Thursday, November 5, 2015

Poe 1953, Pt. 2

(Continued from Poe 1953, Pt. 1)

SHOCK SUSPENSTORIES  8
"SEEP NO MORE"

EC's 5th foray into Poe was a VERY loose "adaptation", more like a "variation on a theme" really, taking its inspiration from...

     "THE TELL-TALE HEART"

     This was the 4th comics version of this story (more or less), following...
Charlton's YELLOWJACKET COMICS #6 (Dec'45),
EC's THE HAUNT OF FEAR #15 [1] (May-Jun'50), and
Gilberton's CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED #84 (Jun'51),
     ...the latter about 2 years earlier.

The artist is one of the true GREATS in the business, George Evans.

This was his 1st of 4 POE adaptations.

When I originally set this up (11-5-2015), I only had part of the story (pages 30, 32 & 35), and that as scans of the original art!  More than a year later (12-7-2016), I got ahold of the 1994 reprint, and have added the previously-missing pages 29, 31, 33 & 34.  Since the scans of the original art were MUCH sharper than those of the reprint, the quality is uneven.  But I wasn't going to replace the "good" pages!  Pardon if the coloring is also inconsistent.  If I'd had all 7 pages in B&W, I would have COLORED the whole thing.

SHOCK SUSPENSTORIES  8
cover by AL FELDSTEIN   (EC  /  April-May 1953)
"SEEP NO MORE"
     (inspired by "THE TELL-TALE HEART")  /  Version 4
Story by Albert B. Feldstein  /  Art by GEORGE EVANS  /  Page 29
Page 30
Page 31
Page 32
Page 33
Page 34
Page 35
Here's the reprints...

SHOCK SUSPENSTORIES  2
cover by AL FELDSTEIN   (Russ Cochran  /  1981)
ISKALDE GROSS  4
cover by AL FELDSTEIN   (Semic  /  Norway  /  1992)
SHOCK SUSPENSTORIES  8
cover by AL FELDSTEIN   (Russ Cochran  /  June 1994)
SHOCK SUSPENSTORIES ANNUAL 2
cover by WALLY WOOD   (Gemstone  /  1994)
EC ARCHIVES: SHOCK SUSPENSTORIES  2
cover by AL FELDSTEIN   (Gladstone  /  2006)
THE FANTAGRAPHICS EC ARTISTS' LIBRARY 11:  ACES HIGH
cover by GEORGE EVANS   (Fantagraphics  /  December 2014)
SHOCK SUSPENSTORIES  2
cover by BERNI WRIGHTSON (??)   (Akileos  /  France  /  February 2016)
Copyright (C) William M. Gaines, Agent Inc.,  Tiny Tot Comics, Inc.,
     & the various publishers.
New Color Copyright (C) 2015 Henry R. Kujawa.

Scans of SHOCK SUSPENSTORIES #8 cover & pages 30, 32 & 35
     from the Heritage Auctions site.
Scan of ISKALDE GROSS #4 from the GCD site.
Scans of SHOCK SUSPENSTORIES #8 (1994) cover & pages 29, 31, 33 & 34
     from MY collection!
Scan of EC ARCHIVES: SHOCK SUSPENSTORIES #2 (2006) from the GCD site.
Scan of SHOCK SUSPENSTORIES #2 (2016) from the Akileos France site.

Restorations by Henry R. Kujawa

For more:
Read about Edgar Allan Poe at The Poe Museum site.
Read about Edgar Allan Poe at the Biography site.


Visit the EC Fan-Addict Club Facebook group.
Read about George Evans at Lambiek Comiclopedia.
Read an interview with George Evans at the Words And Pictures blog.

Read about THE TELL TALE HEART at Cliff Notes.
Read the complete short story at the Poe Stories site.
See the TELL-TALE HEART Gallery of Illustrations.

     Audio / Video:
Hear the Boris Karloff INNER SANCTUM MYSTERY episode!
Hear the WEIRD CIRCLE episode!
See the James Mason TELL-TALE HEART cartoon short!
Hear the James Mason TELL-TALE HEART recording!
Hear the Basil Rathbone TELL-TALE HEART recording!
See the Vincent Price TELL-TALE HEART performance!
Hear the Fred Gwynne CBS RADIO MYSTERY THEATER episode!

     Comics:
Read the Rudy Palais TELL-TALE HEART adaptation!
Read the Johnny Craig TELL-TALE HEART adaptation!
Read the Jim Lavery TELL-TALE HEART adaptation!
Read the George Evans TELL-TALE HEART adaptation!
Read the Graham Ingels TELL-TALE HEART adaptation!

Read the Jack Kirby / Jerry Robinson TELL-TALE HEART adaptation!
Read the Reed Crandall TELL-TALE HEART adaptation!
Read the Nico Rosso TELL-TALE HEART adaptation!
Read the Gino Dauro TELL-TALE HEART adaptation!
Read the Tom Palmer TELL-TALE HEART adaptation!

Read the Francisco Blanes TELL-TALE HEART illustrated story!
     (coming soon)
Read the Ricardo Villamonte TELL-TALE HEART adaptation!
Read the Mike Ploog TELL-TALE HEART parody!
Read the Alberto Breccia TELL-TALE HEART adaptation!
Read the Guido Del Carpio Rivera TELL-TALE HEART illustrated story!
     (coming soon)


Read the Don McGregor / Yong Montano TELL-TALE HEART adaptation!
Read the Vilmar Rodrigues TELL-TALE HEART illustrated story!
Read the Pablo Marcos TELL-TALE HEART illustrated story!   (coming soon!)
Read the Steve Bissette / Rich Veich TELL-TALE HEART parody!
Read the Jesus Blasco TELL-TALE HEART adaptation!

     Misc:
Read the George Evans TELL-TALE HEART adaptation!
Read the George Evans SPACE CONQUERORS! run starting in 1953!
Read the George Evans USHER / PREMATURE BURIAL adaptation!
Read the George Evans MORELLA adaptation!
Read the George Evans VALDEMAR adaptation!

See the CHRONOLOGICAL list of Edgar Allan Poe stories!
See the ALPHABETICAL list of Edgar Allan Poe stories!

(Continued in Poe 1953, Pt. 3

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