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Shock Illustrated
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Shock Illustrated (1955)

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Shock Illustrated #1

EC ⋅ 1955

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$45

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One of publisher EC's ‘Picto-Fiction’ magazines, a short-lived and commercially unsuccessful format created to circumvent the newly-formed Comics Code requirements

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One of publisher EC's ‘Picto-Fiction’ magazines, a short-lived and commercially unsuccessful format created to circumvent the newly-formed Comics Code requirements

Shock Illustrated #2

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EC ⋅ 1956

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$35

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$330

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The final newsstand edition of EC's flagship Picto-Fiction magazines, created in an ill-fated attempt to skirt the newly enacted Comics Code regulations

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The final newsstand edition of EC's flagship Picto-Fiction magazines, created in an ill-fated attempt to skirt the newly enacted Comics Code regulations

Shock Illustrated #3

EC ⋅ 1956

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$600

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$1.8k

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$6k

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Final EC comic published, with the exception of Mad Magazine

Considered the rarest EC publication, this issue had an extremely limited circulation of approximately 100 copies, most of which were distributed to staff and subscribers

Due to financial difficulties exacerbated by the widespread adoption of the Comics Code Authority, EC could not afford to bind (staple) the printed pages

As a result, nearly the entire print run of approximately 250,000 copies was destroyed

Although Shock Illustrated #4 was produced, it was never published until 2006, when all four issues (#1–#4) were released in a hardcover collection

Key Facts

Final EC comic published, with the exception of Mad Magazine

Considered the rarest EC publication, this issue had an extremely limited circulation of approximately 100 copies, most of which were distributed to staff and subscribers

Due to financial difficulties exacerbated by the widespread adoption of the Comics Code Authority, EC could not afford to bind (staple) the printed pages

As a result, nearly the entire print run of approximately 250,000 copies was destroyed

Although Shock Illustrated #4 was produced, it was never published until 2006, when all four issues (#1–#4) were released in a hardcover collection

	Publisher	Low	Mid	High
Shock Illustrated #1	EC	$45	$120	$425
Shock Illustrated #2	EC	$35	$100	$330
Shock Illustrated #3	EC	$600	$1.8k	$6k

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