Kamen's Kalamity And Other Stories

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By Al Feldstein and Jack Kamen and Otto Binder

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Jack Kamen's stories for The Vault of Horror, Tales From the Crypt, and The Haunt of Fear favoured unnerving creepiness over gruesome shock. With his penchant for deft delineations of scheming women, jealous husbands, murderous love triangles, and not-so-innocent children, Kamen's pen laid down a precise,... Read More

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Twenty-seven horror stories by master comics artist Jack Kamen from the pages of Tales From the Crypt, Vault of Horror, and Haunt of Fear -- including all 13 of his classic "Grim Fairy Tales." Bonus: seven crime and horror stories by other EC artists.

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Jack Kamen's stories for The Vault of Horror, Tales From the Crypt, and The Haunt of Fear favoured unnerving creepiness over gruesome shock. With his penchant for deft delineations of scheming women, jealous husbands, murderous love triangles, and not-so-innocent children, Kamen's pen laid down a precise, sure line that brought each story's shock ending into sharp relief.

This volume features 27 Kamen favourites, drawn at the peak of powers, including: "Kamen's Kalamity," our title story, featuring the "true" origin story of the artist himself! When the pressures of drawing his stories, dealing with his editors, and pleasing his wife and kids become too much, comic book artist Jack Kamen loses it, and that night, when the moon is full…

"How Green Was My Alley," the cautionary tale of a travelling salesman who spends every other week at home with his wife. And every other other week at his other home with his other wife! In a grisly finale, echoing the EC shocker "Foul Play," Kamen leaves nothing to the imagination!

"Beauty Rest" How far would you go to win a beauty pageant for the title of "Miss Corpse"? Well, this contestant is willing to go even further than that! She had the looks, the ambition, and the smouldering sex appeal to play the world's oldest game and snag the man of her dreams - the rich man of her dreams - but it was never more than "Only Sin Deep."

Then, Kamen switches from horror to horror-humour for all 13 of his classic "Grim Fairy Tales," revealing the gruesome underpinnings of the classics. You'll never look at Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Hansel and Gretel, or Little Red Riding Hood and their friends quite the same way again!

Plus: seven bonus crime and horror stories by EC short-termers John Alton, Frank Bolle, Leonard Starr, Bill Fraccio, Rudy Palais, and Ed Smalle. Introduction by Thommy Burns.

Like every book in the Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library, Kamen's Kalamity And Other Stories also features essays and notes by EC experts on these superbly crafted, classic masterpieces.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781683969181

Publisher: Fantagraphics

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 16 April 2024

Country: United States

Imprint: Fantagraphics

Illustration: 248 Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 185.0mm

Height: 262.0mm

Weight: 300g

Pages: 248

Collections

Adult Graphic Novels Al Feldstein Fiction Graphic Novels Jack Kamen Otto Binder

About the Author

The Brooklyn-born Jack Kamen (1920-2008) began his career as a pulp illustrator and spent his last professional decades as an illustrator, but is best remembered for his half-decade at EC (and his 1982 contributions to the EC-inspired movie Creepshow). 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. Otto Binder (1911-1974) wrote many science-fiction stories for early pulps, with "I, Robot" (Amazing Stories, January 1939) the best known. From 1939, he became hugely prolific in superhero comics, penning over half the total adventures of the Captain Marvel / Shazam extended universe for Fawcett Comics, writing most of the major characters at Timely (later Marvel) and Quality Comics, and co-creating dozens of DC Comics staples including the Legion of Super-Heroes, Supergirl, and Krypto the Super-Dog. His interest in science-fiction was motivated by a passion for space, and in later years he wrote speculatively about UFOs and edited Space World, a magazine about astronomics.