EC COMICS. THE NEW TREND 1950–54. 45TH ED.
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EC COMICS. THE NEW TREND 1950–54. 45TH ED.

1950-1954

GEISSMAN, GRANT

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TASCHEN
Año de edición:
2025
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ISBN:
978-3-8365-9794-4
Páginas:
512
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Cartoné
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In 1947, Bill Gaines inherited EC Comics, a new venture founded by his legendary father M. C. Gaines, who was responsible for midwifing the birth of the comic book as we know it during his tenure at All-American Comics, bringing the likes of Wonder Woman and Green Lantern to the world. Over the next eight years, Bill Gaines and a “who’s who” of the era including Al Feldstein, Harvey Kurtzman, and Wally Wood would reinvent the very notion of the comic book with titles like Tales from the Crypt, Crime SuspenStories, Weird Science, and MAD.

EC delighted in publishing gory, morbid horror and crime comics that had snap, ironic endings—but they also pioneered the first true-to-life war comics, the first “real” science-fiction stories, and a series of tales about such then-taboo subjects as racism, bigotry, vigilantism, drug addiction, police corruption, and anti-Semitism. Too good to last, they were eventually caught up by various 1950s guardians of morality, who were convinced that EC’s often over-the-top content was causing juvenile delinquency. A year or so after a full inquiry investigating horror and crime comics, the incredible EC Comics were no more.

After publishing the full, fascinating story behind this fabled company in XXL size in 2020, TASCHEN now presents in full the story of what is considered to be EC's prime period, the New Trend, plus the complete covers of that era—including those of Tales from the Crypt and The Haunt of Fear, Weird Science and Weird Fantasy, Two-Fisted Tales and Frontline Combat, Panic and MAD. Many of the cover images are reproduced from Gaines File Copies, which are widely regarded as the best surviving copies of the EC Comics.

Also included are interior pages and panels, photos, vintage original artwork, and some of the most celebrated stories ever to be printed in four colors for a dime. In short, this is a must-have for any comics enthusiast or pop culture historian.


En 1947, Bill Gaines heredó EC Comics, una nueva empresa fundada por su legendario padre, M. C. Gaines, responsable del nacimiento del cómic tal como lo conocemos durante su etapa al frente de All-American Comics, desde donde personajes como Wonder Woman y Linterna Verde alcanzaron fama mundial. En los ocho años siguientes, Bill Gaines y lo más granado del oficio, como Al Feldstein, Harvey Kurtzman y Wally Wood, reinventarían la noción misma del cómic con títulos como Tales from the Crypt, Crime SuspenStories, Weird Science y MAD.

EC no tenía reparos en publicar cómics sangrientos y morbosos de terror y crimen con finales impactantes e irónicos, pero también fue pionera en los primeros cómics bélicos realistas, las primeras historias de ciencia ficción “reales” y una serie de relatos sobre temas entonces tabú como el racismo, la intolerancia, el vigilantismo, la drogadicción, la corrupción policial y el antisemitismo. Eran demasiado buenos para durar, y al final les cayeron encima distintos guardianes de la moral de la década de 1950, convencidos de que el contenido de CE, a menudo desmesurado, incentivaba la delincuencia juvenil. Apenas un año después de verse sometida a una exhaustiva investigación por sus historias de crímenes y terror, la increíble EC Comics dejó de existir.

Tras publicar la fascinante historia de esta legendaria empresa en formato XXL en 2020, TASCHEN presenta ahora la crónica de lo que se considera el mejor momento de EC, la New Trend era, junto con todas las portadas de esa época, incluidas las de Tales from the Crypt y The Haunt of Fear, Weird Science y Weird Fantasy, Two-Fisted Tales y Frontline Combat, Panic y MAD. Muchas de las imágenes de portadas que se incluyen reproducen las copias que sobreviven en los archivos Gaines, consideradas como las mejor conservadas de EC Comics.

También se incluyen páginas y viñetas interiores, fotografías, ilustraciones originales vintage y algunas de las historias más famosas jamás impresas a cuatro tintas por diez centavos. Un libro imprescindible para cualquier amante del cómic o historiador de la cultura pop.

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