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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.
Just as Frank Sinatra had an additional and invaluable career as the great preservationist and evangelist of the American popular song (with particular focus on the Lost and Found), so author-actor-singer-director Bruce Kimmel has additionally served the cause of Broadway and Hollywood beyond measure, producing some of the most memorable vocalists of our time in recordings that give new life to music that might otherwise be forgotten, while renewing and revitalizing the theatrical canon with his impeccable taste and unerring musicality. In his usual engaging and endearing style, he at last gives us a first-hand view of his process. For this terrific chronicle, and for his immeasurable contri...
Volume 1: "Foreword by Robert Englund -- Volume 2: "Foreword by Tim Sullivan -- Volume 3: "Introduction by Grant Geissman; foreword by Cullen Bunn -- Volume 4: "Introduction by Grant Geissman; foreword by Rob Zombie -- Volume 5: "Foreword by Clive Barker."
Volume 1: "Foreword by Robert Englund -- Volume 2: "Foreword by Tim Sullivan -- Volume 3: "Introduction by Grant Geissman; foreword by Cullen Bunn -- Volume 4: "Introduction by Grant Geissman; foreword by Rob Zombie -- Volume 5: "Foreword by Clive Barker."
The Advocate is a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) monthly newsmagazine. Established in 1967, it is the oldest continuing LGBT publication in the United States.
Experience the dangers and thrills of aerial combat with Aces High! This handsome volume collects issues #1-5 of the classic war comic, including unforgettable stories from the all-star artistic lineup of George Evans, Wally Wood, Jack Davis, Bernie Krigstein, Irv Werstein, Carl Wessler, and Jack Oleck. • Aces High issues #1-5, the complete series, in full color! • Features stories drawn by all-star comic artists George Evans, Wally Wood, Jack Davis, and Bernie Krigstein! • Dark Horse reprints the infamous comic series, including all the original ads, text pieces, and letters!
2020 Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work Entertaining Comics Group (EC Comics) is perhaps best-known today for lurid horror comics like Tales from the Crypt and for a publication that long outlived the company’s other titles, Mad magazine. But during its heyday in the early 1950s, EC was also an early innovator in another genre of comics: the so-called “preachies,” socially conscious stories that boldly challenged the conservatism and conformity of Eisenhower-era America. EC Comics examines a selection of these works—sensationally-titled comics such as “Hate!,” “The Guilty!,” and “Judgment Day!”—and explores how they grappled with the civil rights struggle, an...
The classic EC series, presented as a deluxe-size trade paperback! This high-quality trade reprints the first six complete issues of the pulp-comic classic Shock SuspenStories! Featuring the titanic artistic talents of Al Feldstein, Jack Kamen, Jack Davis, Joe Orlando, Graham Ingles, and Wally Wood, with a foreword by Steven Spielberg! Collects Shock SuspenStories issues #1-#6.
Now available in an affordable paperback edition, Shock SuspenStories Volume 3 continues the fabled EC tradition of presenting the finest noir comics of the era. These hard-as-nails tales of betrayal, larceny, and murder are the works of legendary creators Al Feldstein, Wally Wood, Jack Davis, Reed Crandall, Jack Kamen, and more. Includes “Squeeze Play,” the only EC story illustrated solely by Frank Frazetta—who appears as the main character in the story! Collects Shock SuspenStories #13–#18 and features a foreword by comics superstar Brian Michael Bendis.