Shock Suspenstories

What's Shock Suspenstories #1 worth in 2024?

The highest quality book of Shock Suspenstories Vol #1 is a 9.8 copy from Gaines File Copy, valued at $6,400 in May 2010. In 2002, that same issue sold for over $7,100. A 5.0 copy has a May 2020 value of $495, more than doubling its $229 price from 2015. And a 1.0 copy sold in February 2019 for $239, being its only recorded sale.

Why is this comic book valuable?

Issue #1 of Shock Suspenstories Vol. 1 was published in February 1952, with a cover date of March 1952. It was written by Bill Gaines and Al Feldsteine, with pencil and ink by Jack Kamen, Jack Davis, Graham Ingels and Joe Orlando, colour by Marie Severin, and lettering by Jim Wroten.

Key Facts About the Comic

Shock SuspenStories was part of the EC Comics line in the early 1950s. It ran for 18 issues on a bi-monthly basis.

The cover art of issue #1 features some men gathered watching an electric chair execution.

Story Synopsis

The issue features some horror and mystery short stories:

1. The Neat Job!

An abused housewife married to a neat freak snaps one day and neatly dices the sections of her husband's body into small jars.

2. Yellow!

A Colonel's son is court-martialed for cowardice under fire and found guilty, sentenced to die by firing squad. Later, the Colonel lies to his boy, telling him that the rifles are loaded with blanks so that his son will go to his death like a man.

3. Last Will - 1-page print story

4. Alibi! - 1-page print story

5. The Monsters!

Aliens deposit their mutant births on Earth which appear as regular human beings to the Earth men, but for them, they’re some horrifying creatures.

6. The Rug!

Conrad and his friend Reggie head up to the big woods for some relaxation, as well as going hunting for a grizzly bear. However, Reggie voices his loathing for Cartwright's hunting of big game and then making rugs out of them. But Conrad is due for a surprise one night after he bags one grizzly and then hears another one out in the darkness.

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GD 2.0	VG 4.0	FN 6.0	VF 8.0	NM 9.4	RECORD SALE!
$160	$130	$400	$550	$2,950	$7,775

What's Shock Suspenstories #2 worth in 2024?

The top price recorded for a copy of Shock Suspenstories Vol #2 is $3,107, paid in November 2014 for a 9.8 book, which is a nice increase from its 2013 price of $2,685. A 6.5 copy has a value of $400 as of December 2017, after being valued at just $87 in 2003. And a 3.0 copy, the lowest quality book with a recorded sale, was valued at $140 as of September 2018.

Why is this comic book valuable?

Issue #2 of Shock Suspenstories Vol. 1 was published in April 1952, with a cover date of May 1952. It was written by Bill Gaines and Al Feldsteine, with pencil and ink by Jack Kamen, Jack Davis, Graham Ingels and Wally Wood, colour by Marie Severin, and lettering by Jim Wroten.

Key Facts About the Comic

The cover art for this issue features a group of men fighting in the street.

Story Synopsis

The issue features some horror and mystery short stories:

1. Kickback!

A young woman marries an older man for his money and gets tired of caring for him after a heart attack leaves him paralyzed. She comes up with a plot to stock the cellar with canned goods for three weeks and then pretends to be locked inside while her husband starves to death. It works, and she is cleared of suspicion in her husband's death, but the new man she meets manages to lock himself in the cellar without provisions for several days and is reduced to the same condition as her previous husband.

2. Gee, Dad... It's a Daisy!

Space explorers land on a planet teeming with intelligent carnivorous plants and fall victim to a demonstration of "She loves me...She loves me not..."

3. Time to Kill! - 1-page print story

4. Hiding Place - 1-page print story

5. The Patriots!

A mob at a military parade to honor wounded Korean War soldiers, whipped up by anti-communist sentiment, beats to death a blind war vet when he doesn't doff his hat to the flag during the parade.

6. Halloween!

On Halloween night, a new matron at an orphanage discovers the manager has been stealing the state's allotment for the children and he threatens to strangle her to keep her quiet. The children take matters into their own hands and use his hollowed-out head as a pumpkin.

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GD 2.0	VG 4.0	FN 6.0	VF 8.0	NM 9.4	RECORD SALE!
$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$3,289

What's Shock Suspenstories #3 worth in 2024?

