Zero Hour And Other Stories (The EC Comics Library)

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Zero Hour And Other Stories (The EC Comics Library)

In this collection of EC sci-fi comics (including adaptations of Ray Bradbury stories), Jack Kamenâ€™s wholesome-as-apple-pie art style is used to subversive ends.
With his wholesome approach, Jack Kamen stood out amongst the grandguignol grunge, gritty realism, or futuristic dazzle of his fellow EC cartoonists â€• 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 Kamenâ€™s clean-but-lush graphics work better than in the stories he created for ECâ€™s science-fiction comics. The title story, â€œZero Hourâ€ (one of three in this book adapted from works by Ray Bradbury), set in a Spielbergian suburban idyll, is particularly well served by Kamenâ€™s surface innocence; â€œA Lesson in Anatomyâ€ 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 â€• as in â€œPunishment Without Crimeâ€ (Bradbury again), â€œHe Who Waits!â€ (a scientist finds an extreme way of rejoining his eight-inch-tall inamorata), and â€œMiscalculation!â€ (the lucky recipient of a package from the future literally brews his own harem); even the supercomputer in â€œOnly Human!â€ proves vulnerable to a beautiful womanâ€™s charms. Zero Hour And Other Stories contains 22 classic EC yarns â€• plus the usual all-new biographical, historical, and critical essays that have made Fantagraphicsâ€™ EC Library series the ultimate version of these classics. Black & white

Country	USA
Binding	Hardcover
EAN	9781606997048
Edition	1
ISBN	1606997041
Label	Fantagraphics
Manufacturer	Fantagraphics
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	176
PublicationDate	2014-02-15
Publisher	Fantagraphics
Studio	Fantagraphics
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Zero Hour And Other Stories (The EC Comics Library)

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