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

Before creating and writing the all-time greatest satirical comic, Harvey Kurtzman (1924-1993) had already been the only humor cartoonist given full editorial freedom by Stan Lee and created and wrote the first serious war comics in an age of heroic jingoism. After revamping MAD from a comic into the all-time greatest satirical magazine, he went on to create and write the most widely read adult comic strip (with “Little Annie Fanny” in Playboy) and write and draw one of the earliest graphic novels (with the 1959 The Jungle Book). He continued to work in magazine and book publishing his whole life, with an eye for talent that gave leading cartoonists of the 1960s undergrounds and the 1980s alternative comics movement their earliest opportunities. Since 1988, one of the two major awards programs in American comics has been given annually in his name.

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