Corpse on the Imjin! and Other Stories (The EC Comics Library, 1) (First Edition)

Harvey Kurtzman

ISBN 10: 1606995456 / ISBN 13: 9781606995457

Published by Fantagraphics Books, Seattle, 2012

About this Item

First printing. A very fine (as-new) copy, without jacket (as issued). A clean, very tight copy. Note: Very fine, but for very light wear to extremities (as pictured). Art-K.

Seller Inventory # FLAHIVE-2606

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Corpse on the Imjin! and Other Stories (The EC Comics Library, 1) (First Edition)
• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books, Seattle
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1606995456
• ISBN 13: 9781606995457
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Graphic Novels

About this title

Synopsis

Besides Mad, Harvey Kurtzman created the scrupulously researched and superbly crafted anthologies Two-Fisted Tales and Frontline Combat, war comics without heroic, cigar-chomping sergeants, wisecracking privates from Brooklyn, or cartoon Nazis and “Japs” to be mowed down by the Yank heroes. These comics are an unflinching look at the horror and madness of combat throughout history. Kurtzman employed some of the finest of the EC artists, including the legendary Jack Davis, John Severin, and Wallace Wood, but his vision came through clearest in the dozen or so stories he both wrote and drew himself, in his uniquely bold, slashing, cartoony-but-dead-serious style (“Stonewall Jackson,” “Iwo Jima,” “Rubble,” “Big ‘If ’,” and Kurtzman’s own favorite, “Air Burst”). “Corpse on the Imjin!” is rounded off with a dozen or so stories written and laid out by Kurtzman and drawn by a “short-timers,” i.e. cartoonists whose contributions to his war books only comprised a story or two.

About the Authors

In addition to his pioneering work on the “serious” EC war comics, Harvey Kurtzman (1924-1993) created the all-time greatest satirical comic (with MAD), the most widely-read adult comic strip (with “Little Annie Fanny” in Playboy), and one of the earliest graphic novels (with the 1959 The Jungle Book).

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