A Gaines File Copy book of Shock Suspenstories Vol #3, rated 9.8, was sold for $2,520 in November 2018. That same copy was sold in 2017 for $2,271. A 5.5 book was sold in November 2015 for $149, being the only time it was sold; and a 3.0 book has a value of $131 as of August 2020, after slightly increasing its $110 price from 2017.

Why is this comic book valuable?

Issue #3 of Shock Suspenstories Vol. 1 was published in June 1952, with a cover date of July 1952. It was written by Bill Gaines and Al Feldsteine, with pencil and ink by Jack Kamen, Jack Davis, Wally Wood and Joe Orlando, colour by Marie Severin, and lettering by Jim Wroten.

Key Facts About the Comic

The cover art features a horrified man caught in a bear-trap, and a mountain lion preparing to attack him.

Story Synopsis

The issue features some horror and mystery short stories:

1. Just Desserts!

A man holds a dinner party for five people, who have done dirt to him in the past. At the meal, he proceeds to decapitate them.

2. The Guilty!

A bigot sheriff arrests a black man for the death of a white woman, based on the testimony of the man who actually committed the crime. The sheriff executes the suspect in the woods and claims he made a break for it.

3. Doc - 1-page print story

4. Jump-Off! - 1-page print story

5. The Big Stand-Up!

A broadcast technician falls in love with a woman, whose transmission he picks up from another planet, about eighty light years away. When she comes to him in a rocketship, Bart discovers that she’s about 200 feet high.

6. Stumped!

A trapper moves a rival's trap, hoping the man will step in it and die so that he can take over his territory. He does step in, but his desire for revenge is so strong that he chews through his own ankle in order to kill the guilty party before he expires.

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GD 2.0	VG 4.0	FN 6.0	VF 8.0	NM 9.4	RECORD SALE!
$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$2,520

What's Shock Suspenstories #4 worth in 2024?

A copy of Shock Suspenstories Vol #4 sold for $4,481 in November 2014, after being valued at $2,575 in June 2013. A 5.0 copy has a November 2019 price of $160, sold twice at that price. And a 1.5 copy was sold in December 2020 for $72, being the only time it changed hands.

Why is this comic book valuable?

Issue #4 of Shock Suspenstories Vol. 1 was published in August 1952, with a cover date of September 1952. It was written by Bill Gaines and Al Feldsteine, with pencil and ink by Jack Kamen, Jack Davis, Wally Wood and Joe Orlando, colour by Marie Severin, and lettering by Jim Wroten.

Key Facts About the Comic

The cover art features a man driving a car with a horrified look on his face.

Story Synopsis

The issue features some horror and mystery short stories:

1. Split Second!

A lumberjack boss blinds a young worker by hitting him in the head with a rock. Another lumberjack gags him and stuffs him in a hollow log for the blind boy to practice chopping through......and Liz, his wife, is next!

2. Confession

A Police Lieutenant murders his wife and then beats a confession out of an innocent by-stander.

3. Last Ride! - 1-page print story

4. Salvation! - 1-page print story

5. Strictly Business!

In the 21st century, marriage licenses must be renewed every three years. A man pays a woman thirty thousand dollars to be his wife for three years, but both agree on not having sex. She agrees, but over time, falls in love with him. At the end of the three years she tells him that she'll claim she's expecting a child and the license will automatically renew. But he tells her that she could not be expecting a child and reveals he is a robot, and that he only wanted a wife for a brief period of time, for business negotiation appearances.

6. Uppercut!

A fight promoter tells the boys he sends into the ring that they've got to have guts. One of the washed-up cases steals a drug from his brother in med school that will make a person look dead, but still be alive, so that the promoter will be buried alive. However, when the promoter comes to, he has not been buried but finds himself in a Police morgue, and he briefly looks down to see that his guts have been removed during the autopsy.

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GD 2.0	VG 4.0	FN 6.0	VF 8.0	NM 9.4	RECORD SALE!
$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$4,481

What's Shock Suspenstories #5 worth in 2024?

