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Issue: Shock SuspenStories #11
Publication Date: October 1953
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Issues: #11 of 18 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagEC
Brand: EC An Entertaining ComicView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Tiny Tot Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 07/20/1953
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 7 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On sale date as given in the copyright application as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, July-December 1953, page 310, registration number B427828.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing
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Gaines File Copy CGC NM+ 9.6
 
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, horror
Feature(s): Shock SuspenStories
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagShock Suspenstories #11 published March 1995
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Tryst!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): A Crime SuspenStory
Character(s): 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)
First Line: She was fresh out of high school...
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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #8/1992 published January 1992
as Stevnemøtet [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShock Suspenstories #11 published March 1995
as The Tryst! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Russ Cochran, in the large-sized 2nd Volume of Shock Suspenstories, does not indicate that Craig wrote this story.

Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.
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in gratitude...

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Marcia Norris; Andrew Norris (Marcia's husband); Joey Norris (war hero, the Norris' son); unnamed town Mayor; Hank (Jeoy's Army pal, death, flashback)
First Line: It was as if a huge blanket had suddenly fallen up the crowd...
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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagShock Suspenstories #11 published March 1995
as in gratitude... [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #2 published August 2012
as In Gratitude... [Story on Interior Page(s)]black-and-white reprint
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.
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Deadbeat!

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Mrs. Clark (the doctor's wife); Dr. Curtis Clark; Burt Devine (Mrs. Clark's brother, death)
First Line: Dr. Curtis Clark drew his bathrobe tighter around his ample stomach and snorted angily...
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!
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In Content Item: FlagShock Suspenstories #11 published March 1995
as Deadbeat! [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Shock Talk

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Shock Talk
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: The Editors push readers to join the new E.C. Fan-Addict Club.
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The Space Suitors

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): A Science-Fiction SuspenStory
Character(s): Milton Griffith (death); Wanda Griffith (villain, wife of Milton, death); Donald Conrad (villain, Wanda's lover, death)
First Line: It was almost time.
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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagShock Suspenstories #11 published March 1995
as The Space Suitors [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.
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...Three's A Crowd

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Della (Alan's wife, death); Andy (friend of Della and Alan, death); Alan (Della's husband)
First Line: Della had been acting strangely lately...
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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #4/1992 published January 1992
as Komplottet [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShock Suspenstories #11 published March 1995
as ...Three's a Crowd [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.

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