First Look: EC Comics and Oni Press Give the Gift of SHIVER SUSPENSTORIES 2 #1 with 56 Pages of Fear on December 10th!
The holidays... Ain’t they horrifying?! EC’s newest annual tradition returns in a triple-sized celebration of dismemberment by way of merriment – with David M. Booher, Dan McDaid, Melissa Flores, Sami Kivelä, George Northy, Ben H. Winters, and more!
COVER A BY DUSTIN WEAVER
PORTLAND, OR (November 5, 2025) – THIS DECEMBER, EC COMICS KNOWS EXACTLY WHAT YOU WANT FOR CHRISTMAS: VENGEANCE! Oni Press, the multiple Eisner- and Harvey Award–winning publisher of groundbreaking comics and graphic novels since 1997, and William M. Gaines Agent, Inc. are proud to reveal a look into SHIVER SUSPENSTORIES 2 #1 – the next ghoulishly gangantuan, 56-page installment of EC’s newest holiday tradition!
Before this year’s giant-sized tome of gruesomely gift-wrapped delights arrives in stores on December 10th, we’re aching to share a tiny appetizer of the agonies that await within … with an early advance look at the story "Mistletoe" by George Northy (Yuletide) and Dan McDaid (Shazam!, EC's Outlaw Showdown).
Welcome back to SHIVER SUSPENSTORIES! On December 10th, We’re tying perpetual naughty-listers David M. Booher (Canto), Melissa Flores (Biker Mice from Mars), George Northy (Yuletide), and Ben H. Winters (Benjamin) to the dried-out Christmas tree in the family parlor . . . and gathering ‘round as artistic Tormentors-in-training Lukas Ketner (Count Crowley), Sami Kivelä (Abbott), Leomacs (Benjamin), and Dan McDaid (Shazam!) throw a few lit matches their way to get this old-fashioned solstice sacrifice started in style!
Yes, we know: It smells like dinner might be getting a little overdone! Never fear, because EC’s latest installment of this time-honored holiday tradition also comes complete with an extra-added EC Comics classic—newly restored back to its authentic original coloring! As you sift through the charred remains, just remember: SHIVER SUSPENSTORIES is here to bring the horror back to the holidays . . . and we wouldn’t want it any other way!
Celebrate the horrors of the holidays with a cornucopia of frosty covers by Dustin Weaver (Epitaphs from the Abyss), Adam Hughes (Catwoman), Shawn McManus (Fables), and Rian Hughes (The Multiversity), EC Comics is chilled to the bone to deliver this winter’s most frostbitten journey yet on December 10th – only in SHIVER SUSPENSTORIES 2 #1!
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SHIVER SUSPENSTORIES 2 #1 (ONE-SHOT)
WRITTEN BY DAVID M. BOOHER, MELISSA FLORES, GEORGE NORTHY, BEN H. WINTERS, & MORE
ART BY LUKAS KETNER, SAMI KIVELÄ. LEOMACS, DAN McDAID
COVER A BY DUSTIN WEAVER
COVER B BY ADAM HUGHES
EC HOMAGE VARIANT (1:10) BY SHAWN McMANUS
B&W ARTIST EDITION VARIANT (1:20) BY DUSTIN WEAVER
ARCHIVE EDITION VARIANT (1:50) BY RIAN HUGHES
ON SALE DECEMBER 10, 2025 | $8.99 | 56 PGS. | FC
IOC: 10/25/2025
FOC: 11/17/2025
"MISTLETOE" INTERIOR ART BY DAN McDAID
COVER A BY DUSTIN WEAVER
COVER B BY ADAM HUGHES
EC HOMAGE VARIANT (1:10) BY SHAWN McMANUS
B&W ARTIST EDITION VARIANT (1:20) BY DUSTIN WEAVER
ARCHIVE EDITION VARIANT (1:50) BY RIAN HUGHES
About EC Comics
As the birthplace of Tales from the Crypt, MAD magazine, Weird Science, and more of the most influential and celebrated comic series ever published, EC Comics has cemented itself as one of the central nerves of American pop culture with a legacy that spans more than seven decades. From 1944 to 1956, EC—established as “Educational Comics” by founder M.C. Gaines and later rebranded “Entertaining Comics” under the leadership of publisher and editor William M. Gaines—led a creative renaissance for the comics industry that, for the first time, elevated the once-derided comics medium into the echelons of English literature and high art. Heralded as “one of the great explosions of vox-pop literature” by Time magazine and “fiercely honest, politically adversarial, [and] visually masterful” by The Comics Journal, EC’s line of comics books—which collectively sold more than ten million copies annually at their peak—entertained and informed in equal measure, using brilliantly crafted tales of horror, science fiction, satire, and battlefield conflict to critique and subvert America's dark impulses toward violence, racism, inequity, environmental destruction, and war.
Forcibly shuttered by the Comics Code Authority—a pro-censorship group specifically tasked with eradicating EC’s illuminating influence from the American comic book industry—in 1956, EC’s unique brand of subversive storytelling lived on through the continued success of MAD magazine, which would fuel American counterculture through the death of publisher William M. Gaines in 1992. EC’s titles and stories have been adapted in a number of media—including HBO's long-running Tales from the Crypt franchise of television series and feature films—and continue to be celebrated by multiple generations of comic creators, filmmakers, comedians, and musicians as a seminal influence.
Today, EC Comics’ canon of classic stories can continuously be found in print through new editions at Dark Horse Comics, Taschen, Fantagraphics, and IDW Publishing. In 2024, EC announced a new partnership with multiple Eisner- and Harvey Award–winning publisher Oni Press to produce the first all-new EC Comics titles in nearly seventy years.