I really like EC comics... any recomendations?

[i_ming]

I really enjoy reading EC comics (two fisted tales, shock suspense, weird science, etc.) It's actually the only type that i read... I'm just about done with their "EC Archives" set and i'm running out of things to read.

Does anyone know of any similar types of comic books that i might enjoy?

[benday-dot]

Maybe you can tell us what exactly it is you love about EC comics. Is there a particular title you like the best? Genre?

If you like horror anthology type books, perhaps you would enjoy DC's House of Mystery and House of Secrets. Like EC the art here was often first rate... Wrightson, Adams, Toth, the Phillipino school and others. The stories were hit and miss, but generally of a good calibre.

If you like war then DC again had some great Joe Jubert, John Severin, Russ Heath work from the sixties and seventies. I am just getting into this stuff myself. But Our Fighting Forces (the Losers), Star Spangled War Stories (Enemy Ace, Unknown Soldier) and Our Army at War (Sgt. Rock) are top drawer by any measure.

If you like sci-fi and weird adventure its hard to top Wally Wood, but hey Fantastic Four was beyond great. But keeping with the anthology type you have the far less heralded Time Warp from 80's DC. A nice little title with great art by Newton, Ditko, Nino and many other fine artists.

[earl]

After the 50s, the kind of horror anthology comics that EC did vanished for quite a few years. If you are looking for the horror books, you might want to look up some Warren magazines like Creepy or Eerie.

Dark Horse has gotten the rights to some of those old Warren titles and is going to do some reprints coming up sometime soon.

[DJ Sloofus]

Yeah, the Warren magazines are a great follow up. There were some excellent stories in there, but I don't think many issues had the "batting a thousand" average that the EC mags had.

If you like Crime Suspenstories, I would recommend some of the comic strip reprints from the era. The Dick Tracy collections (especially the ones that reprint stories from the 1940s and 1950s) have a really clean, Johnny Craig quality to the art. Plus, there are some fucked twists and turns.

There have been a million homages to EC in mainstream comics. A couple that pop to mind are Frank Miller's Lance Blastoff (which was collected as a full color one-shot comic for about three bucks), a great parody by Kyle Baker in an issue of Instant Piano, and (in my opinion, one of the best mainstream superhero comics of all time) an old issue of Supreme from the Alan Moore run. It was a tribute to the EC comics, and really captured the vibe incredibly well.

Sorry I'm so long-winded, but I also love the EC comics. Have you read all their early Crime comics, too? Some of those are great, too.

[Kirk G]

I really enjoy reading EC comics (two fisted tales, shock suspense, weird science, etc.) It's actually the only type that i read... I'm just about done with their "EC Archives" set and i'm running out of things to read.

Does anyone know of any similar types of comic books that i might enjoy?

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[Scott Shaw!]

If you dig EC horror comics, try to locate copies of Dell's GHOST STORIES No. 1 -- which includes the legendary "Monster Of Dread End" -- and their giant-size TALES FROM THE TOMB, two of the greatest non-EC anthologies of all time. Oddly enough, both are written by the great John Stanley, who also wrote LITTLE LULU for many, many years! These two Dell comics feature some of the weirdest, scariest stories ever to be found in a mainstream comic.

You can read all about 'em here:

http://www.oddballcomics.com/article.php?story=archive2002-10-31&query=Ghost%2BStories

An' here:

http://www.oddballcomics.com/article.php?story=archive2003-05-06&query=Ghost%2BStories

Aloha,

Scott!

[BouffonVert72]

I really enjoy reading EC comics (two fisted tales, shock suspense, weird science, etc.) It's actually the only type that i read... I'm just about done with their "EC Archives" set and i'm running out of things to read.

Does anyone know of any similar types of comic books that i might enjoy?

In the old stuff anthologies, if you like x, so you may like y :

- EC Weird Science :

* (Marvel/Atlas Era) Masterworks Tales to Astonish vol 1.
Vol 2 will ship in a few months...
I have both read them and I have enjoyed it very much ! My best read in 2007 !

* (Marvel/Atlas Era) Marvel Masterworks Strange Tales vol 1.



- EC Tales from the crypt/Vault of Horror :

* HC Marvel's Legion of Monsters. (old stuff and new).

* Omnibus Marvel's Amazing Fantasy. (I am reading it since few days, and yes it's a very good stuff !).

* DC Showcase House of Mystery vol 1-2 (sadly in black and white and bad paper but not expensive...).

* AC Comics' Crypt of Horror vol 1-2-3-4. (soft cover, in b & w). (not read yet but it seems to me...).



- EC Shock Suspenstories :

* Maybe (Marvel/Atlas Era) Marvel Masterworks Tales of Suspens vol 1 (not read yet, but it seems to me a good thing...)



And perhaps Gemstone will publish Weird Fantasy in archives (sci-fi), and Fear of haunted (horror)... I hope so !

I know other titles of old stuff of the 50's/60's, so I will edit this post later...

[TROUBLEZ]

Pacific Comics put out a title called TWISTED TALES written mostly by Bruce Jones. It's pretty good.

Also Kitchen Sink's DEATH RATTLE. The title started out in color but after 6 I think it went to black and white.

Eclipse had TALES OF TERROR. Not as good as Twisted Tales but good enough.

If you want some zombies I would recommend old issues of Caliber's DEADWORLD.

[DJ Sloofus]

I read the Amazing Fantasy Omnibus. It was great, especially if you already enjoy Ditko's stuff.

[swinebread]

If it's more sci-fi you want I'd suggest Alien Encounters by Eclipse and Alien Worlds by Pacific and Eclipse. A couple of Anthology titles from the 80's I liked.

Something is making me suggest Judge Dredd too.

[DJ Sloofus]

I don't know about Judge Dread per se, I mean they're good comics and all but not entirely EC related. However, the two Alan Moore collections which contain his "Tharg's Future Shocks" would be an excellent accompaniment to any EC library.

Actually, I believe they were both combined (Alan Moore's Shocking Futures and Alan Moore's... something else) into one volume recently. It's a great collection, full of crazy twists and insane concepts. If you like Weird Science or Weird Fantasy, you'll definitely dig it.