EC Picto Fiction Library Complete Box Set (Titles: Terror, Crime, Confessions, Shock) (Set of 4)

A boxed set of four great books in our acclaimed Fantagraphics EC Comics Library, which collects the best comics of the 1950s. Featured are: Graham Ingels’s Grave Business, Jack Kamen’s Forty Whacks, Reed Crandall’s The High Cost of Dying, and Jack Davis’s The Living Mummy. Collectively, that’s more than 100 stories and more than 800 pages. Plus bonus features and insightful commentary from EC scholars. A great gift for the person in your life who’s into great comic art and gripping storytelling!

Jack Davis (1924–2016) was a founding cartoonist of MAD and one of the most in-demand caricaturists and cartoonists in the world throughout his 60-plus-year career. Among many other honors, he was inducted into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame in 2003.

Graham Ingels (1915–1991), began working for EC Comics, drawing Western, romance, and crime stories, in 1948. But it was with the advent of EC’s horror titles that "Ghastly" Graham Ingels's detailed work perfectly evoked the proper mood for the kind of wickedly macabre stories EC excelled at, and it made him a fan favorite. Ingels drew the lead feature for every issue of Haunt of Fear starting with #4, but his work, "hosted" by his signature character, the Old Witch, appeared regularly in all three EC horror titles and in Crime SuspenStories. In 1989, Ingels returned briefly to the comics landscape when he created a series of oil paintings featuring the Old Witch.

The Brooklyn-born Jack Kamen (1920-2008) began his career as a pulp illustrator and spent his last professional decades as an illustrator, but is best remembered for his half-decade at EC (and his 1982 contributions to the EC-inspired movie Creepshow).

Reed Crandall (1917–1982) is best known for his art for EC―and later Warren's―horror, crime, war, and adventure comics; he also contributed to Flash Gordon in the 1960s. Some of his more family-friendly work was featured in the Classics Illustrated and Treasure Chest series; he drew the Buster Brown comics for Buster Brown shoe stores for many years. He attended the Cleveland School of Art in Ohio, graduating in 1939, and served briefly in the Air Force during WWII―which served him well as one of the primary artists for the aviator-team comic Blackhawk. Crandall was inducted into the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1998 and the Will Eisner Hall of Fame in 2009.