Tales from the Crypt, Vol. 1: Issues 1-6 (The EC Archives)

FELDSTEIN, Al

ISBN 10: 1888472553 / ISBN 13: 9781888472554

Published by Gemstone Publishing, Timonium, MD, 2006

About this Item

Quarto. 8.25 x 11.25 in. 212 pp. Profusely illustrated with color reproductions of comic art. Fine in original glossy pictorial paper-covered boards and fine pictorial wrappers. With a foreword by John Carpenter.

Seller Inventory # 7451

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tales from the Crypt, Vol. 1: Issues 1-6 (The EC Archives)
• Publisher: Gemstone Publishing, Timonium, MD
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1888472553
• ISBN 13: 9781888472554
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Comics & Graphic Novels

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Synopsis

• EC Comics (Entertaining Comics) were all published from the late 1940s until around 1956, when the Comics Code Authority whitewashed all comic books to remove all themes of horror and violence. Psychiatrist Fredric Wertham and Senator Estes Kefauver's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency attacked horror comics as causes of the rise in juvenile delinquency and crimes by minors. These comic books were accused of having no redeeming value to society and were effectively banned by the actions of these groups in creating the Comics Code. EC Comics were superior to other comics of the 1950s because of a higher quality of writing and artwork, and they were widely imitated by other comics publishers. The subject matter for EC Comics were horror, science fiction/fantasy, crime stories, war stories and stories with a social message that generally had a twist or "shock" ending.
• This volume reprints the first six complete issues (24 stories) of the comic book Tales From the Crypt, originally published in 1950, and features classic horror stories of vampires, werewolves, ghouls and monsters in the vein of hte early Dracula, Frankenstein and Wolf Man movies. This title was EC's best seller, and was the inspiration of several feature films and the HBO series of the same name.