Showing posts with label shock illustrated. Show all posts
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Friday, April 24, 2009

Comic: Frazetta art (Shock Illustrated)

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Here is some unpublished art that was supposedly to be used in Shock Illustrated #4 (EC comics) These are unfunnished and without any story words - but it's Frazetta! What more needs to be said?
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Comic: Shock Illustrated #1&2

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More Picto Fiction tales from EC this time it's Shock Illustrated - 1955
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wiki info on this series.

Shock Illustrated was a black and white magazine published by EC Comics from late 1955 to early 1956. Part of EC's "Picto-Fiction" line, each magazine featured 3 - 5 stories. The artist would draw 1 - 4 panels per page with the text overlaid onto the artwork. The first issue appeared with a cover date of September-October 1955 and featured three psychology themed stories, similar in theme to the comic Psychoanalysis published by EC in 1955. Starting with the second issue this type of story was generally reduced to one per issue, with the remaining stories being similar in theme to those that appeared in EC's comic Shock SuspenStories.

Shock Illustrated ended up lasting a total of three issues. The "Picto-Fiction" magazines lost money from the start and when EC's distributor went bankrupt, the company had no choice but to cancel the prints. The third issue of this magazine is known as the rarest EC publication of all time. Although all 250,000 copies had been printed, publisher Bill Gaines lacked the funds to bind them and all but 100 copies were destroyed.

The editor of Shock Illustrated was Al Feldstein. In addition to those stories credited to him, Feldstein also wrote under the penname 'Alfred E. Neuman'. Feldstein included multiple retellings of previous stories, a move suggested by Gaines. This included issue 2's 'A Question of Time' and 'Dead Right' and issue 3's 'Curiosity Killed'. Other contributing writers included Jack Oleck (who had worked as a writer on EC's earlier publications), Robert Bernstein, John Larner, and Daniel Keyes (under the pennames Kris Daniels and A.D. Locke).

Artists featured in Shock Illustrated included Jack Kamen, Rudy Nappi, Reed Crandall, George Evans, Al Williamson, Angelo Torres, and Graham Ingels.

Shock Illustrated was reprinted along with the other "Picto-Fiction" magazines in hardbound volumes by Russ Cochran (and Gemstone Publishing) for the first time in 2006 as the final part of his Complete EC Library. With these reprints, published for the first time, was the fourth issue of the title which had been produced but never printed.


If anyone has issues 3&4 please share them - thanks
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Old piles of good sh... stuff

These are spotlighted items - not always 'old' because of when they were made but rather these are things that were posted awhile ago on this blog and have been 'archived' in the back.














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