Every EC Artist Library Hardcover from Fantagraphics so far!! | 30 volumes
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- Опубліковано 31 лип 2024
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Today I am going through all 30 volumes of the classic EC comics reprints by Fantagraphics. These artist centric/black and white volumes are beautiful designed and printed! Check it out!
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This set would be so effing awesome if it was in color.
I agree, that with the original colors, it would be awesome!
But, the black and white is great too. You really get to see the line work of all of the great EC artists!
I agree! These would have been wayyy better in color and would have sold more... but at the same time they would be way harder to find.
@@TaylorTalksComics > You really get to see the line work of all of the great EC artists!< That's becoming kind of rote excuse for these. I'm not sure the "great line work" justifies a decision to cut production costs and avoid color. The EC Library was in black and white too, and it could easily have been in color, they did color for the MAD releases. The EC Archives are digital color so a totally different beast.
@@ericmartin2778 coloring would be an exorbitant cost here. The original color files for these comics no longer exist. Which is why Dark Horse has recolored them with modern colors for their releases. So, Fantagraphics would likely have to do the same thing. Which would bump the price up of each of these books to around $50 each - retail.
But, it’s not an excuse. Seeing the original line work of these artists is a tremendous thing. The EC bullpen had some of the greatest comics illustrators in history.
Thanks for the shout-out! Great collection... I don't even have all 30 of these! 😱
Thanks, Thommy! I remember you saying you didn’t start collecting them in this format until you started writing the intros. Are you going to try to get the rest?
@@TaylorTalksComics I did snap up a bunch of the earlier ones from before I was doing the intros, but a few of them were already sold out... My brother has most of the ones that I'm missing (he co-admins the ECFAC)
@@ecfan-addict9477 that’s awesome! Yea, “Taint the Meat” and “50 Girls 50” seem to be the only two that are super hard to find at the moment. Took me a while to finally track them down for a decent price.
Awesome collection, Taylor!
Thanks, man!
Great video! I'd like to see a detailed breakdown of their Sci-fi and horror library volumes.
Thank you! And yes! I need to break these down into genres and do more specific vids! I will get to it one day! Promise!
Daaaaamn. I'm so jealous. I read Corpse on the Imjin from the library and loved it. I wasn't super familiar with Kurtzman's work outside Mad, and it was beautiful and moving. Great collection. I really want to get Wood's Spawn of Mars but am pretty open to all genres, so after that not sure what to pursue next.
Thanks! This took a few years to curate! If you loved that volume of Kurtzman war stories I would recommend “Came the Dawn.” More war stories written and laid out by Kurtzman, but this time drawn by the great Jack Davis.
Wally Wood’s “Spawn of Mars” would be my top recommendation for Sci fi from this collection. And for crime I’d recommend Johnny Craig’s “The Woman Who Loved Life.” Happy hunting! And let me know what you think!
Correction! “Death Stand” is the volume of war comics by Kurtzman and Davis!
I just started to collect this series, some volumes are already hard to find
That is awesome! Let me know if you need any help!
@@TaylorTalksComics can’t find master race
Great video!
Thanks! I appreciate that!
I love pulp noir and sword n survey type stuff maybe will check some of this out
Pulp noir, you say? Check out any of the Johnny Craig volumes you see here! They’re right in line with that genre!
Just found your channel. Great reviews~! I'm curious if Bernie Wrightson ever did any work for EC and if any has been collected. Thanks again for such great content.
Thank you so much for watching! And no.. Bernie didn’t start his career until after EC comics. He was certainly a fan and influenced by EC though! And Wrightson did go on to do work for Warren publications “Creepy” and “Eerie” magazines, which were influenced by EC comics in their own right!
Hi. I am currently collecting these editions and they are amazing. Do you know whether they will eventually print all of the EC comics catalogue in this format?
I think that it’s their goal! I’ve heard they have enough for 40 volumes. No idea if that would complete the catalogue or not.