In September 2015, a 9.8 copy of Shock Suspenstories Vol #5 was sold for $5,200, nearly doubling its 2013 price. A 5.0 book was sold in October 2020 for $350, representing a good increase from its 2014 price of $81. And a 1.0 copy sold in December 2020 for $100, decreasing its June 2020 price of $127.

Why is this comic book valuable?

Issue #5 of Shock Suspenstories Vol. 1 was published in October 1952, with a cover date of November 1952. It was written by Bill Gaines and Al Feldsteine, with pencil and ink by Jack Kamen, Jack Davis, Wally Wood and Joe Orlando, colour by Marie Severin, and lettering by Jim Wroten.

Key Facts About the Comic

The cover art features some men gathered in a forest with torches, hanging a man.

Story Synopsis

The issue features some horror and mystery short stories:

1. Well-Traveled!

A husband goes mad and dismembers his wife after she refuses to let him spend money on toy trains once too often.

2. Hate!

A man has a plan to set fire to a Jewish couple's home, until his mother tells him he's adopted and that his true parents were Jews.

3. Justice - 1-page print story

4. What Fur?!!

Captain Limpfort is hired by a furrier to fly him to a planet in another Solar System in order for the furrier to trap and skin skunks, which he makes into fashion apparel. They soon learn that the planet is inhabited by aliens who skin humans for their own fashion apparels.

5. Cold Cuts!

A man murders his wife and cuts up her body in the tub to store in the meat locker. He’s unable to dispose of the remains until after his friend invites him for dinner, and, after he's taken a bite, his friend reveals to him that he borrowed the meat from the locker.

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GD 2.0	VG 4.0	FN 6.0	VF 8.0	NM 9.4	RECORD SALE!
$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$5,378

What's Shock Suspenstories #6 worth in 2024?

The top price for a copy of Shock Suspenstories Vol #6 is $15,535 for a very nice 9.9 book, sold in November 2015. It’s the only recorded price for this issue at an auction. A 5.0 copy has a June 2021 value of $2,000, more than doubling its $997 price from 2020. A 1.0 sold in October 2021 for $699, also being the only recorded price for this specific book.

Why is this comic book valuable?

Issue #6 of Shock Suspenstories Vol. 1 was published in December 1952, with a cover date of January 1953. It was written by Bill Gaines and Al Feldsteine, with pencil and ink by Jack Kamen, Graham Ingels, Wally Wood and Joe Orlando, colour by Marie Severin, and lettering by Jim Wroten.

Key Facts About the Comic

The cover art features a kneeling woman tied on the floor and a man with a white outfit and red mask beside her.

Story Synopsis

The issue features some horror and mystery short stories:

1. Dead Right!

A fortune teller predicts to a woman that a man who wants to marry her, but she doesn't like, is going to inherit $25,000 and die shortly afterward, so she decides to marry him. What the fortune teller doesn't tell her is that she wins the $25,000 as a prize, and when she tries to walk out on the slob, he murders her and inherits her money, to die in the electric chair shortly after.

2. Under Cover!

When Sam Masters sees a secret society whip a girl to death, he tries to contact the FBI before they manage to catch him.

3. The Bend! - 1-page print story

4. Not So Tough!

A space commander who is very tough and mean to his crew, is reduced to soft putty in the grip of a large gravitational force.

5. Sugar 'N Spice 'N...

A brother and sister lose their ball in the yard of an old woman whom they referred to as "The Old Crab". She eventually gives them the ball back, but she warns them to stay away. On Halloween night, the two play a prank on this woman, with a terrible outcome.

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GD 2.0	VG 4.0	FN 6.0	VF 8.0	NM 9.4	RECORD SALE!
$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$31,200

What's Shock Suspenstories #7 worth in 2024?

The highest quality book of Shock Suspenstories Vol #7 is a 9.8 book, valued at $3,655 in September 2013. It’s an increase from it’s 2021 price of $1,851, but both prices represent a decrease of its 2003 price of $4,715. A 5.5 copy was sold in 2015 for $220, after selling for $76 in 2014. And a 2.0, valued at $77, sold in January 2020, being the only time it changed hands.

Why is this comic book valuable?

Issue #7 of Shock Suspenstories Vol. 1 was published in February 1952, with a cover date of March 1953. It was written by Bill Gaines and Al Feldsteine, with pencil and ink by Jack Kamen, George Evans, Wally Wood and Joe Orlando, colour by Marie Severin, and lettering by Jim Wroten.

