Fantagraphics' popular EC Library series continues with the science fiction work of Jack Kamen. On the surface, Kamen's style may seem wholesome but dark surprises and twists lurk just below the surface. Contains 22 classic EC yarns along with the usual all-new biographical, historical, and critical essays that have made Fantagraphics' EC Library series the ultimate version of these classics.

(W) Jack Kamen, Al Feldstein, Otto Binder (A/CA) Jack Kamen Jack Kamen?s stories for The Vault of Horror, Tales From the Crypt, and The Haunt of Fear favored unnerving creepiness over gruesome shock. With his penchant for deft delineations of scheming women, jealous husbands, murderous love triangles, and not-so-innocent children, Kamen?s pen laid down a precise, sure line that brought each story?s shock ending into sharp relief. This volume features 27 Kamen favorites, drawn at the peak of powers, including:?Kamen?s Kalamity,? our title story, featuring the ?true? origin story of the artist himself! When the pressures of drawing his stories, dealing with his editors, and pleasing his wife and kids become too much, comic book artist Jack Kamen loses it, and that night, when the moon is full ? ?How Green Was My Alley,? the cautionary tale of a traveling salesman who spends every other week at home with his wife. And every other other week at his other home with his other wife! In a grisly finale, echoing the EC shocker ?Foul Play,? Kamen leaves nothing to the imagination! ?Beauty Res