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Issue: The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #27
Publication Date: April 2020
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Issues: #27 of 37 Issues
Title: Man and Superman and Other Stories
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Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
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Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Inc.
On Sale Date: 01/29/2020
Volume: 27
Pages: 172
ISBN: 9781683962755
UPC/EAN: 978168396275552999
Price: $29.99 USD
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Content Items: 33 (22 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Hardcover
Color: black and white with some color
Dimensions: 7.25" x 10.25" (18.4 cm x 26 cm)
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Binding: hardcover
Publishing Format: collected edition
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Man and Superman and Other Stories

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Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: Cover with two illustrations by Harvey Kurtzman.
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Man and Superman and Other Stories

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Synopsis: Title pages and indicia.
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Table of Contents

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On the Verge of Madness

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First Line: EC Comics publisher Bill Gaines and editor Al Feldstein...
Synopsis: Essay on the stories including in this volume along with a photo of and art by Kurtzman.
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House of Horror

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Genres: horror
Character(s): Les Wilton; Henderson (death?); Waters (death?); Arling (death?)
Synopsis: Three college freshmen plegees disappear one night as part of the Gamma Delta Fraternity hazing at a local haunted house, the Palmer Place. Les Wilton goes in after them, but when he doesn't make a re-appearance, people going into the home looking for him find him: having aged fifty years!
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Disclose Notes: The EC Archives: The Haunt of Fear, Volume 1 (2011) lists the writer as Ivan Klapper.

Klapper also wrote a few early stories in The Vault of Horror and Tales From the Crypt, as well as some of the early one page text features. He later became a consultant for the 1959-1961 ABC-TV paranormal TV drama, "One Step Beyond".

Writer credit revised from Al Feldstein to Ivan Klapper and letterer credit revised from Jim Wroten to Ben Oda by Craig Delich.
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Horror in the Night

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Genres: horror, mystery
Feature(s): Vault of Horror
Character(s): Tom Hawkins
Synopsis: At the Hawkin's Tourist Colony, Tom is hitting the bottle as his friend Jim walks in, and explains that he is doing so because of a terrible dream he had the night before. In it, a couple come in to take a room for the night....but the woman appeared to be very strange. As it turns out, the woman believes that death is stalking her at every turn, and kills a cat, believing it was death coming for her. Her husband locks her in the room, but that night she attempts to escape, they get into a fight and he kills her, then shoots himself to death! After hearing the story, Jim tells Tom it was just a nightmare and not to pay any attention to it, and leaves. A few moments later, a car pulls up and the same couple Tom had seen in his dream were standing before him wanting a room!
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Disclose Notes: Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion. Previous indexer had Al Feldstein?
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...Trip Into the Unknown

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Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): A Fanta-Science SuspenStory
Character(s): scientific expedition [Professor Oppenheim; rest unnamed]; Eric; giant people (many die)
Synopsis: A crew blasts off toward their destination: Planet X, and, once they land, discover the remains of a once well-developed civilization. They discover a library and remove one of the books, then are suddenly attacked by giant people, and blast off for home. What they later discover in the book is that the planet that they just visited was called: the Earth!
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Lost in the Microcosm

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Genres: science fiction
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Disclose Notes: Swipe of the story "He Who Shrank" by Henry Hasse (first published in Amazing Stories August
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Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.
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Madness At Manderville

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Genres: horror
Synopsis: When Tom Mander and his wife lose their son Billy, Tom worries the strain may be driving her insane when she tells him that she sees and hears things he cannot. When they find a butcher knife soaked with blood in the kitchen and the dog in the cellar with its throat slashed Tom takes his wife in to see a doctor who has Tom committed to an insane asylum when his discussion reveals to the doctor that Tom cannot perceive sights and sounds that actually do occur.
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Disclose Notes: Script credit based on interview with William Gaines and Harvey Kurtzman in Squa Tront #9, 1983.
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Island of Death