Key Facts About the Comic

This issue features an adaptation from a story by Ray Bradbury, one of the top American horror writers at the time.

Story Synopsis

The issue features some horror and mystery short stories:

1. Beauty And The Beach!

Two men are frustrated by the vanity of their attractive wives and the fact that they have offers to do some modeling and to participate in four beauty contests. One ends up encasing his wife in plastic while wearing her bathing suit, and the other broils his wife alive.

2. The Bribe!

A fire inspector commits suicide when a fire breaks out in a night club where he took a bribe to overlook code violations, because he thinks his daughter was killed in the fire, but what he doesn't know is that she and her fiance left and didn't stay for the show.

3. The Mountain Jackal - 1-page print story

4. Infiltration

A small government agency, responsible for ferreting out Martian infiltrators, is completely infested with Martian infiltrators except for a sole human whom they gun down.

5. The Small Assassin!

A mother is paranoid that her newborn baby is attempting to kill her, but she's right. The doctor who brought the child into the world, after finding her husband dead as well, decides to take care of matters.

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GD 2.0	VG 4.0	FN 6.0	VF 8.0	NM 9.4	RECORD SALE!
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What's Shock Suspenstories #8 worth in 2024?

The top price for Shock Suspenstories Vol #8 is $8,967, paid in February 2017 for a 9.8 copy. The previous time, it was sold for $5,079 in 2014. A 5.5 copy was sold in July 2021 for $475, greatly increasing its $151 price from 2017. And a 2.0 copy sold in January 2020 for $81 is the only price recorded for that issue.

Why is this comic book valuable?

Issue #8 of Shock Suspenstories Vol. 1 was published in April 1952, with a cover date of May 1953. It was written by Bill Gaines and Al Feldsteine, with pencil and ink by Jack Kamen, George Evans, Wally Wood and Al Williamson, colour by Marie Severin, and lettering by Jim Wroten.

Key Facts About the Comic

The cover art for issue #8 features a woman about to be killed with a knife held by two hands.

Story Synopsis

The issue features some horror and mystery short stories:

1. Piecemeal

A woman plots to give her naturalist husband an overdose of sleeping pills so that she can mingle with his younger brother. But before he passes, he acquires a large shark and places it in their outdoor pool where the wife regularly swims.

2. The Assault!

Lucy, who was spending hours away from home on a regular basis, comes home one night and claims that old Hodges kidnapped and raped her, to hide the fact that she had been with her lover. However, when the old man is killed and Lucy spurns her lover, he does the only honorable thing and kills her.

3. Suicide - 1-page print story

4. The Arrival

95,000 years after man destroys himself with nuclear weapons, the evolved rats develop space travel and meet their Martian neighbors.

5. Sleep No More!

After a man stabs a woman to death and stashes her body in the attic, he sees a huge bloodstain spreading across his ceiling. He tries to paint over it every day, but every morning it's there. He even puts a bucket on the floor to collect the blood, and it appears half full to him. When the suspicious detectives listen to his confession, they tell him there is no stain and no blood in the bucket.

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GD 2.0	VG 4.0	FN 6.0	VF 8.0	NM 9.4	RECORD SALE!
$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$8,963

What's Shock Suspenstories #9 worth in 2024?

There are no recorded sales for any copies of issue #9 of Shock Suspenstories.

Why is this comic book valuable?

Issue #9 of Shock Suspenstories Vol. 1 was published in June 1952, with a cover date of July 1953. It was written by Bill Gaines and Al Feldsteine, with pencil and ink by Jack Kamen, George Evans, Wally Wood and Al Williamson, colour by Marie Severin, and lettering by Jim Wroten.

Key Facts About the Comic

This issue features a story from Ray Bradbury, same as issue #8. 

The cover art features a man running away from a dead person grabbing his feet.

Story Synopsis

The issue features some horror and mystery short stories:

 

1. The October Game

A madman who hates his wife dismembers his daughter and passes around her body parts to children in a darkened cellar on Halloween.

2. Came The Dawn!

A man thinks that the girl he has met in the woods may be a dangerous escaped lunatic because she matches the description, but his girlfriend ends up dead as the latest victim of the true escapee.

