Al Feldstein

Our acclaimed EC Comics Artists Library collects the best comics of the 1950s from the greatest mass market comic book publisher in history. Featured in this latest set are: The Woman Who Loved Life And Other Stories, illustrated by Johnny Craig Atom Bomb And Other Stories, illustrated by Wallace Wood Man and Superman And Other Stories, illustrated by Harvey Kurtzman Terror Train And Other Stories, illustrated by Al Feldstein Collectively, that's more than 120 stories and more than 1,000 pages, plus rarities, bonus features, and insightful commentary from EC scholars. A superb gift for the person in your life who's into great comic art, illustration, or gripping storytelling

Jolting tales of criminals, capers, and tension, now in an affordable, oversized paperback Collecting issues #13-#18 of Crime SuspenStories from the twisted artistic talents of Al Feldstein, Johnny Craig, Bill Gaines, Jack Kamen, Sid Check, Al Williamson, Fred Peters, Graham Ingels, George Evans, Al Williamson, Joe Orlando, and more. Featuring a foreword by David del Valle

When Jack Davis took up his pen for EC Comics, he imbued his stories with a playful sense of (gallows) humor that made his innocent victims more eye-poppingly terrified, his ax-murders more gleefully gruesome, and his revenge-seeking corpses more morbidly motivated than any other EC artist. These horror and suspense tales -- from the pages of Vault of Horror, Haunt of Fear, Crime SuspenStories, and Shock SuspenStories -- include frightful fare such as "Hyde and Go Shriek ", "Tombs-Day ", "Witch Witch's Witch ", "Head-Room ", "Chop Talk ", "Coffin Spell ", and more, all leavened with the cackling, pun-laced wit of scripter Al Feldstein and illuminated as only the virtuoso brushwork of Jack Davis could present them. But the standout story has to be "Foul Play," the most infamous of all EC horror stories, in which a baseball team takes revenge on a murderous rival player by, um (spoiler alert), "repurposing" various parts of his anatomy for one final blood-spattered, organ-scattered inning. You'll never see a baseball game the same way again. And as gruesome as that sounds (and is ), Davis deftly pulls it off with aplomb and a mordant sense of absurd humor that will have you cringing and laughing at the same time. Plus, not one, not two, but three Davis-driven adaptations of haunting short stories by Ray Bradbury: "The Coffin ", "Let's Play Poison ", and "The Black Ferris ".We round out this volume with all three of Davis's EC science-fiction adventures, and all five of his aerial war stories from the legendary EC title, Aces High. 40 stories in all, most scripted by EC legend Al Feldstein, plus in-depth commentary by EC experts Thommy Burns and Grant Geissman.

No line of comics is more revered and more controversial than the late, great EC Comics, and no EC title is more associated with the legendary publisher than Tales from the Crypt. This volume of the complete collection of the revered magazine features classic tales of horror, murder, and the supernatural written by Al Feldstein and illustrated by Jack Davis, Graham Ingels, Jack Kamen, George Evans, Joe Orlando, and Marie Severin. This handsome hardcover volume collects Tales from the Crypt issues #29-#34, including the original stories, ads, text pieces, and letters.

Jack Kamen's stories for The Vault of Horror, Tales From the Crypt, and The Haunt of Fear favored unnerving creepiness over gruesome shock. With his penchant for deft delineations of scheming women, jealous husbands, murderous love triangles, and not-so-innocent children, Kamen's pen laid down a precise, sure line that brought each story's shock ending into sharp relief. This volume features 27 Kamen favorites, drawn at the peak of powers, including: "Kamen's Kalamity," our title story, featuring the "true" origin story of the artist himself When the pressures of drawing his stories, dealing with his editors, and pleasing his wife and kids become too much, comic book artist Jack Kamen loses it, and that night, when the moon is full ... "How Green Was My Alley," the cautionary tale of a traveling salesman who spends every other week at home with his wife. And every other other week at his other home with his other wife In a grisly finale, echoing the EC shocker "Foul Play," Kamen leaves nothing to the imagination "Beauty Rest" How far would you go to win a beauty pageant for the title of "Miss Corpse"? -- Well, this contestant is willing to go even further than that She had the looks, the ambition, and the smoldering sex appeal to play the world's oldest game and snag the man of her dreams -- the rich man of her dreams -- but it was never more than "Only Sin Deep." Then, Kamen switches from horror to horror-humor for all 13 of his classic "Grim Fairy Tales," revealing the gruesome underpinnings of the classics. You'll never look at Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Hansel and Gretel, or Little Red Riding Hood and their friends quite the same way again Plus: seven bonus crime and horror stories by EC short-termers John Alton, Frank Bolle, Leonard Starr, Bill Fraccio, Rudy Palais, and Ed Smalle. Introduction by Thommy Burns.Like every book in the Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library, Kamen's Kalamity And Other Stories also features essays and notes by EC experts on these superbly crafted, classic masterpieces.

In the years before the Comics Code, no comic mined the noir vein with more shocking impact and creative skill than EC Comics' Crime SuspenStories. Featuring vivid tales of larceny, adultery, and homicide by comics legends Al Feldstein, Johnny Craig, Graham Ingels, Wally Wood, Jack Davis, Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Kamen, and more, Crime SuspenStories remains a lurid landmark in the history of comics, and the EC Archives presents these scandalous stories in all their brazen brilliance. This value-priced volume collects Crime SuspenStories issues #1-#6, including the original stories, ads, text pieces, and letters.