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9781683969549: Foul Play and Other Stories
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ISBN 10 : 1683969545 ISBN 13 : 9781683969549
Editeur : Fantagraphics, 2024

Synopsis

The ultimate collection of Jack Davis EC stories!
When Jack Davis took up his pen for EC Comics, he imbued his stories
with a playful sense of (gallows) humor that made his innocent
victims more eye-poppingly terrified, his ax-murders more gleefully
gruesome, and his revenge-seeking corpses more morbidly motivated
than any other EC artist. These horror and suspense tales ― from
the pages of Vault of Horror, Haunt of Fear, Crime SuspenStories,
and Shock SuspenStories ― include frightful fare such as “Hyde and
Go Shriek!”, “Tombs-Day!”, “Witch Witch’s Witch!”, “Head-Room!”,
“Chop Talk!”, “Coffin Spell!”, and more, all leavened with the cackling,
pun-laced wit of scripter Al Feldstein and illuminated as only the
virtuoso brushwork of Jack Davis can present them.
But the standout story is “Foul Play,” the most infamous of all EC
horror stories, in which a baseball team takes revenge on a murderous
rival player by, um (spoiler alert), “repurposing” various parts of his
anatomy for one final blood-spattered, organ-scattered inning. You’ll
never see a baseball game the same way again. And as gruesome
as it sounds (and is!), Davis deftly pulls it off with aplomb and a mordant
sense of absurd humor that will have you cringing and laughing at the
same time. Plus, not one, not two, but three Davis-driven adaptations of
haunting short stories by Ray Bradbury: “The Coffin!”, “Let’s Play Poison!”,
and “The Black Ferris!”.
We round out this volume with all three of Davis’s EC science-fiction
adventures, and all five of his aerial war stories from the legendary EC title,
Aces High. 40 stories in all, most scripted by EC legend Al Feldstein, plus
in-depth commentary by EC experts Thommy Burns and Grant Geissman.

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À propos des auteurs

Jack Davis (1924-2016, b. Atlanta, Georgia) 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 honours, he was inducted into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame in 2003.

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.

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The ultimate collection of Jack Davis EC stories!
When Jack Davis took up his pen for EC Comics, he imbued his stories
with a playful sense of (gallows) humor that made his innocent
victims more eye-poppingly terrified, his ax-murders more gleefully
gruesome, and his revenge-seeking corpses more morbidly motivated
than any other EC artist. These horror and suspense tales ― from
the pages of Vault of Horror, Haunt of Fear, Crime SuspenStories,
and Shock SuspenStories ― include frightful fare such as “Hyde and
Go Shriek!”, “Tombs-Day!”, “Witch Witch’s Witch!”, “Head-Room!”,
“Chop Talk!”, “Coffin Spell!”, and more, all leavened with the cackling,
pun-laced wit of scripter Al Feldstein and illuminated as only the
virtuoso brushwork of Jack Davis can present them.
But the standout story is “Foul Play,” the most infamous of all EC
horror stories, in which a baseball team takes revenge on a murderous
rival player by, um (spoiler alert), “repurposing” various parts of his
anatomy for one final blood-spattered, organ-scattered inning. You’ll
never see a baseball game the same way again. And as gruesome
as it sounds (and is!), Davis deftly pulls it off with aplomb and a mordant
sense of absurd humor that will have you cringing and laughing at the
same time. Plus, not one, not two, but three Davis-driven adaptations of
haunting short stories by Ray Bradbury: “The Coffin!”, “Let’s Play Poison!”,
and “The Black Ferris!”.
We round out this volume with all three of Davis’s EC science-fiction
adventures, and all five of his aerial war stories from the legendary EC title,
Aces High. 40 stories in all, most scripted by EC legend Al Feldstein, plus
in-depth commentary by EC experts Thommy Burns and Grant Geissman.

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Éditeur
Fantagraphics
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1683969545
ISBN 13 
9781683969549
Reliure
Relié
Illustrateur
Davis Jack
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
312
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