Description: 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 in the stories he created for EC's science-fiction comics. The title story, "Zero 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; "A 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 "Punishment Without Crime" (Bradbury again), "He Who Waits!" (a scientist finds an extreme way of rejoining his eight-inch-tall inamorata), and "Miscalculation!" (the lucky recipient of a package from the future literally brews his own harem); even the supercomputer in "Only 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.
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EAN: 9781606997048
UPC: 9781606997048
ISBN: 9781606997048
MPN: N/A
Format: Hardback, 176 pages
Author: Al Feldstein
Book Title: Zero Hour and Other Stories by Al Feldstein
Item Height: 1.9 cm
Item Length: 26 cm
Item Weight: 0.5 kg
Item Width: 18.5 cm
Language: English
Era: Modern Age (1992-Now)
Artist/Writer: Bill Gaines, Jack Kamen, Ray Bradbury, Al Feldstein
Cover Artist: Jack Kamen
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Genre: Science Fiction
Publication Year: 2014
Character: Unnamed Janitor, Jean (Martin's Wife, Apparition), Tarpo (The Living Skeleton), Trark (Villain), Val Draper (Teacher, Death), Czuk (Villain), Mr. Hamish (Building Superintendent), Smith (A Policeman), Mildred (The Fat Lady), Miss Winkleman (Melvin's Neighbor), Percy (Bachelor Scientist), Martha Williams (The Doctor's Wife), Helen Watkins (Seymour's Wife), Tim (Helen's Son), Dr. Granger (Flashback), Ruth Thurmond (Walter's Wife, Death), Ellie (Henry's Wife), A Stranger (Villain, A Robot, Death), Grace Brewster (Lloyd's Wife, Mention Only), Aldo (The Hairy Ape-Man), Sally (Amos' Lover), Dr. Lloyd Brewster, Rest Unnamed, Xano, Andrea Coles (A Scientist), Henry Wilkens (Diner Dish Washer), Larry's Sister, Callon-X (Man from the Future), Dr. Annette Beard, Martha Masterson (Hugo's Wife), Roger Forbes (Engineer, Flashback), Two Alien Beings (Villains), Hank, Seymour Watkins, Robbie (Baseball Player), Alec, Mink Morris (Daughter of Mary Morris), Dean Warburton (A Hospital Lab Technician), Edith Fuller (Masterson's Assistant), Walter Thurmond (Death), Florence Henkel (Calvin's Wife, Death), Melvin Sputterly, Drill (Villain, A Martian), Mrs. Fishkin (Calvin's Neighbor), Calvin Henkel (Death), Mara, Ellen (Brewster's Assistant and Lover), Phebe, Sheriff Ames, Helen (Mary's Friend in New York), Katherine (A Marionette, Death), Miss Landers, Unnamed M.P., Amos (Villain, A Bookkeeper), Lon Masterson (Scientist), Buster (An Electronic Brain), Peggy Ann, Invasion Ship Crew Members Unnamed Chief, Pee-Wee (Baseball Player), Henry Morris (Mary's Husband), Henrietta Masterson (Lon's Wife), Elasto (The Rubber-Skinned Man), Larry, Dr. Felix Walton (Villain, S.S. Police Member), George Hill, Joseph Conners, ANNA, Stanley Gilby (Circus Co-Owner), Katherine Hill (Aka Katie) (George's Wife), Others Unnamed (Villains), Cynthia (Amos' Wife, Death), Unnamed Secretary of Defense, Zenob Watkins (The Watkin's Great-Great Grandson from the Future), Two Beautiful Girls (Apparitions), Andrew Harmon, Unnamed Doctor, Martha (Villain, Death), Martin, Miss Tebbits (A Nurse), Petite (A Flower Girl, Death), The Freaks Bosco (The Dog-Faced Boy, Death), Professor Stanley Dingle, Leonard Phelps (Katherine's Lover), Mary Morris, Stevey Williams, Cuno, Joe (A Banker), Leonard Hill (Mention Only), Doctor Hugo Masterson (Death), Dr. Williams (County Coroner, Stevey's Father), Professor Hardin, Ned Smote (Circus Co-Owner), Unnamed Time Traveler, Colonel Curtis, Robotic Leonard Hill (Death)
Series Title: The Fantagraphics Ec Artists' Library
Issue Number: 8