3. Surgery! - 1-page print story

 

4. The Meddlers!

The folk of a small town try to drive away a doctor who is attempting to create life in a test tube. They smash his equipment while he suffers heart failure. His failed experiments combine in the sewer to create a blob-like living mass which devours the townsfolk.

5. Carrion Death!

A man handcuffed to a dead policeman is trying to make his way through the desert on foot. He realizes that he has to separate himself from the body but has nothing sharp to cut off the dead man's hand with. He decides to lie down and allow the vultures to strip the corpse, but when he regains consciousness the vultures have already started eating him as well.

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GD 2.0	VG 4.0	FN 6.0	VF 8.0	NM 9.4	RECORD SALE!
$180	$280	$380	$575	$1,550	$4,775

What's Shock Suspenstories #10 worth in 2024?

There are only two recorded sales for issues of Shock Suspenstories #10. Both of the books are 5.0 rated copies, one sold for $32 in December 2002, and the other sold for $60 in November 2017.

Why is this comic book valuable?

Issue #10 of Shock Suspenstories Vol. 1 was published in August 1952, with a cover date of September 1953. It was written by Bill Gaines and Al Feldsteine, with pencil and ink by Jack Kamen, George Evans, Wally Wood and Al Williamson, colour by Marie Severin, and lettering by Jim Wroten.

Key Facts About the Comic

The cover art features a couple throwing a man out of a window.

Story Synopsis

The issue features some horror and mystery short stories:

1. The Sacrifice

A woman manipulates a man into killing her husband by pretending to be in love with him. She and her lover (another man) work out a scheme where he claims to be a witness to the killing, and blackmails the two of them into letting him sleep with the woman. She continues the act, pretending to be degraded and begging for salvation, until the dupe finally writes out a confession, implicating only himself in the murder and swallows a bottle of poison. As the man is dying, she gleefully regales him with the details of their con.

2. ...so shall ye reap!

A young man sitting in the electric chair reflects on the events of his youth while his parents are sitting at home doing the same. The parents see their past actions in a positive light, but their son sees things from a different perspective.

3. Operation! - 1-page print story

4. Home Run!

Astronauts are approaching Mars when one of their number admits to them that he is really a Martian who designed the rocket in order to return home after his crash. The other astronauts think he has lost his mind and attempt to seize his gun, which they discharge, killing him. They land on Mars and notice that the body has regained its true form, and realize the creature was telling them the truth and that hostile Martians are now waiting outside to absorb their bodies and return to Earth as Martian infiltrators.

5. Sweetie-Pie

A reporter is put on a story involving people who have been in car wrecks, but their bodies are displaying evidence of puncture marks on their throats and all blood is drained from their bodies. The problem is: not all of the victims were found....just four of 16 bodies total. Soon, Philip and his new bride are involved in an accident, and he learns the true fate of all the victims: a ghoul has set up roadside hazards to procure fresh meat.

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GD 2.0	VG 4.0	FN 6.0	VF 8.0	NM 9.4	RECORD SALE!
$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0

What's Shock Suspenstories #11 worth in 2024?

The highest quality book of Shock Suspenstories #11 is a not-so-well kept 6.0 copy, valued at $25 as of December 2005. It was the only time it changed hands. A 4.5 copy was sold for $50 in September 2017, after increasing its 2002 price of $31, and a 2.5 copy sold for $66 in November 2020, also increasing its $41 value from the previous March.

Why is this comic book valuable?

Issue #11 of Shock Suspenstories Vol. 1 was published in October 1952, with a cover date of November 1953. It was written by Bill Gaines and Al Feldsteine, with pencil and ink by Jack Kamen, George Evans, Wally Wood and Al Williamson, colour by Marie Severin, and lettering by Jim Wroten.

Key Facts About the Comic

The cover art features two men fighting in a boat while a woman watches, horrified.

Story Synopsis

The issue features some horror and mystery short stories:

1. The Tryst!

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.

2. in gratitude...

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.

3. Deadbeat! - 1-page print story

4. The Space Suitors

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.

5. ...Three's A Crowd

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.

