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Tweak says, "Double standards will hurt you"

cyberghostface (cyberghostface) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-04-05 20:27:00

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publisher: ec comics, title: shock suspenstories

The Kidnapper

This one's from Shock SuspenStories #17.

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	besamim 2009-04-05 09:10 pm UTC (link)
	Shock is my favourite EC title too (along with MAD). Also not bad is Impact, a sort-of successor but toned down to conform with the just-established Comics Code. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

jlroberson
2009-04-05 11:06 pm UTC (link)

Those reprints of the individual issues of IMPACT were the first time I'd seen anything but "Master Race." I was struck by the quality of the work, but even more so that the stories suddenly seemed very safe and prone to happy (but still twist) endings. Then again, some of those are very good, the sweetest of all these sort of stories having to do with a poor little girl selling lemonade, a cranky shopowner trying to make her go, and a mysterious benefactor who keeps giving her more lemonade to sell. The ending is guaranteed to give even the most cynical person a lump in their throat.

I'll bet some of you are assuming, "Well, then, that's GOT to be Jack Kamen." Actually--it's Graham Ingels.

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	besamim 2009-04-05 11:26 pm UTC (link)
	I know! It takes some getting used to, seeing Ingels illustrating a sweet, down-to-earth, non-gory story. But he did a few good ones during Impact's short run. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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