Shock SuspenStories #11 Gaines File Pedigree 8/11 (EC, 1953) CGC NM 9.4 White pages....

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Sold: Nov 6, 2025

Shock SuspenStories #11 Values

Publisher: EC, 1953

About Shock SuspenStories #11

Cover by Johnny Craig. Story art by Craig, Wally Wood, Reed Crandall, and Jack Kamen.

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COVER DETAILS

Pencils: Johnny Craig (signed)

Inks: Johnny Craig (signed)

Colors: Marie Severin

Letters: typeset

STORY DETAILS

(6 Stories)

Title: The Tryst!

Characters: Julie Adams [aka Julie Hendricks] (a secretary); Mr. Cowles (Hendrick's employee); Mr. Farnsworth (client of Hendricks, death); Tommy (an orphan, death); John Hendricks (villain, Julie's boss and later husband)

Synopsis: A man is so jealous of his wife that he murders a boy from the local orphanage that she has been spending time with in the woods.

Pages: 8.000

Script: Johnny Craig

Pencils: Johnny Craig (signed)

Inks: Johnny Craig (signed)

Letters: Jim Wroten

Notes: Russ Cochran, in the large-sized 2nd Volume of Shock Suspenstories, does not indicate that Craig wrote this story. Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-11. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

Title: in gratitude...

Characters: Marcia Norris; Andrew Norris (Marcia's husband); Joey Norris (war hero, the Norris' son); unnamed town Mayor; Hank (Jeoy's Army pal, death, flashback)

Synopsis: A Korean war vet berates his hometown because his black friend, who threw himself on a grenade to save his life, wasn't good enough to be buried in the town cemetery.

Pages: 7.000

Script: Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)

Pencils: Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)

Inks: Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)

Letters: Jim Wroten

Notes: Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-11. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with. Script revisions by Craig Delich.

Title: Deadbeat!

Characters: Mrs. Clark (the doctor's wife); Dr. Curtis Clark; Burt Devine (Mrs. Clark's brother, death)

Synopsis: Dr. Clark was furious with his wife, because she allowed her worthless brother to stay at their home and sponge off of them. One night, Burt, hungry for a midnight snack, and wanting to avoid his sister's cheap husband, decides to forgo the kitchen and try to find something to eat in the greenhouse. He does.....with fatal results!

Pages: 1.000

Script: Al Feldstein

Pencils: Marie Severin (spot illustration)

Inks: Marie Severin (spot illustration)

Letters: typeset

Title: The Space Suitors

Characters: Milton Griffith (death); Wanda Griffith (villain, wife of Milton, death); Donald Conrad (villain, Wanda's lover, death)

Synopsis: A woman and her lover plan to murder her husband out in space, but he outsmarts them by giving a signal to the rocket to blast off when he shot so that his wife and her lover will suffocate on the barren planetoid.

Pages: 6.000

Script: Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)

Pencils: Reed Crandall (signed)

Inks: Reed Crandall (signed)

Letters: Jim Wroten

Notes: Letterer credit per Al Feldstein and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-11. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with. Script revisions by Craig Delich.

Title: ...Three's A Crowd

Characters: Della (Alan's wife, death); Andy (friend of Della and Alan, death); Alan (Della's husband)

Synopsis: A jealous husband sends his wife and his best friend to their deaths when their suspicious behavior makes him leap to the conclusion that they are having an affair, but they are, in reality, planning an anniversary surprise.

Pages: 7.000

Script: Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)

Pencils: Jack Kamen

Inks: Jack Kamen

Letters: Jim Wroten

Notes: Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-11. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with. Script revisions by Craig Delich. Cover story.

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CGC Census Report*

Grade	NG	PG	CVR	0.5	1.0	1.5	1.8	2.0	2.5	3.0	3.5	4.0	4.5	5.0	5.5	6.0	6.5	7.0	7.5	8.0	8.5	9.0	9.2	9.4	9.6	9.8	9.9	10.0	Total
Universal	0	0	0	0	2	2	4	2	5	14	14	9	13	8	11	16	8	4	5	4	3	2	1	5	2	0	0	0	134
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
CGCxJSA	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Restored	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	6	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9
Total	0	0	0	0	2	2	4	2	6	14	14	9	19	9	11	17	8	4	5	4	3	2	1	5	2	0	0	0	143

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