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Writer(s): Richard Connell
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Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Vault of Horror
Character(s): Stephen Crane; Alec; Count Alvar Cabeza (villain, death)
Synopsis: Steve Crane, along with his partner Alec, are flying over a small island, when the plane develops engine trouble and crash-lands. Crane drags himself out of the water, spots a huge castle atop a mountain and manages to crawl up and knock on the door before he passes out. When he awakens several days later, he meets his benefactor, Count Cabeza, who provides a delicious meal before taking him into his trophy room. The Count shows him his animal trophy heads, but notes that he has yet to match wits with another type of animal: man! And Steve Crane is to be that man.
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Atom Bomb Thief!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Paul Arnold (villain, nuclear physicist's assistant, death); Karl (villain, Arnold's partner, death)
Synopsis: For some time, Paul Arnold has been sneaking out information re the atomic bomb to a partner of his, and, together, plan to sell the information to another world power for millions. But greed intervenes.....with disastrous results!
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The Man Who Raced Time

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Genres: science fiction
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Television Terror!

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Genres: horror
Feature(s): A Journey Into the Supernatural
Character(s): Al Hunt (death); Martha Babbit; Professor John Poltergeist (member of the London Society of Psychic Research, death)
Synopsis: A television personality, Al Hunt, broadcasts live from a haunted house --- a house in which the original owner, Mr. Creedmore, and subsequent inhabitants, all were found dead, hanging from the same beam in an upstairs bedroom. With cameras rolling, he enters the house with a famed psychic, allowing the viewing public the chance to judge for themselves.......they have quite a show in store for them!
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Disclose Notes: Said by Ghost story expert, Barbara Roden, to based on Robert Arthur's 'The Believers' (Weird Tales, July 1941; also published as 'Do You Believe in Ghosts?').

Letterer credit per Russ Cochran and added by Craig Delich 2013-12-8. Feldstein reports that Wroten used a K & E Lettering Stylus to do all the lettering with.
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Henry and His...Goon-Child

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Henry Short (radio store owner/operator); Mrs. Frabbis (radio shop customer, cameo); "Goon-Child" (villain, robot machine)
Synopsis: Bored with his life of radios and people, Henry Short reads of the Neurological Institute of England perfecting a "free will" robotic machine, as it were. So, he visits the local library to get the plans and build one himself... but one that will also obey him. What he doesn't foresee is that the machine redesigns itself and improves on the original plans... with devastating results to Henry Short!
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Story possibly inspired by "The Twonky" by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore.
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The Sounds from Another World

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Disclose Notes: Based on "The Sound Machine" by Roald Dahl.
Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.
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High Tide!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: crime
Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
Character(s): unnamed bookkeeper (death); unnamed civil service worker (death); unnamed lawyer (death); unnamed ship's skipper (villain, death)
Synopsis: Four men on a mail boat leave the infamous Mephisto Prison and soon hear by radio of the escape of one of the prisoners. When the boat's engine, clogged with sand, brings the craft to a halt a ways off shore, all fingers begin to point to each other as the culprit.
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The Mysterious Ray from Another Dimension!

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Character(s): Father Time; Norman Network (radio station magnant); Dr. Litmus; Sheldon Frebish
Synopsis: Norman Network refuses to allow television to run his (and the last) radio station in America out of business, and has devised a plan to win the battle: by convincing people that the rays from television sets are harmful to the viewer. And Doctor Litmus provides the proof... that television viewers disappear from their existence in the Earthly plane, then travel and exist in another dimension.
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The Radioactive Child!

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The Time Machine and the Shmoe!

