Couchy81 Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 Shock 3 and 9 were my two favorites from that series. Two different artists doing a take on the same theme: A guy injured and/or trapped in rugged terrain/environment with a wild animal(s) looming with the threat of being eaten alive. I think it was Feldstein who did #9. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 How about the guy throwing the switch? Seems like he's enjoying his job The Warden's grin appears to be one of satisfaction... This is an eerily cool Wood cover, IMHO: Nice one Steve! Is that a pedigree? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 I got back Two-Fisted Tales #30 from CGC, featuring one of my all-time favorite Jack Davis covers: Best Jack Davis cover? I would have to vote for MAD #2 but his one is a very close second... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sacentaur Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 Nice one Steve! Is that a pedigree? Thanks - River City copy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sacentaur Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 Shock 3 and 9 were my two favorites from that series. Two different artists doing a take on the same theme: A guy injured and/or trapped in rugged terrain/environment with a wild animal(s) looming with the threat of being eaten alive. I think it was Feldstein who did #9. Mine too, and yes Feldstein. Spokane: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doohickamabob Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 I got back Two-Fisted Tales #30 from CGC, featuring one of my all-time favorite Jack Davis covers: Best Jack Davis cover? I would have to vote for MAD #2 but his one is a very close second... Just got that one back from CGC as well... That cover has the most unusual composition, with the baseball player's body all contorted and making a circular shape around the center where the "evil eye" is. Then if you look more closely, there's so much weird background stuff going on with the other people in the crowd, which registers almost subliminally. Also, I don't know if this is Jack Davis's design or if some of it is due to the colorist (Marie Severin?), but the way some colors are bright and others are muted gives the whole thing an almost 3-D effect. The same is the case with Two-Fisted Tales #30, which has the most dramatic lighting (or I should say backlighting) of any comic I can think of. I remember reading the "Nostalgic Mad" reprints as a kid, which were featured in the Mad Super Specials for several issues, and being enjoyably creeped out by the dark Davis and Kurtzman artwork of those early covers. (Mad #27, while technically not a comic book but a comic magazine, is also a contender for favorite Jack Davis cover.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Couchy81 Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 Shock 3 and 9 were my two favorites from that series. Two different artists doing a take on the same theme: A guy injured and/or trapped in rugged terrain/environment with a wild animal(s) looming with the threat of being eaten alive. I think it was Feldstein who did #9. Mine too, and yes Feldstein. Spokane: Beautiful copies! In my mind the next version of the theme would have been a guy who went fishing at a river in a dense green forest, who somehow managed to get his foot wedged between two large rocks and you see the fishing gear on the ground nearby, the rod on the ground, some salmon jumping out of the water and to the right a large Kodiak bear or grizzly standing up with massive teeth roaring and menacing the guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 Shock 3 and 9 were my two favorites from that series. Two different artists doing a take on the same theme: A guy injured and/or trapped in rugged terrain/environment with a wild animal(s) looming with the threat of being eaten alive. I think it was Feldstein who did #9. Mine too, and yes Feldstein. Spokane: I remember getting that book in a pile of EC's from my uncle as a 10 year old kid. I had to hide them from my mom because she said they would give me nightmares and tear them up when she caught me with one. I solved that by putting them up in the tree house where I knew she wouldn't go. For the most part she was wrong except for this one. That last Feldstein story where the vulture plucks out his eyeball because he was dead really shook me for some reason. Feldstein really knew how to shake up this 10 year old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 I got back Two-Fisted Tales #30 from CGC, featuring one of my all-time favorite Jack Davis covers: Best Jack Davis cover? I would have to vote for MAD #2 but his one is a very close second... Just got that one back from CGC as well... That cover has the most unusual composition, with the baseball player's body all contorted and making a circular shape around the center where the "evil eye" is. Then if you look more closely, there's so much weird background stuff going on with the other people in the crowd, which registers almost subliminally. Also, I don't know if this is Jack Davis's design or if some of it is due to the colorist (Marie Severin?), but the way some colors are bright and others are muted gives the whole thing an almost 3-D effect. The same is the case with Two-Fisted Tales #30, which has the most dramatic lighting (or I should say backlighting) of any comic I can think of. I remember reading the "Nostalgic Mad" reprints as a kid, which were featured in the Mad Super Specials for several issues, and being enjoyably creeped out by the dark Davis and Kurtzman artwork of those early covers. (Mad #27, while technically not a comic book but a comic magazine, is also a contender for favorite Jack Davis cover.) Yeah MAD #27 is classic too. Both covers are so full of detail. You can look at them forever. Kind of like Tom Bunk in present day MAD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sacentaur Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 This Wood classic needs no further introduction: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Point Five Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 This Wood classic needs no further introduction: That's for sure. Nice reds on that puppy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmitchgro Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 Random question for the group: is there a collector that's known as having the "best" EC collection across the board? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 I would vote for Jim Halperin at Heritage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sqeggs Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 HA is advertising a big EC collection in their next featured auction, including runs of GFCs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sacentaur Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 Quite 'shocking'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 Jeeze Steve, what are you doing? Printing these in your basement? I like the fact that all your EC's are raw. EC collectors like to read their books. I've got a couple Gaines slabbed books and a couple Gaines raw. I've read all mine several times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmitchgro Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 I would vote for Jim Halperin at Heritage. That was my first thought as well. I can't even have the best collection in my city Any others? Does the Dentist have an EC run? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sacentaur Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 I like the fact that all your EC's are raw. EC collectors like to read their books. I've got a couple Gaines slabbed books and a couple Gaines raw. I've read all mine several times. Yeah, we're on the same page. I totally understand and respect those collectors who go (sometimes exclusively) for slabbed EC ultra high-grades/Gaines, they are such beautiful books. With EC reprints being readily available in a variety of formats, there's no shortage of opportunities to read stories. But nothing beats handling the originals. Plus, I prefer the way a comic looks in a mylar when compared to a slab. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 I would oprobably also vote for eccomic and bedrock. Although, now that I've said it, I would expect a barage of mouth watering, beautiful, slabbed Gaines file copies... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sacentaur Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 I can't even have the best collection in my city. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
