EC Does It A Chance to show your EC art and why you love it 0

[grapeape]

Here is my favorite EC cover. I don’t own EC art.....yet. So many shiny baubles I am trying to focus on some Marvel goals.

But many of us love EC so show me what you have. Please tell me what it means to you. This could be entertaining visually and conversationally.

Experts and novice opinions welcome please. If you would share your art it would make it super creepy and cool.

[exitmusicblue]

Here we go, Grapey...

https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1752162

 

 

[The Voord]

On 9/6/2021 at 7:21 PM, exitmusicblue said:

Here we go, Grapey...

https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1752162

 

 

Great cover, it hung on my wall for many years!

[The Voord]

I started collecting EC art back in 1982 and over a ten year period put-together a collection of several hundred pages of new-trend art . . . sadly now all gone.

Only EC art I have remaining are two complete books of art from the 1940s when EC stood for Educational Comics.  Here's the cover to one of those complete books:

 

[grapeape]

Terry I didn’t know you owned the VOH 33 cover at one time! Big congratulations to Steve as the new caretaker. A very creepy and memorable cover. Always gets to me when kids are involved in the horror mix. It’s a jarring art accomplishment.

☠️ 

[The Voord]

On 9/6/2021 at 11:00 PM, grapeape said:

Terry I didn’t know you owned the VOH 33 cover at one time! Big congratulations to Steve as the new caretaker. A very creepy and memorable cover. Always gets to me when kids are involved in the horror mix. It’s a jarring art accomplishment.

☠️

Yeah, I got it from Benno Rothschild who traded it to me for the Haunt of Fear # 6 cover along with a story swap.

Edited September 6, 2021 by The Voord

[grapeape]

Steve,

VOH 33 why?

What resonated with you? Was this a huge nostalgia win? Why this cover/story?

 

[exitmusicblue]

On 9/7/2021 at 7:32 AM, grapeape said:

Steve,

VOH 33 why?

What resonated with you? Was this a huge nostalgia win? Why this cover/story?

 

You know why, my friend   Btw there's a huuuge FB group called EC Fan-Addict Club.  Fast approaching 10,000 members, many of whom are active (i.e. well above the OAer count here).  Check it out and you'll get your month's fill of EC goodness, and then some!

Posted my cover there and it got close to 200 likes and dozens of comments, yowza...

 

Edited September 7, 2021 by exitmusicblue

[BitterOldMan]

For some strange reason, woke up in the middle of the night, and decided to scan my emails.  Found a page from my favorite EC story drawn by the great Wally Wood. Instant buy for me from big time dealer Mike Burkey.  Saw the page from a disreputable eBay dealer for a quarter of the price years ago.  
 

[BitterOldMan]

First EC Wally Wood page that that I bought from All Star Auctions owned by Nadia and Joe Mannarino.  Bought a Batman 1 from them later.  Nadia and Joe now work for Heritage.

 

[grapeape]

Nadia and Joe really know their stuff. It’s remarkable the way HA has used a 🧲 to pull so much talent over to their company.

Thank you for contributing the Wally Wood’s from your collection. They are splendid to look upon. Wally is a legend, a pioneer, you name it. I’m always stunned by his level of skill and attention to detail.

 

[The Voord]

Michael (GA), apologies my friend for my minimal input into your worthy thread . . . been busy these past weeks with sculpting projects to respond more fully.  

I'm a child of the 1960s, living in the UK, and EC seldom made its way over to this side of the pond.

Post 1977 (when I was de-mobbed from the British army), I re-discovered the comic-book scene and along the way was drawn to the EC stuff (I'd bought an Overstreet Price Guide that contained a healthy focus on the EC books).  I was intrigued (and liked what I saw).  Not long afterwards, Russ Cochran commenced his EC Library project and I subscribed.  Aesthetically, EC is the best-ever in my book.  As a result of my subscription to Russ's EC Library, I received regular newsletters . . . including notification of the auctioning-off of EC original art (once a title was reprinted in hardback, Russ was the appointed agent to sell-off each title's OA).  Over a ten year period I regularly bought EC art from Russ (either covers or complete stories), amounting to several hundred pages/covers of OA .

Later on, I traded or sold-away all but a few EC things (some pre-1950s complete books mentioned earlier).  Reason being?  Lifestyle changes.  As the stuff became increasingly more valuable, it became more difficult to hang onto . . . knowing that potential sales could wipe out mortgages, fund early retirements from work, etc, etc.

Here are some EC covers I owned at one time (there are a handful of others not shown here, but I no longer retain scans of those):

 

Edited September 18, 2021 by The Voord

[grapeape]

Terry, those astounding pieces of art floored me. Thanks for posting.

 

[furthur]

I have a number of EC pages. Here is one from my favorite EC artist. Jack Davis went on to a long and hugely prolific career in nearly every type of illustration imaginable, but the first flowering of his genius is still a marvel to behold. Many folks want either his horror or humor work, but the war stories are just as well drawn as this example shows

[The Voord]

On 9/20/2021 at 6:06 PM, grapeape said:

Terry, those astounding pieces of art floored me. Thanks for posting.

 

Some of the other covers I had, that I no longer have scans of, included Haunt of Fear # 6, Vault of Horror # 14 (3rd issue), Crime Suspenstories # 13, a Gunfighter and another Modern Love.

[grapeape]

On 9/20/2021 at 11:56 AM, furthur said:

Jack Davis:the war stories are just as well drawn as this example shows

Jack’s war stories were phenomenal. This is an exemplary page to demonstrate that point.

 

[Latverian Tourism Board]

I have two EC pages. The first was from Mad comics, before it became a magazine to escape the comic code. This is the last page of The Countynental by Jack Davis. I loved how he’d draw bits and pieces falling off of his odder characters as they burst into scenes. 

 

The next page is from Vault of Horror, and is the exact opposite feel of the Mad page. Shambolic zombies and horrified expressions replace Davis’ great sense of humor. Could any artist switch between humor and horror with such facile ease?

[grapeape]

Re: Latverian Tourism Board

Spot on comments about Jack Davis and how he was flexible and a major talent. You have two gorgeous examples thanks for sharing them here 👍 

 

Edited September 22, 2021 by grapeape

[The Voord]

On 9/21/2021 at 4:35 PM, Latverian Tourism Board said:

I have two EC pages. The first was from Mad comics, before it became a magazine to escape the comic code. This is the last page of The Countynental by Jack Davis. I loved how he’d draw bits and pieces falling off of his odder characters as they burst into scenes. 

 

The next page is from Vault of Horror, and is the exact opposite feel of the Mad page. Shambolic zombies and horrified expressions replace Davis’ great sense of humor. Could any artist switch between humor and horror with such facile ease?

Off the top of my head, the Horror page is, I think, from 'Graft in Concrete'?  Penultimate panel, before CK's closing comment, looks like a paste-over.  Any art underneath . . . or is it too well-attached to investigate?

[The Voord]

My only other remaining EC art is the complete book, 55 pages total, of Picture Stories from American History # 2 (1946) by Allen Simon.  From the time when EC was Educational Comics.  I bought the book of OA complete.  Here's the cover: