Because of this, there are several comics within those series that share the same issue number. Their first two volumes were released in January 2012. Russ Cochran, who created the EC Archives, was 14 in 1951, when he read The Haunt of Fear No. Weird Science Volume 2 was released in August 2008. Al Feldstein, EC Comics Wiki is a FANDOM Comics Community. Al Feldstein, Will Elder, Joe Orlando, The output of Bill Gaines' EC Comics line in the 1940s and 1950s is one of the most critically acclaimed of the pre-Comics Code comics publishers (and one of the major casualties of the Comics Code). Al Feldstein, Graham Ingels, Graham Ingels, In this new, skewed world, axes were rarely used to chop wood, and meat grinders weren’t for shredding beef. What other comics publisher would even think of adapting stories from The Saturday Evening Post, use stories by Guy de Maupassant or steal from the best — Ray Bradbury?”, The best-selling horror novelist Joe Hill, who also writes the comics series Locke & Key, has a slightly different take. Weird Science Volume 2 was released in August 2008. Graham Ingels, full-color individual issue reproductions. “The EC line represents a high-water mark in the history of commercial comics,” he wrote in an e-mail. [14] Weird Science Volume 1 was released in a limited print run of 300, all signed by EC editor Al Feldstein. The EC Archives are a series of American hardcover collections of full-color comic book reprints of EC Comics, published by Russ Cochran and Gemstone Publishing from 2006 to 2008.

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[2] Also contributing to the project at Cochran's West Plains office were operations manager Angela Meyer and production artist Chris Rock. Kronenberg suggested EC's Pre-Trend titles might also be reprinted in Archive form. “These ECs were so important to me,” he writes in an essay in “Tales From the Crypt: Volume 4,” “that I built a wooden box with a padlock on it, to keep them safe.”, Mr. Hill recalls a similar addiction — and his father owned hardcover editions. Kronenberg suggested EC's Pre-Trend titles might also be reprinted in Archive form. These EC Archives volumes have drawn praise for their quality, and feature introductions by such notable EC fans as George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante and Paul Levitz, et al. with a pair of white gloves for handling of the expensive volumes. EC couldn’t weather its demonization and killed off its comic line by early 1956, except for Mad. In a somewhat-complicated move, the United States Post Office requested that the numbering of the "New Trend" title. 3, but they were instead published by Dark Horse Comics in 2013..

Cochran's major republication of EC output began with a mammoth undertaking - the Complete EC Library, consisting of large, slipcased black-and-white[1] collections of (particularly) the most famous "New trend" EC Comics titles. Skip to main content.co.uk.

Cochran befriended Gaines, and also handled the resale of the original artwork to collectors via mail-auction catalogs during the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s.

On January 11, 2011, Cochran looked back on the project, noting the differences between his earlier EC Library and the later EC Archives: Each book reprints six issues for a total of 24 stories. And don’t forget that Mad was born as a 10-cent EC comic in 1952 before becoming a 25-cent magazine with its 24th issue.

“In my case, it was more like I poured myself into those books.” He added, “I remember staring into them in the trancelike way people will stare into a fire.”. “They were arguably the best commercial comics company in the history of the medium, and their list of artists and writers between 1950 and 1955 represents a Who’s Who of the most accomplished craftsmen working in comics at that time.”, And in an essay this year, he wrote: “EC came as close as a mainstream comics publisher could to being the comics equivalent of Barney Rosset’s Grove Press. A printing defect saw most copies withheld by the publisher for an erroneously-missing cover illustration to be inserted. Their publishing schedule has been suspended due to financial difficulties at Gemstone Publishing. Al Fedstein, The Haunt of Fear, Weird Science, and Weird Fantasy began with issues #15, #12 and #13, respectively, but at the request of the Post Office, their issue numbering was reset a few issues later, beginning with The Haunt of Fear #4, Weird Science #5, and Weird Fantasy #6. EC ARCHIVES: TWO-FISTED TALES, VOL.

In 1950 Bill Gaines introduced his "New Trend" line of comic books, including the most popular title Tales from the Crypt. Al Feldstein, John Severin, 75 EC Horror Comics/The Haunt of Fear (1950-1954)/Reprint Duplicates/The Haunt of Fear 021 (09-10 1953)(R).cbr. The original run was interrupted after thirteen volumes, due to financial difficulties at Gemstone Publishing, in 2008. Sometimes it is difficult to find all the stories that feature our favorite characters. http://www.weirdfantasy.com/WeirdFantasy/Home/Entries/2011/1/15_Last_Call!.html, Michael Kronenberg posting at MarvelMasterworksFansite.Yuku.com, July 26, 2008, https://eccomics.fandom.com/wiki/EC_Archives?oldid=8034. However, EC's black-and-white Picto-Fiction magazines are unlikely to be reprinted as EC Archives. Gary Groth, 7563 Lake City Way NE Seattle, WA 981151 (800) 657 1100, 1201 South Vale StreetSeattle, WA 98108(206) 557-4910, Publisher of the world’s greatest cartoonists, Use left/right arrows to navigate the slideshow or swipe left/right if using a mobile device, translation missing: en.layout.accessibility.close_modal. [2] Also contributing to the project at Cochran's West Plains office were operations manager Angela Meyer and production artist Chris Rock. The line was revived for two more volumes by GC Press LLC, a boutique imprint established by Russ Cochran and Grant Geissman, in 2011 (both volumes carry 2011 copyrights, the year of their printing, though due to the vagaries of distribution, they were not released until January 2012). Similarly, Crime Patrol was replaced with The Crypt of Terror for issue #17. This is the 1st volume of a "The EC Archives" - the 3-parts set of reprints of a classic 1950's horror comics - and it looks (and read) enjoyable. 1 $ 49.95 Add to cart; EC Archives: TWO-FISTED TALES, Vol. A printing defect saw most copies withheld by the publisher for an erroneously missing cover illustration to be inserted.

[10] Weird Science Vol. The EC Archives are an ongoing series of American hardcover collections of full-color comic book reprints of EC Comics, published by Russ Cochran and Gemstone Publishing from 2006 to 2008, and then continued by Cochran and Grant Geissman's GC imprint, and finally taken over by Dark Horse in 2013.