Ec comics, vilified in the 1950s, thrive 60 years later. Oclcs webjunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff as they consider how to handle coronavirus. Detroitbased critical care physician awdish began experiencing waves of abdominal pain and nausea while seven months pregnant with her first child and checked in at her workplace emergency department. I was wondering if the book had reached the point where grabbing a decent presenting 1. Language laws and formulas show business split personality stock room trope. A second amicus film, the vault of horror, also used stories from tales from the crypt and shock suspenstories despite its title, it did not use any stories published in the vault of horror comic. Featuing the titanic artistic talents of al feldstein, jack kamen, jack davis, joe orlando, graham ingles, and wally wood, with a foreword by steven. One second after is the story of a small town in the mountains of north carolina in the aftermath on a high altitude nuclear emp electromagnetic pulse. The artwork is magnificent by many of the same usual gang of idiots who created mad magazine, and even more significantly, the writing is very compelling some by the great ray bradbury among others. It has lots of action and enough red herrings to keep me hooked and. Shock illustrated was an american black and white magazine published by ec comics from late 1955 to early 1956. This volume reprints the second six complete issues 24 stories of the comic book shock suspenstories, originally published in 1953, and features a mixture of horror, crime, war and social issuebased stories, characterized by ironic o.
An homage film entitled creepshow followed, paying tribute to the tone, look, and feel of tales from the crypt and other ec comics, without. The attraction of shock suspenstories were its morality tales. The story the pen is mightier is entirely based around this trope. Ballantine books reprinted selected stories in a series of paperback ec anthologies in 196466. Shock suspenstories was one of five comics voluntarily folded by publisher bill gaines in 1955 due to the outcry over horror and crime comics. When a lumberjack boss blinds a young worker by hitting him in the head with a. Scroll down to add issues to your want list and well email you when they arrive. A shortlived but influential publisher of anthology comic books. Reliable information about the coronavirus covid19 is available from the world health organization current situation, international travel. Numerous and frequentlyupdated resource results are available from this search. Includes all the original ads, text pieces, and letters. Sep, 2017 but what i would like to focus on in particular is his work with suspense and horror comics, beginning with his illustrations for e. Wally wood selfportrait by wally wood 0 books illustrated by wood.
Aug 20, 2015 in this video i go over my very limited collection of original ecs. The second story in this issue is called the whipping, and was written by feldstein with artwork and inks by wally wood. The only thing missing from these reprints are the advertisements. Shock suspenstories has been reprinted numerous times over the years. Shock suspenstories vol 2 9 headhunters horror house.
Shop for shock suspenstories 1952 comics on, your friendly online comic book store. Around here, leaves are changing colors, the smell of wood burning in the distance is more frequent throughout the day and pumpkins are displayed on peoples front steps. August 7, 1991 a beautiful but loose barmaid michelle johnson marries a rich lumberjack brion james who offers her a comfortable lifestyle. Initially, those genres were crime, war, horror and scifi, although war slowly morphed into the eponymous shock suspenstory, which focused more on morality issues facing the america of the 50s. He was posthumously inducted into the comic book industrys will eisner comic book hall of fame 1993 and the jack kirby hall of fame 1997. Oct 24, 2017 a physician learns firsthand about the adverse aspects of the patient experience through her own catastrophic illness. Shock suspenstories read now checkout preordered manage preorders unavailable for purchase in your credit card on file lists an address in.
Welcome bidders you are bidding on a copy the ec archives shock suspense stories vol 1 ec comics entertaining comics were. Found on the inside front cover, which contains letters from marie raah, roger roberson, ruby macdonell, john gordon, r. Shock suspenstories complete shock suspenstories on ebay. Shock suspenstories, volume 1 shock suspenstories cover art detail ec comics joseph bottum april 16, 2016 5. Shock suspenstories in comparison to the other horror titles. Its a place where every leafy suburb hides a secret that escalates into calamity, and where on every city street theres a hustler or a hoodlum about to be hoist by his own petard. The ec archives shock suspenstories 1 npr coverage of the ec archives shock suspenstories 1 from dark horse books. Oct 03, 2015 its a gray, cold, rainy windy morning here in new englandreally starting to look and feel like autumn to me. The magazine was fully reprinted in a series of three blackandwhite hardbacks by publisher russ cochran as part of the the complete ec library in 1981. Its a treat to read these stories by artists and writers who were, at the time, perhaps the greatest comic creators in the business. The bimonthly comic, published by bill gaines and edited by al feldstein, began with issue 1 in februarymarch 1952. Shock suspenstories was part of the ec comics line in the early 1950s. Launched in 1952 at the height of ecs popular success and creative powers, and edited and written by feldstein, shock suspenstories featured a little bit of everything, roping together horror. This beautifully bound hardcover reprints the first six complete issues of the pulpcomic classic shock suspenstories.