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GD 2.0	VG 4.0	FN 6.0	VF 8.0	NM 9.4	RECORD SALE!
$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$0

What's Shock Suspenstories #12 worth in 2024?

The top price for a copy of Shock Suspenstories #12 is $200, paid in February 2015. A 4.5 book had a value of $145 as of November 2019, and a 3.0 was sold in July 2021 for $160. All values are the only recorded sale for each issue.

Why is this comic book valuable?

Issue #12 of Shock Suspenstories Vol. 1 was published in December 1952, with a cover date of January 1954. It was written by Bill Gaines and Al Feldsteine, with pencil and ink by Jack Kamen, George Evans, Wally Wood and Al Williamson, colour by Marie Severin, and lettering by Jim Wroten.

Key Facts About the Comic

The cover art features a man having a bad heroin trip while laying in bed.

Story Synopsis

The issue features some horror and mystery short stories:

1. Deadline

An alcoholic ex-reporter tries to get back on his feet after meeting a girl, and his old boss says he can have his job back if he brings in a story. While sitting in a diner, he hears violence occuring in the next room, and the diner owner comes out and confesses to murder. Larry thinks he's found his story and takes down all the details, then checks on the girl and discovers two things about her: she is still alive and she is the girl he had met earlier!

2. The Monkey

A drug addict murders his father in order to get his fix.

3. Last Laugh! - 1-page print story

4. The Kidnapper

A man's baby is kidnapped and when his wife's mental health grows so bad that he desperately attempts to steal another baby, he is beaten to death by a crowd of onlookers for attempting to kidnap...his own son.

5. Fall Guy

A hotel clerk steals money from a diamond merchant and then rents a safety deposit box years in advance under the name 'Brad Gilbert'. He serves 15 years for the theft, then meets with the girl who promised to wait for him because she wants the money. Unable to remember the name he used, the girl berates his inability to recall the name, and he slashes her face with a steak knife. As the police close in on him, he jumps off a roof, clutching at letters of a sign, and, as he lies dying on the pavement, he sees the remaining neon letters spell out 'Brad Gilbert'.

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GD 2.0	VG 4.0	FN 6.0	VF 8.0	NM 9.4	RECORD SALE!
$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$5,022

What's Shock Suspenstories #13 worth in 2024?

The highest recorded price paid for an issue of Shock Suspenstories #13 is $3,000 for a 9.2 copy sold in August 2018, almost doubling its 2013 price of $1,655. Another copy, rated 5.5, was valued at $150 as of February 2012, being the only time it changed hands. And a 2.0 sold in November 2018 for $166, increasing its previous September price of just $52.

Why is this comic book valuable?

Issue #13 of Shock Suspenstories Vol. 1 was published in February 1954, with a cover date of March 1954. It was written by Bill Gaines and Al Feldsteine, with pencil and ink by Jack Kamen, George Evans, Wally Wood and Al Williamson, colour by Marie Severin, and lettering by Jim Wroten.

Key Facts About the Comic

The cover art features a woman falling from a roller coaster.

Story Synopsis

The issue features some horror and mystery short stories:

1. Only Skin-Deep: A man comes out of a car accident with amnesia and is met by a woman who claims to be his lover and that the two of them plotted to murder her husband for his insurance money. He travels to a cabin with her and when he slips and bumps his head, his memory returns. He strangles the woman because he recalls that he is not her lover but actually her husband, who had overheard their plans to kill him and got the jump on the other man and switched clothes before getting caught in the fire he set in the car's gas tank.

2. Blood-Brothers: A bigot finds out that his life was saved as a child by a blood transfusion from a black man.

3. Proposal: 1-page text story

4. Upon Reflection: A boxer feels guilty for killing a man in the ring when the man's widow screams at him that he's a 'beast'. After a short time, he starts to actually believe it.

5. Squeeze Play: A young man gets a girl pregnant and then murders her by throwing her out of a roller coaster car. He escapes and buries his clothes beneath the beach's boardwalk and tries to get a ride home with some girls. They cajole him into the surf and abandon him there when they see their boyfriends arrive, despite his protests that he can't swim.

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GD 2.0	VG 4.0	FN 6.0	VF 8.0	NM 9.4	RECORD SALE!
$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$3,000

What's Shock Suspenstories #14 worth in 2024?

