Best Selling Books by Grant Geissman

Good lord! This is it!! HOOHAH!!! EC fan/addicts Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman have joined forces to create the book EC GhouLunatics have been screaming about! Tales of Terror!/The EC Companion is the complete compendium of all the EC comics, including M.C. Gaines''s early Bible and "funny animal" titles, Bill Gaines''s formative Pre-Trend books, the glorious (and gory-ous) New Trend comics, and the experimental New Direction and Picto-Fiction titles! Every original EC comic book cover is pictured in eye-gouging full color! BUY THIS BOOK OR DIE!!!

In the opinion of many comic book fans, the greatest comic books ever are those published in the 1950s by E.C. Comics under the auspices of publisher Bill Gaines. After inheriting the company, he changed the focus from western and romance comics to innovating in new genres of horror and science fiction.

As any fan of comics knows, EC Comics still represent the best of golden age writing and artwork. Now, Dark Horse Books is proud to bring you the very first issues of EC''s Tales from the Crypt, featuring the amazing artistic talents of Johnny Craig, Al Feldstein, George Roussos, Wally Wood, Harvey Kurtzman, Graham Ingels, and Jack Kamen!

In 1947, Bill Gaines inherited his legendary father''s fledgling publishing company, EC Comics. Over the next eight years, he and a "who''s who" of the era including Al Feldstein, Harvey Kurtzman, and Wally Wood would reinvent the very notion of the comic book with titles like Tales from the Crypt, Weird Science, and MAD. With more than 1,000...

In 1947, Bill Gaines inherited his father''s publishing company, EC Comics. Over the next eight years, he and his team reinvented the comic book with legendary titles like Tales from the Crypt, Weird Science, and MAD. Featuring all covers from the New Trend era, interior pages, and original artwork, this is a must-have for any comics enthusiast.

A look at the entire career of legendary artist, writer, and editor Albert Feldstein. Includes previously unpublished photographs, every Feldstein E.C. Comics comic book cover, six complete E.C. stories illustrated by Feldstein, nearly every splash page and house ad Feldstein did for E.C., and traces his thirty-year career as the editor of MAD. With text by E.C. historian Grant Geissman, this is both a full biography and a richly-illustrated art book.

The ultimate collection of Wallace Wood''s finest science fiction stories. Includes Wood''s "My World," adaptations of three classics by Ray Bradbury, a "lost" 3-D story -- and a story rejected by the Comics Code, restored and published here for the first time.