As any fan of comics knows, EC Comics still represent the best of golden age writing and artwork. Now, Dark Horse Books is proud to bring you the very first issues of EC's Tales from the Crypt, featuring the amazing artistic talents of Johnny Craig, Al Feldstein, George Roussos, Wally Wood, Harvey Kurtzman, Graham Ingels, and Jack Kamen!
Everybody likes to pick on Kevin. His silent nature, pasty white skin, and coffin factory-owning dad have earned him the nickname "Kevin the Corpse". Kevin grins and bears the bullies, but he's just biding his time. When dad invites the class for a factory visit, quiet Kevin gets the last laugh. It's time his funny friends really "got into" his father's work.
Originally published in 1952 and 1953, this volume of Gemstone's EC Archives series reprints issues #13-18 of Tales from the Crypt! Creators include writers Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein, and artists Jack Davis, Jack Kamen, Graham Ingels, Al Williamson, Joe Orlando, and George Evans.
Harold "Funny Bone" Fenimore is the class clown. Trouble is, while Bone gets all the laughs, his best friend Tony gets all the dates. But everything changes when Bone wanders down a back staircase at The Elemental and finds a secret room filled with teen partiers. When he steps inside, a beautiful girl comes on to him, and he's hooked. Soon, he can't live without The Room. But Bone's place of dreams is really a living tomb—a sorcerer's trap for souls. Unless Tony can make Bone see the truth, the door will close on his best friend for all eternity...
A long-awaited, much-deserved tribute to the only celebrity to rise from the grave and become an American icon. This complete history includes color reproductions of all original "Tales'" covers, four stories from the comic and a never-before-published horror story by one of the "Tales'" trademark artists. Over 1,000 illus. 300 in color.
14-year-old Heath Lambert is spending his summer at Camp Harmony in the picturesque Cascade Mountain Valley. It's the perfect place to enjoy the soothing calm of nature as he weighs a heavy decision. The camp offers distractions: his friends, Cricket and Dunbar, always up for trouble; his reluctant crush on Emily, one half of the beautiful Em & Em Twins; and hulking bullies Thumper and Floaties, who are determined to make him their punching bag for the summer. But no one rattles Heath like his creepy cabin mate, Will Stringer. Brilliant, cold and calculating, Will views the world as one big chess game, and he's always three moves ahead of everyone else. Heath soon learns there's a much bigger threat to contend with. Something's wrong with the animals in the surrounding forest. A darkness is spreading, driving them mad with rage. Wolves, bears, mountain lions???even the chipmunks are infected, spurred on in droves by one horrific goal: hunt and kill every human they find. Heath and a ragtag band of campers are faced with a choice: follow Will's lead and possibly survive, or follow the camp staff and die. But how do you trust a leader when you suspect he's more dangerous than the animals you're running from? Heath came to Camp Harmony to be surrounded by nature. He's about to get his wish.
THE STREETS OF MIAMI ARE HOT WITH SLEAZE AND SIN And nobody knows those streets better than homicide detective Christopher Blaze. Or so he thought… As an undercover cop, it was his job to bust the creatures of the night, not become one of them. But sometimes even the best cops turned and no one suspected, not their captains, not their girlfriends, not even their partners. Now Chris Blaze is working the graveyard shift, hunting a centuries-old serial killer leaving behind a trail of beautiful young victims. For another vampire is stalking the hot Miami night and this time Blaze has nothing to lose but his immortal soul!
Football team buddies Ryan, PJ, and Kelly are the three stooges of Cooper High. Their gags are always in good fun ... until the night they go too far. PJ and Ryan play a prank on Kelly by abandoning him at the town cemetery. What they don’t know is that the cemetery is haunted by the ghost of George Mirth, who died playing practical jokes. Kelly is just what George has been waiting for! When Kelly returns to Cooper Hollow, he seems different. Worse, he begins playing some very dangerous practical jokes that could leave his friends in stitches—the fatal kind!