Feldstein Al: Forty Whacks & Other Stories

Jack Kamen's precise, clean style was perfect subversion for EC Comics tales of seemingly normal men and women who cooly act on the rage, jealousy, and greed just below their glamorous façades. Kamenâ??s crime capers include â?oForty Whacksâ? (Whatever became of that ax Lizzie Borden used?), â?oContract for Deathâ? (A suicidal man agrees to accept $5,000 for his fresh corpse, then changes his mind. But the contract fails to specify that the body has to be hisâ?¦), â?oThe Neat Job!â? (Her â?oneat freakâ? husband drove her crazy, so when she chopped him up into little piecesâ?¦), â?oJust Desserts!â? (A madman bent on revenge hosts a dinner for his victims â?¦ and the final course is a killer!) â?" plus 20 more gripping tales of tension as only EC could do them! Like every book in the Fantagraphics EC Artistsâ?? Library, Forty Whacks And Other Stories also features essays and notes by EC experts on these superbly crafted, classic masterpieces.