VERY GOOD -Book is in Very Good condition with some shelf wear, light loss of gloss, etc but no major issues like creases, missing pages, water damage, ripped cover, etc. Book likely has a remainder mark.
Creators: Jack Kamen, Al Feldstein
Publisher: Fantagraphics
ISBN: 9781606998625
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 200 pages
On Sale Date: 10/12/2015
Dimensions: 10.3 in H | 7.4 in W | 0.9 in T | 1.7 lb Wt
Rating: Ages 16 And Up
Jack Kamens deceptively slick art style provides counterpoint to these gory mid-20th-century tales of murder and mayhem.
Jack Kamen's precise, clean style was perfect subversion for EC Comics tales of seemingly normal men and women who cooly act on the rage, jealousy, and greed just below their glamorous faades. Kamens crime capers include Forty Whacks (Whatever became of that ax Lizzie Borden used?), Contract for Death (A suicidal man agrees to accept $5,000 for his fresh corpse, then changes his mind. But the contract fails to specify that the body has to be his), The Neat Job! (Her neat freak husband drove her crazy, so when she chopped him up into little pieces), Just Desserts! (A madman bent on revenge hosts a dinner for his victims and the final course is a killer!) plus 20 more gripping tales of tension as only EC could do them! Like every book in the Fantagraphics EC Artists Library, Forty Whacks And Other Stories also features essays and notes by EC experts on these superbly crafted, classic masterpieces.
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