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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN: 9781888472554
ISBN: 1888472553
Label: Gemstone Publishing
Manufacturer: Gemstone Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 212
Publication Date: February 28, 2007
Publisher: Gemstone Publishing
Sales Rank: 68495
Studio: Gemstone Publishing

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Editorial Review:

Product DescriptionEC 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.



Rating: - Uneven but eclectic and fascinating
First let me say that before I was
truly impressed by the quality of text
and art I wasn't overtly enthusiastic
about it.Being labelled
as "tame" by some readers and in the
beginning of its lifecycle, I was a bit
apprehensive to buy this expensive hardcover.
The plot ideas or "springboards" by William Gaines,
while not wholly original (the majority of them
"borrowed" from classic literary weird fiction
of such authors as William Hope Hodgson, ... Read More

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Rating: - Horror classic!
I used to read EC Horror Stories long ago, and always loved them. When I had the chance to buy the original Volumes, I ran and did it.

Great quality for a classic work, I really recommend it!

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Rating: - EC Comics Are the Greatest, but the Gemstone Reprints Are Garish Travesties
In April of 1950, William Gaines and his staff of writers and artists at EC Comics started publishing a line of comic books that were entirely devoted to the themes of horror and science fiction. Breaking with the convention of the superhero, the "funnies," the westerns, and the romance comic books of the day, their new format dispensed with the motif of a recurring character in a continuing storyline and, instead, offered five or six complete stories that were frequently inspired by classic genre literature ... Read More

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Rating: - EC at it's best yet!
First read an EC comic when I was 10 years old and have been hooked ever since. I am now 67. When the large slip-cover b/w reprints were issued I bought most of them. This Archive series is better than I expected. Any true EC fan would be foolish to pass up the opportunity to own this well produced set. The size, color, print, paper, presentation is all one could ask for. Beautiful and thank you Russ Cochran.

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Rating: - A Lesson
This book is a lesson in comic book writing and drawing. In its days Tales from the Crypt set new standards for comic books arguments and style.

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