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Character(s): Donald Yubyutch [aka a shmoe] (lab cleaning man); Professor Serutane; unnamed King
Synopsis: Professor Serutane creates a time-top machine and Donald volunteers to go along with the professor, who promptly turns him down. But, filled with heroic-like tendencies, Donald goes back in time in the machine all by himself into the 9th Century, where he is pronounced mad and assigned cleaning duties.
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The Last War On Earth

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The Giggling Killer

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Genres: crime
Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
Character(s): John Hewlett (death); Mrs. Hewlett (death); Tom (hotel clerk); Mrs. Loman (Lester's wife, death); Lester Loman (villain, death); The Giggling Killer (villain, hitch hiker)
Synopsis: With the newspapers reporting the deaths of people at the hands of "The Giggling Killer", poor Lester, nagged to death by his wife, plans to see if he in some way can establish an alibi and then kill his wife in the style of the killer. This he successfully does........and then he runs into a hitch hiker.......
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Disclose Notes: Vaguely influenced by Chicago's "Stop me before I kill more" lipstick killings attributed to William Heirens. Charles Einstein wrote a novel called "The Bloody Spur" about Heirens, and the novel was later adapted into the film "While the City Sleeps" by Fritz Lang.

Letterer credit by Craig Delich.
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The Dimension Translator

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): William Weeblefetzer [aka Willy] (research engineer); Mr. Bankbuck (research corporation head); unnamed wife of Mr. Bankbuck;
Synopsis: Willy has created a dimension translator, which can translate a series of photos into an electric impulse and through a series of other processes, creates an actual three dimentional object. His boss does not like his research engineer "wasting the company's time" on such things.....so Willy uses a photo of his boss to create a three dimensional figure of Mr. Bankbuck so that Willy can slap him around and get even.
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Man and Superman!

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... Gregory Had a Model-T!

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Lucky Fights It Through: The Story of That Ignorant Ignorant Cowboy

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Genres: western
Character(s): Lucky Jordan (cowpuncher); Lucky and Sal's children [Pete; Jim; Sally]; Chuck (cowboy); Saddle Sal; C. H. Brown (doctor); Katey (Hank's girl); Hank (villain, cowboy, death)
Synopsis: Lucky knew everything there was to know about horses, but that did not apply to women. And he had an enemy in a guy named Hank, who decides to get even with Hank for past issues. Hank gets his gal Katey to keep Lucky in town all night so that he can do a little job, and Lucky falls for her while she gets the cowpoke drunk. A few days later, Lucky notices a rash in his pelvic area, then later on his face and neck, which later clears up. At a rodeo, Lucky falls for Saddle Sal and wants to marry her, but hears a tune about syphilis, goes to a doctor and finds that he has it.
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The center portion of the story has an illustrated, two page spread with a song with lyrics, titled "That Ignorant, Ignorant Cowboy", with words by Eric Barnouw and music by Tom Glazer. The song is about syphilis.

At the bottom of page 16 is this: "Prepared by Educational Comics, Inc. for Communication Materials Center, Columbia U. Press VD 821. Copyright 1949 Columbia U. Press."
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Pearl Divers!

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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Mike Holford (shell picker); Eddie (bartender); Rex Kingdom (oyster diver); Tarsier (Rex's pet animal)
Synopsis: Mike tells Eddie that he is through with shell picking as the grounds are just about cleaned out, when Rex Kingdom enters and announces that his schooner, the Kingdom Come, is going to try his hand in pearl diving. Mike and Rex joins forces and agree to split everything evenly. Rex does the diving and brings up a great pearl, but is attacked by a tiger shark on the second dive. Rex discovers soon after that Mike smeared Rex's ballast with ground salt-beef, which attracted the shark.
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Disclose Notes: Pencil credit revised from Joe Kubert to Kurtzman layouts, per Thommy Burns in Fantagraphic's Man and Superman and Other Stories (2020).
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Synopsis: Close-up of a screaming man's face.
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Harvey Kurtzman

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First Line: He provided us with ammunition..."
Synopsis: Article about Kurtzman including art by him.
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Behind the Panels

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Synopsis: Biographies of Erik Barnouw, Richard Connell, Al Feldstein, Jerry De Fuccio, Tom Glazer, Ivan Klapper, Joe Kubert.
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Crime, Horror, Terror, Gore, Depravity, Disrespect for Established Authority - and Science Fiction, Too! The Ups and Downs of EC Comics

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The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library

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The Fantagraphics Harvey Kurtzman Collection

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All of Harvey Kurtzman's EC Science Fiction Stories - Plus More!

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Synopsis: Back cover.
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