The issue of Shock Suspenstories #14 with the highest value is a 9.2 copy, sold in January 2022 for $5,040, greatly increasing its 2012 value of $956. A 5.5 copy sold in December 2020 for $310, after selling in 2002 for just $55. And a 2.5 copy was sold in January 2020 for $51, being its only recorded sale.

Why is this comic book valuable?

Issue #14 of Shock Suspenstories Vol. 1 was published in April 1954, with a cover date of May 1954. It was written by Bill Gaines and Al Feldsteine, with pencil and ink by Jack Kamen, George Evans, Wally Wood and Al Williamson, colour by Marie Severin, and lettering by Jim Wroten.

Key Facts About the Comic

The cover art features a man shooting another man while a woman watches horrified.

Story Synopsis

The issue features some horror and mystery short stories:

1. The Orphan: A little girl murders her drunken father and frames her uncaring mother for the crime so that she can go live with her nice aunt.

2. The Whipping: A bigot murders his own daughter when she marries a Mexican man.

3. Blunderer: 1-page text story

4. You, Murderer: A story told in first person about the victim a hypnotist picks to do his dirty work, after his wife leaves him for another man.

5. As Ye Sow…: A husband hires a contract killer to trail his wife and murder the man she meets. The woman reconsiders her affair, decides to call it off, and returns to her husband. The husband is glad to have her back before he remembers what he's done. He sees the figure in the door and the flash of the gun. The last thing he ever hears is his wife begging him not to die.

Price Guide Report

GD 2.0	VG 4.0	FN 6.0	VF 8.0	NM 9.4	RECORD SALE!
$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$5,040

What's Shock Suspenstories #15 worth in 2024?

A 9.2 rated copy of Shock Suspenstories #15 sold for $1,560 in February 2019, after selling for $633 in 2004. In April 2021, a 5.0 copy sold for $500, after being valued at $285 in 2020. And a 1.8 sold in May 2020 for $5, being the only time it was sold.

Why is this comic book valuable?

Issue #15 of Shock Suspenstories Vol. 1 was published in June 1954, with a cover date of July 1954. It was written by Bill Gaines and Al Feldsteine, with pencil and ink by Jack Kamen, George Evans, Wally Wood and Al Williamson, colour by Marie Severin, and lettering by Jim Wroten.

Key Facts About the Comic

The cover art features a woman being choked by a demon-like creature.

Story Synopsis

The issue features some horror and mystery short stories:

1. Raw Deal: A man cannibalizes his new bride in order to survive being stranded at sea.

2. The Confidant: A mob beats to death a priest when the man refuses to betray the confession of a killer.

3. Slaughter!: 1-page text story

4. For Cryin' Out Loud!: A man's conscience bothers him so much after he strangles a woman that he has an uncontrollable urge to confess the deed to anyone in earshot.

5. Well Trained: A detective arrests the man burglar who murdered his wife when she surprised him and, after a brutal beating that hospitalizes him, continues to hound him in the hospital about the death he will receive in the electric chair. The man fixates on his vengeance to such a great deal that the killer flees the hospital and is struck by a subway car. The detective is tortured by the uncertainty of whether the killer burned by the third rail as he should have or if the train struck him first.

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GD 2.0	VG 4.0	FN 6.0	VF 8.0	NM 9.4	RECORD SALE!
$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$1,560

What's Shock Suspenstories #16 worth in 2024?

The top price for a copy of Shock Suspenstories #16 is $2,640 for a 9.4 copy, sold in February 2019. It sold for $1,100 in 2014. A 5.0 copy sold for $300 in September 2021, after selling for $228 the previous February. And a 1.0 sold for $30 in December 2019, being the only time it changed hands.

Why is this comic book valuable?

Issue #16 of Shock Suspenstories Vol. 1 was published in August 1954, with a cover date of September 1954. It was written by Bill Gaines and Al Feldsteine, with pencil and ink by Jack Kamen, George Evans, Wally Wood and Al Williamson, colour by Marie Severin, and lettering by Jim Wroten.

Key Facts About the Comic

The cover art features two men beating a confession from a suspect.

Story Synopsis

The issue features some horror and mystery short stories:

1. ...My Brother's Keeper: An evil Siamese twin murders but the state does not execute him as it would mean the death of the good one. The good one finally commits suicide to halt the evil of the other.

