Tropic of Cancer hadn't been published yet, you know, and there was still a big fuss going on about all that, and so we did suggestive things where we could. Somebody – you? caught [the implied fellatio] that scarecrow story." – Al Feldstein interview, The Comics Journal Library Volume 10: The EC Artists Part 2, p. 67.______________________________________________________________

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