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Russ Cochran EC Library

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JonTheScanner:
I really prefer them to the color reprints.  The art is gorgeous.

bminor:
Well The Haunt of Fear has just arrived and I have eagerly torn into the box.
The set is now complete!
From 1980 to 2016 to complete the entire library, only 36 years! Not to bad!
Satisfied sigh.....

Now to somehow get a hold of those 3D issues they made:
Three Dimensional EC Classics
Three Dimensional Tales From The Crypt Of Terror
Three Dimensional Weird Science-Fantasy (never printed to all the work was done except for the cover)
From what I have heard the artwork on these three books were entirely redrawn by the artists for 3D reproduction.

I am graphic designer and printer and would love to print these books out for myself and then hard cover bind them (complete with slip case) in the large format of the Cochran EC Library!!!  Book binding is not really that difficult and would be a fun project! I have dabbled in it a bit before.
B.

Yoc:
Congrats B!
Must be very satisfying in deed.

My my, nobody can say you aren't ambitious either.  Good luck with those 3D books too.
;)

Poztron:
I'm old (or is that ancient?) enough to have started getting the Cochran EC reprint sets when they first started up. Early on I subscribed for the whole library, set by set, as they came out. I opted for the MAD set in color, as I already had the old Ballantine MAD paperback reprints in B&W. The whole library fills out a 56" shelf. I've enjoyed them over the years, but in the next few years I will probably be looking to sell them all off as a set. Russ really did right by the series. And those were the days before Chinese printing!

tv horror:
I have this collection and love the EC tradition with living in the U.K I grew up buying the old black and white reprints of most of the major titles. Maybe that's why I appreciate the artwork more without the colour, from the Alan Class titles to the British weeklies I was hooked. However I do have a great fondness for the way some artist's work stands out without the colour. Again my love is the EC titles in this library collection and to a lesser degree the Marvel / DC Showcase volumes, Tomb of Dracula by Gene Colan is outstanding. In fact I'm drooling waiting on a IDW artist edition of his Dracula work if ever there's one published (I'm getting two, one for framing and one to drool over LOL). As for the EC team they were the cream of the crop and produced a lot of classic stories it was a shame that they were cut off in their prime.

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