Zero Hour And Other Stories (The EC Comics Library, 10)

Feldstein, Al

ISBN 10: 1606997041 / ISBN 13: 9781606997048

Published by Fantagraphics, 2014

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Zero Hour And Other Stories (The EC Comics Library, 10)
• Publisher: Fantagraphics
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1606997041
• ISBN 13: 9781606997048
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

With his wholesome approach, Jack Kamen stood out amongst the grandguignol grunge, gritty realism, or futuristic dazzle of his fellow EC cartoonists �€” but his brilliant editor/writer Al Feldstein found a way to exploit the surface innocence of his style with seemingly nice stories of romance gone horribly wrong, or future fantasies with an unexpectedly brutal twist. And nowhere did Kamen�€™s clean-but-lush graphics work better than in the stories he created for EC�€™s science-fiction comics. The title story, �€œZero Hour�€� (one of three in this book adapted from works by Ray Bradbury), set in a Spielbergian suburban idyll, is particularly well served by Kamen�€™s surface innocence; �€œA Lesson in Anatomy�€� works similar magic, with its Mayberry-esque setting veering into alien-invasion terror. If there was any devil in Kamen, it came out in his loving depiction of the female face and form, and you could see why his hapless heroes were often fatally entranced with them �€” as in �€œPunishment Without Crime�€� (Bradbury again), �€œHe Who Waits!�€� (a scientist finds an extreme way of rejoining his eight-inch-tall inamorata), and �€œMiscalculation!�€� (the lucky recipient of a package from the future literally brews his own harem); even the supercomputer in �€œOnly Human!�€� proves vulnerable to a beautiful woman�€™s charms. Zero Hour And Other Stories contains 22 classic EC yarns �€” plus the usual all-new biographical, historical, and critical essays that have made Fantagraphics�€™ EC Library series the ultimate version of these classics.

About the Authors

Albert B. Feldstein (1928–2014; Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame, 2003) was a triple-threat writer, artist, and editor, renowned for his work on such titles as Weird Science, Tales From the Crypt, and MAD magazine. He received the Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011.

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).

Gary Groth is the co-founder of The Comics Journal and Fantagraphics Books. He lives in Seattle.