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There's surprisingly sharp social and political commentary, as well, with stories that foreshadow the threat of climate change as well as contemporary philosophical debates about the perils and morality of artificial intelligence.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49653102117137,"sku":"CIN1683961684G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53335268688145,"sku":"CIN1683961684VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1683961684.jpg?v=1778147829"},{"product_id":"kamen-s-kalamity-and-other-stories-book-jack-kamen-9781683969181","title":"Kamen's Kalamity And Other Stories","description":"Jack Kamen's stories for The Vault of Horror, Tales From the Crypt, and The Haunt of Fear favoured 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 travelling 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 Rest' How far would you go to win a beauty pageant for the title of 'Miss Corpse'? - Well, this contestant is willing to go even further than that! She had the looks, the ambition, and the smoldering sex appeal to play the world's oldest game and snag the man of her dreams - the rich man of her dreams - but it was never more than 'Only Sin Deep.' Then, Kamen switches from horror to horror-humour for all 13 of his classic 'Grim Fairy Tales,' revealing the gruesome underpinnings of the classics. You'll never look at Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Hansel and Gretel, or Little Red Riding Hood and their friends quite the same way again! Plus: seven bonus crime and horror stories by EC short-termers John Alton, Frank Bolle, Leonard Starr, Bill Fraccio, Rudy Palais, and Ed Smalle. Introduction by Thommy Burns. Like every book in the Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library, Kamen's Kalamity And Other Stories also features essays and notes by EC experts on these superbly crafted, classic masterpieces.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49748496580881,"sku":"NGR9781683969181","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51046585565457,"sku":"NIN9781683969181","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1683969189.jpg?v=1781172404"},{"product_id":"three-for-the-money-and-other-stories-book-jack-kamen-9781683964360","title":"Three for the Money and Other Stories","description":"Grand Master crime novelist Max Allan Collins (Road to Perdition) introduces these tales, which include the infamous 'The Orphan' - one of the stories that got EC Comics into hot water during the U.S. Senate's investigation into comic books; 'The October Game', adapted from the chilling classic short story by Ray Bradbury; 'Frozen Assets!,'; 'Standing Room Only'; and 'Three for the Money'.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52934735200529,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52934735986961,"sku":"CIN1683964365VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781683964360.jpg?v=1765844608"},{"product_id":"daddy-lost-his-head-book-jack-kamen-9781683960508","title":"Daddy Lost His Head","description":"Famed for his deft delineations of beautiful, scheming women, handsome jealous husbands, and not-so-innocent children, Kamen returns with a collection of classic EC horror tales from The Vault of Horror, Tales From the Crypt, and The Haunt of Fear. Featuring more than 20 tales of madness and horror as only EC can do them, including a story by Ray Bradbury!","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53335269933329,"sku":"CIN1683960505G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781683960508.jpg?v=1781172917"},{"product_id":"shock-treatment-and-other-stories-book-jack-kamen-9798875002342","title":"Shock Treatment And Other Stories","description":"When the Comics Code forced EC Comics to abandon its popular horror and crime titles, EC launched a \"New Direction\" in hopes of attracting new readers. Among the new titles were two medical dramas, M.D. and Psychoanalysis, which were competing in a rapidly changing media landscape, increasingly dominated by television. It would be more than five years before TV caught up with EC with shows such as Dr. Kildare, Ben Casey, and The Eleventh Hour -- precursors to the medical shows we know today. \u003cp\u003eArtists Jack Kamen, Reed Crandall, George Evans, Graham Ingels, and Joe Orlando paired with writers Robert Bernstein, Jack Oleck, Carl Wessler, and Daniel Keyes to produce a series of taut tales of physical and psychological crises and the doctors who must make split-second life-or-death decisions. All the stories from M.D. and Psychoanalysis are collected in this volume, including: \"The Fight for Life\" (Ingels) -- mankind's fight against disease before modern medicine; \"Shock Treatment\" (Evans) -- a young boy's attempt at suicide; \"The Lesson\" (Crandall) -- the race to save the life of a teenage girl mutilated in a high-speed crash; and \"When You Know How\" (Orlando) -- during a blizzard, a doctor has to perform emergency surgery on a critically injured boy in his family's kitchen using only the utensils at hand.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePlus: all twelve stories from Psychoanalysis, each masterfully drawn by Jack Kamen and most written by Daniel Keyes about the struggles of three patients to reconcile their inner fears and turmoil with their outward lives. 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