2. The Hazing: A college student wants to join a frat so he makes up a story about a professor they don't like being a communist in order to get him fired.

3. Slob!: 1-page text story

4. A Kind Of Justice: A mob beat a vagrant to death for the rape of a sixteen year old girl that the town sheriff has been violating.

5. The Pen Is Mightier: A newspaper columnist murders his gangster friend to get his wife and frames an innocent man for the crime through the power of his words.

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GD 2.0	VG 4.0	FN 6.0	VF 8.0	NM 9.4	RECORD SALE!
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What's Shock Suspenstories #17 worth in 2024?

The highest quality book of Shock Suspenstories #17 is a 9.6 rated book, sold for $1,434 in November 2014, which is a slight decrease from its 2013 price of $1,601. A 5.0 copy sold for $200 in August 2020, increasing its $61 value from 2013. A 2.0 sold in June 2020 for $135, after selling for $110 the previous January.

Why is this comic book valuable?

Issue #17 of Shock Suspenstories Vol. 1 was published in October 1954, with a cover date of September 1954. It was written by Bill Gaines and Al Feldsteine, with pencil and ink by Jack Kamen, George Evans, Wally Wood and Al Williamson, colour by Marie Severin, and lettering by Jim Wroten.

Key Facts About the Comic

The cover art features a woman finding her dead husband in her backyard.

Story Synopsis

The issue features some horror and mystery short stories:

1. 4-Sided Triangle: 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.

2. In Character: Boris Karloff murders all of his Hollywood contacts after he has been typecast in pictures.

3. Timetable: 1-page text story

4. The Assassin: An assassin unknowingly pursues his mark backstage of a theater and kills the man just before the curtain rises.

5. The Operation: A diamond thief surgeon cuts open his two goons to smuggle diamonds into the country in their bodies. When he gets a big one worth two hundred fifty thousand he tells the men he will operate on both of them, but place the diamond in only one so that they will not be tempted to disappear. The doctor sends them a note saying he will be delayed because he knows that this will play on their greed and they will turn on each other. They kill each other, but the doctor did not place the stone in either of them but himself.

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GD 2.0	VG 4.0	FN 6.0	VF 8.0	NM 9.4	RECORD SALE!
$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$1,601

What's Shock Suspenstories #18 worth in 2024?

The highest rated copy with the highest price for Shock Suspenstories #18 is a 9.4 book valued at $2,040 as of February 2019. It was previously sold in 2014 for $1,673. A 5.5 copy was sold once for $347 in May 2021, and a 2.5 copy sold in July 2020 for $135, increasing its $70 price from 2019.

Why is this comic book valuable?

Issue #18 of Shock Suspenstories Vol. 1 was published in November 1954, with a cover date of December 1954. It was written by Bill Gaines and Al Feldsteine, with pencil and ink by Jack Kamen, George Evans, Wally Wood and Al Williamson, colour by Marie Severin, and lettering by Jim Wroten.

Key Facts About the Comic

This is the last issue of the series. The cover art features two women fighting next to a scarecrow.

Story Synopsis

The issue features some horror and mystery short stories:

1. Cadillac Fever: A poor girl knows her father will never be able to afford to buy a Cadillac, so she murders her mother and swears in court that the father did it, so after he is executed he gets his long sought after ride in a Cadillac hearse.

2. The Trap: A husband is betrayed by his wife and funeral director when they plot to commit fraud to collect on his life insurance policy for his own murder. They plan to make him appear to be the victim of a mugging and then disappear in South America for a year. When his wife doesn't show with the money, he returns and they have him arrested and he ends up hanging for his own murder.

3. Blowhard: 1-page text story

4. In The Bag: A cop kills a man with a bowling ball in a bag thinking it's a head.

5. Rundown: A man commits murder attempting to acquire enough money to win back his wife's affections. He doesn't know that she and her lover have already made a plot to run him down. When they manage to hit him with the car, they are pleased to find that his wallet is flush with cash.

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GD 2.0	VG 4.0	FN 6.0	VF 8.0	NM 9.4	RECORD SALE!
$0	$0	$0	$0	$0	$2,040