{"product_id":"the-ec-archives-shock-illustrated","title":"THE EC ARCHIVES Shock Illustrated","description":"\u003cp\u003eEnjoy the complete run of \u003ci\u003eShock Illustrated\u003c\/i\u003e, an innovative \"Picto-Fiction\" magazine containing illustrated prose stories of wife swapping, drugs, prostitution, thrill killers, and more of society's dark underbelly -- written by \u003cstrong\u003eDaniel Keyes\u003c\/strong\u003e (\u003ci\u003eFlowers for Algernon\u003c\/i\u003e), and drawn by \u003cstrong\u003eJack Kamen, Reed Crandall, Graham Ingels\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eAngelo Torres, George Evans \u003c\/strong\u003eand \u003cstrong\u003eAl Williamson\u003c\/strong\u003e! Painted covers. Includes the rare 3rd issue, only 100 ever distributed, plus the never-published lost fourth issue, with pencils from \u003cstrong\u003eFrank Frazetta\u003c\/strong\u003e! And...scripts for issue 5!\n\nWith the advent of the Comics Code, EC decided to attempt a bold new experiment. Just like they took \u003cem\u003eMad\u003c\/em\u003e into a magazine format, to get around the code, they kicked off new titles as magazines, with sophisticated, longer stories and in a prose-and-art format, a hybrid rarely attempted before in comics. And the artists gave it their best, as you will see here. Brilliant work, but sadly, the public wasn't ready for comics in a magazine format, aimed at a mature audience.\n\nBut soon they would be. Not ten years later, Warren would start an empire doing the same thing, with \u003cem\u003eCreepy, Eerie \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eVampirella. \u003c\/em\u003eAnd he used the same EC artists and the same horror and crime themes. This is how it all began. Brilliant work, not to be missed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dark Horse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59640037802270,"sku":"ECASHH","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/0684\/7006\/files\/ecashh-ec-archives-shock-illustrated-book.jpg?v=1784485337","url":"https:\/\/shop.budsartbooks.com\/products\/the-ec-archives-shock-illustrated","provider":"Bud's Art Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}