@@TaylorTalksComics Hopefully they will! I have them all so far except the first slipcase which is not in print anymore and is hard to find second hand at a reasonable price.
@@nestorlovesguitar yea, the two hard for me to find were “Taint the Meat” and “50 Girls 50”
I didn’t collect them in the slipcases. I don’t know if those two were in the first one or not.
Wonderful video! Thanks for the intro to the line. Also, how dare you make me want some of these?
I’m all about those crime and war comics. Can you recommend a crime and a war book to dip my toes into?
Haha you’re welcome!
Crime: “The Woman Who Loved Life” by Johnny Craig
War: “Death Stand” by Jack Davis and Harvey Kurtzman!
Those are two of my favorite books in the entire line!
Thanks for watching!
I have 2 of the slipcase collections. A horror/crime one and a war/sci-fi one.
That's awesome! I opted out of the slipcases. Partly because some were out of print when I started collecting these. And partly because slipcases takes away from shelf space! Ha!
@@TaylorTalksComics I got lucky and stumbled across them at a local bookstore.
@@Mike_Oxlong07 that’s always the best feeling!
Would love a more deep dive explaining what I should get more of these. I own the Kurtzman War with the river. Maybe like here is the Horror ones, Sci-fi. Been meaning to dive in more, but don't know if want a full run.
Yea, I need to do a break down of genres and maybe different places for new readers to start! You've given me some ideas! Thanks!
I would really love for a new Omnibus release of Weird Science! I look for the issues on ebay but their separate volumes
Are you talking about like the Dark Horse hardcover reprints?
@@TaylorTalksComics EC..Darkhorse..id buy it in a book format!
@@robd1329 I know Dark Horse has recently released an oversized TPB of Weird Science. But, I’m not sure what issues have been collected in their hardcovers or paperbacks as I’ve been collecting the Fantagraphics versions you see in the video.
Which of the horror collections would you recommend I get first? I’m not sure if this is relevant information, but I’m a huge fan of Stephen King and Creepshow is one of my all-time favourite movies. I’ve been aware for years that Creepshow was an homage to the EC horror comic books, but for some reason it never even occurred to me to check them out until about an hour ago.
I would recommend any of the "Ghastly" Graham Ingels volumes. Which would be "Sucker Bait," "Grave Business," "Doctor Horror," and/or "Accidents and Old Lace."
interesting
Thanks for watching!
You should do a video on all of Graham Ingels books!
That’s a great idea!
I’ve ignored EC comics for some reason and do not have any on my list. Should really rectify that and move them high up on the list. I’m not the biggest horror fan, but EC horror strikes me as the type i’d enjoy.
Still, do you have recommendations for the better collections as a newbie, the Fantagraphics collections first, despite that? Sci fi maybe? Crime too? But i'm willing to try the Horror ones too.
Yes!! I hope you fall in love and enjoy these great comics as much as I do.
My recommendations per genre would be:
Horror: Grave Business - Graham Ingels
Crime: The Woman Who Loved Life - Johnny Craig
War: Death Stand - Jack Davis
Sci-Fi: Spawn of Mars - Wallace Wood
Let me know if you try any of them out and what you think!
@@TaylorTalksComics Sure thing, i’ll try to add in a volume or 2 that seem the most interesting on another order in a month or so, some other big releases coming up in December. Thanks for the recs.
I’ll let you know!
@@tanavast7337 I look forward to hearing from you!
I heard Three for the Money won’t be released until next month
Ah, dang! You’re right! Looks like it got pushed back again to Oct 20th. That sucks.
So disingenuous dude. Not a good look.
Huh?
@@TaylorTalksComics you know.
@@LukeAndreLopez I actually have no idea what you’re talking about. But, if you want to elaborate, I’ll be happy to discuss it with you.
@@LukeAndreLopez what the? So weird 😆
@@sleekdeak I agree!