Eerie Archives Volume 1 - Hardcover

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1595822453 ISBN 13: 9781595822451

Publisher: Dark Horse, 2009

Synopsis

Slithering upon the heels of Dark Horse's archive collections of the seminal horror comics magazine Creepy comes its terror-filled cousin publication Eerie! Dark Horse Comics has taken great, gruesome care in presenting this groundbreaking material to readers who have been waiting decades to get their claws on it. Collected for fans for the first time ever, and packaged in the same amazing oversized format as its killer kin Creepy Archives, Eerie features work from many of the masters of comics storytelling, including Gray Morrow, Frank Frazetta, Alex Toth, Neal Adams, Joe Orlando, and others. For fans of spectacular spookiness, mind-bending sci-fi, and astonishing artwork, the New York Times bestseller Eerie Archives is a must-have.

About this title

About the Author:

Reed Crandall (1917 1982, Indiana) is best known for his art for EC and later Warren's horror, crime, war, and adventure comics; he also contributed to Flash Gordon in the 1960s. Some of his more family-friendly work was featured in the Classics Illustrated and Treasure Chest series; he drew the Buster Brown comics for Buster Brown shoe stores for many years. He attended the Cleveland School of Art in Ohio, graduating in 1939, and served briefly in the Air Force during WWII which served him well as one of the primary artists for the aviator-team comic Blackhawk. Crandall was inducted into the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1998 and the Will Eisner Hall of Fame in 2009.

From Booklist:

The 1964 launching of Creepy, a black-and-white comics magazine that emulated the classic EC horror comics of the previous decade, was so successful that shortly afterward publisher Jim Warren started a companion publication, Eerie. The two magazines were entirely interchangeable, the only difference being that the imitation of EC’s iconic Crypt-Keeper who introduced the stories was Cousin Eerie rather than Uncle Creepy. Eerie boasted the same top-notch writers and artists. The first five issues, gathered in this volume, feature such stellar talents as Steve Ditko, Alex Toth, Gene Colan, and EC veterans Wally Wood, Al Williamson, and Reed Crandall. --Gordon Flagg

About this edition

• Publisher: Dark Horse
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1595822453
• ISBN 13: 9781595822451
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240