Shock Illustrated comic books issue 1
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Painted cover by Jack Kamen. Stories by Daniel Keyes and Robert Bernstein. Art by Jack Kamen, Joe Orlando, Wally Wood, and Johnny Craig. Part of EC's Picto-Fiction line, published in response to the Comics Code, featuring slice-of-life tales in text stories copiously illustrated by EC's lineup of artists. This first issue focused on psychology-themed stories, similar to EC's 1955 comic Psychoanalysis. A key-swapping party for bored suburbanites results in a temporary split in Beth and Jim's marriage, and a trip to the psychiatrist. Teenage dope addict Peggy sees a psychiatrist after her life falls apart and she's jailed on multiple charges. A teen becomes a leather-jacked juvenile delinquent and murders a stranger with a switchblade, encompassing many of the fears of middle-class America of the 1950s. Featuring some stories by Daniel Keyes, later the author of the science fiction classic Flowers for Algernon. The Needle; Switch Party; The Jacket. 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 60 pages, B&W with single-color accents. Cover price $0.25.
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Tags: Anthology / CollectionPublished Mar 2021 by Dark Horse.$48.00
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1st printing. Collects Shock Illustrated (1955) #1-4.
Written by Daniel Keyes, Robert Bernstein, Jack Oleck, Al Feldstein, John Larner, and Jack Oleck. Art by Jack Kamen, Reed Crandall, George Evans, Al Williamson, Graham Ingels, Graham Ingels, Rudy Nappi, and Frank Frazetta. Cover by Jack Kamen. Introduction by Grant Geissman. Foreword by Steve Niles.
Enjoy the complete run of Shock Illustrated, an innovative "Picto-Fiction" magazine containing illustrated prose stories of switch parties, thrill killers, and more of society's dark underbelly-written and illustrated by Daniel Keyes (Flowers for Algernon), Jack Kamen, Reed Crandall, Graham Ingels, and more!
Includes the lost fourth issue, with pencils from Frank Frazetta and unproduced scripts for issue 5!
Hardcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 248 pages, full color.
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1st printing. Collects Shock Illustrated (1955) issues #1-3 and the unpublished 4th issue. Hardcover, 9 x 12-in, B&W.