The second group of reprints, known as the rcp russ cochran publisher reprints appeared the next year and also reprinted various issues from the horror, scifi and crime comics. Henry type twist endings, and including the first attempts in the comics medium to teach moral lessons. Please wash your hands and practise social distancing. Rather than a single issue being devoted to crime, or horror, etc. Ballantine books reprinted selected stories in a series of paperback ec anthologies in 19641966. Shock suspenstories were among comic books from the 50s that were part of the senate crusade to censor comics and protect our youth. Read shock suspenstories comic online free and high quality. Launched in early 1952, shock suspenstories was an anthology series that spanned the range of genres that e. I also manage to totally gloss over jack davis somehow. We combine shipping either wait for us to send you an invoice after you commit to buy or, if it makes you pay right away, message us back and well refund the excess charge. Shock suspenstories tales from the crypt wiki fandom.
Part of ecs pictofiction line, each magazine featured three to five stories. The magazine was fully reprinted in a series of three blackandwhite hardbacks by publisher russ cochran as part of the complete ec library in 1981. This tales from the crypt story was episode 11 from season 3, the first of four tales from the crypt episodes to be directed by russell mulcahy i thought split second was decent enough. I also had some money from the cancelled eccc to use. The narrative is focused around the actions of military history professor john masterson in his efforts to help his family and community to survive. A police lieutenant murders his wife and then beats a confession out of an innocent bystander. The complete shock suspenstories the complete ec library by. The first issue appeared with a cover date of septemberoctober 1955 and featured three psychologythemed stories. Shock suspenstories 14 headhunters horror house wiki. Check out our resources for adapting to these times. Not presented as twee homilies but as hard edged stories that showed the dark side of human nature. The crypt cast panels from the story, split second, which. Shock suspenstories, the ec archives, volume 2 contains full color glossy reprints of issues 712 of shock suspenstories. Shock suspenstories vol 1 4 hey kids comics wiki fandom.
Nov 28, 2006 the attraction of shock suspenstories were its morality tales. Split second gives us some lumberjack ghoulishness notable for the fact that it. Over a fouryear span, it ran for 18 issues, ending with the decemberjanuary 1955 issue. Tales from the crypt was the most famous of the horror and crime comics. Shock suspenstories volume 1 july 2006 indexer notes. Story by bill gaines and al feldstein art by jack kamen confession story by bill. Shock suspenstories 1992 gemstone comic books mycomicshop.
It happened quite often in crime suspenstories and shock suspenstories but the darkest example has to be a kind of justice. Sign up to receive email newsletters about david baldaccis new books, appearances, giveaways, promotions. All of the stories in this book were conceived in story conferences between ec publisher bill gaines and ec editor al feldstein, and were written and edited by al feldstein. The ec archives are an ongoing series of american hardcover collections of fullcolor comic book reprints of ec comics, published by russ cochran and gemstone publishing from 2006 to 2008, and then continued by cochran and grant geissmans gc imprint 20112012, and finally taken over by dark horse in.
This beautifully bound hardcover reprints the first six complete issues 24 stories of the comic book shock suspenstories, originally published in 1952. Featuing the titanic artistic talents of al feldstein, jack kamen, jack davis, joe orlando, graham ingles, and wally wood, with a foreword by steven spielberg. When a lumberjack boss blinds a young worker by hitting him in the head with a rock, the other lumberjacks gag him and stuff him in a hollow. The artists drew one to four panels per page with the text overlaid onto the artwork. Front covers were by feldstein, wally wood, johnny craig, george evans and jack kamen. When a lumberjack boss blinds a young worker by hitting him in the head with a rock, the other lumberjacks gag him and stuff him in a hollow log for the blind boy to practice chopping through. When a lumberjack boss blinds a young worker by hitting him in the head with a rock, the other lumberjacks gag him and stuff him in a hollow log for the blind boy to practice chopping throughand liz, his wife, is next. This edit will also create new pages on comic vine for. Starting in 1992, the comics were reprinted in chronological order in a 32page form. Beware, you are proposing to add brand new pages to the wiki along with your edits. Letterer credit per russ cochran and added by craig delich 20122. Shock suspenstories comic read shock suspenstories comic.
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