Came the Dawn and Other Stories (The EC Artists' Library Vol. 2) - First Printing

Product Code: 70283
Came the Dawn and Other Stories (The EC Artists' Library Vol. 2) - First Printing

Came the Dawn and Other Stories (The EC Artists' Library Vol. 2) - First Printing

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Came the Dawn collects all 26 Wood-drawn EC horror and crime stories.

From the publisher:

2013 Harvey Award Nominee: Best Domestic Reprint Project

Working within the horror, war, crime, and science fiction genres, publisher William Gaines and editor/writer Al Feldstein combined a deliciously disreputable, envelope-pushing sensibility with moments of genuine, outraged social consciousness, which shone a hard light onto such hot-button topics as racism, anti-Semitism, mob justice, and misogyny and sexism.

The 1950s were also a launching pad for some of the greatest comic book artists in history, many of whom worked for EC -- including Wallace Wood, whose hypnotically detailed, lushly expressive brushwork brought to life menacing thugs, ominous cityscapes, and small-town America, as well as Everymen grappling with profound moral issues -- not to mention some of the most heart-stoppingly beautiful women ever to sashay across a comic book page.

Came the Dawn collects all 26 Wood-drawn horror and crime stories -- including the full baker's dozen of EC's most courageous and politically charged dramas.

Taking its title from one of Wood's all-time classics, the evil little paranoid thriller "Came the Dawn," this collection features page after page after page of Wood's sleek and meticulously crafted artwork put in the service of cunning twist-ending stories, most often from the typewriter of EC editor Al Feldstein. These tales range from supernatural shockers from the pages of Tales From the Crypt and The Haunt of Fear ("The Living Corpse," "Terror Ride," "Man From the Grave," "Horror in the Freak Tent") to often pointedly contemporary crime thrillers from Crime SuspenStories ("The Assault," "The Whipping," and "Confession," which was singled out for specific excoriation in the anti-comics screed Seduction of the Innocent, thus giving it a special cachet), but the breathtaking art and whiplash-inducing shock endings are constants throughout.

Like every book in the EC Artists' Library, Came the Dawn features extensive essays and notes on these classic stories by EC experts -- but the real "meat" of the matter (sometimes literally, in the grislier stories) is supplied by these often lurid, sometimes downright over-the-top, but always compelling and superbly crafted, classic comic-book masterpieces.

Wood, Wallace
Feldstein, Al

Condition & Attributes

Near Fine, issued without dustjacket (multiple spots to the edge and back cover were the surface has been scraped showing the white under the ink, otherwise Very Fine)

Publishing Information

Seattle
Fantagraphics
2012
1st
9781606995464

Physical Description

10.5 inches
7.25 inches
208 pages
black & white
Hardcover
pictorial boards
English

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