EC JACK KAMEN AL FELDSTEIN 3 FOR MONEY & OTHER STORIES HC
(W) JACK KAMEN (A) Al Feldstein
This volume of the New York Times' bestselling series includes the infamous "The Orphan" - one of the stories that got EC Comics into hot water during the U.S. Senate's investigation into comic books. Also included are "The October Game," "Frozen Assets!" and "Standing Room Only" along with the title story, all pains-takingly restored. Like every book in The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library, this volume also features essays and notes by EC experts on these classic masterpieces.
EC JACK KAMEN AL FELDSTEIN DADDY LOST HIS HEAD HC
(W) Al Feldstein (A) JACK KAMEN
Famed for his deft delineations of beautiful, scheming women, handsome jealous husbands, and not-so-innocent children, JACK KAMEN returns with a collection of over 20 classic EC horror tales from The Vault of Horror, Tales From the Crypt, and The Haunt of Fear. Like every book in the Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library, Daddy Lost His Head and Other Stories also features essays and notes by EC experts on these superbly crafted, classic masterpieces.
EC JACK KAMEN AL FELDSTEIN MARTIAN MONSTER HC
(W) Gardner Fox (A) JACK KAMEN (CA) JACK KAMEN
Sci-fi classics from an EC Comics great! In JACK KAMEN's first stories for Weird Science and Weird Fantasy, he and writer Al Feldstein explore the unexpected twists and turns that arise from the unintended consequences of new inventions such as matter transmitters, molecular duplicators, shrinking rays, time machines, and too-perfect robots. Well-known for his sure hand and slick line and his chic depictions of 1950s-style glamour, Kamen delights in bringing Feldstein's wicked scripts to graphic life-but there's surprisingly sharp social and political commentary as well, with stories that foreshadow the threat of climate change and the perils of artificial intelligence. From the creation of a miniature civilization to femmes fatale from the future to the precise prediction of the sun going nova, you'll find this collection of sci-fi shockers to be some weird science, indeed!
EC JACK KAMEN FORTY WHACKS & OTHER STORIES HC
(W) Al Feldstein (A) JACK KAMEN (CA) JACK KAMEN
JACK KAMEN's precise, clean style was perfect for tales of men and women who act on the base instincts behind their glamorous façades. Enter the twisted world of Kamen's crime capers with stories like "Forty Whacks", "Contract for Death", "The Neat Job!", "Just Desserts!" plus 20 more tales of tension as only EC could do them! Like every book in the Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library, Forty Whacks and Other Stories also features essays and notes by EC experts on these superbly crafted, classic masterpieces.
EC JACK KAMEN ZERO HOUR & OTHER STORIES HC
(W) Al Feldstein (A) JACK KAMEN (CA) JACK KAMEN
With his wholesome approach, JACK KAMEN stood out amongst the grand-guignol grunge, gritty realism, or futuristic dazzle of his fellow EC cartoonists ? but his brilliant editor/writer Al Feldstein found a way to exploit the surface innocence of his style with seemingly nice stories of romance gone horribly wrong, or future fantasies with an unexpectedly brutal twist. And nowhere did Kamen's clean-but-lush graphics work better than in the stories he created for EC's science-fiction comics. The title story, "Zero Hour" (one of three in this book adapted from works by Ray Bradbury), set in a Spielbergian suburban idyll, is particularly well served by Kamen's surface innocence; "A Lesson in Anatomy" works similar magic, with its Mayberry-esque setting veering into alien-invasion terror. If there was any devil in Kamen, it came out in his loving depiction of the female face and form, and you could see why his hapless heroes were often fatally entranced with them ? as in "Punishment Without Crime" (Bradbury again), "He Who Waits!" (a scientist finds an extreme way of rejoining his eight-inch-tall inamorata), and "Miscalculation!" (the lucky recipient of a package from the future literally brews his own harem); even the supercomputer in "Only Human!" proves vulnerable to a beautiful woman's charms. Zero Hour and Other Stories contains 22 classic EC yarns ? plus the usual all-new biographical, historical, and critical essays that have made Fantagraphics' EC Library series the ultimate version of these classics.