Fall Guy For Murder And Other Stories (Hardcover)

Surrounded by the ornate, retro, proto-splatter horror graphics of Jack Davis and Graham Ingels and the slick, futuristic sci-fi stylings of Wally Wood and Al Williamson, EC Comics superstar Johnny Craig stood out in the 1950s with his elegant, crisp, contemporary graphic style. And nowhere did this style work more beautifully than in the dozens of superb crime and horror comics he wrote and drew for EC, mostly for the two comics he also edited, Crime SuspenStories and The Vault of Horror. (Craig was the only EC artist to habitually write his own material for the entire length of EC's run.) Featuring murderous husbands and wives, executioners, thieving surgeons, vengeful sword-swallowers, time bombs, private dicks, vampires, werewolves, and ghouls, the 23 stories in this book comprise a perfect encapsulation of the very best and darkest kind of noir and horror writing, stunningly executed (in more than one sense of the word) by one of the great cartoonists of his (or any) era. And all in seven or eight pages per story Fall Guy For Murder And Other Stories is once again, as are the other EC Comic Library releases, supplemented with several fascinating essays and informative historical notes on the stories.

General

Imprint:	Fantagraphics Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2013
First published:	September 2013
Authors:	Gary Groth
Illustrators:	Johnny Craig
Dimensions:	261 x 183 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	198
ISBN-13:	978-1-60699-658-4
Categories:	Books > Fiction > Special features > Graphic novels
LSN:	1-60699-658-4
Barcode:	9781606996584

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