The cover was drawn by Joe Simon in Jack Kirby's style.
I'm showing three stories today, the cover story, “They Walked On Water,” “The Strange One,” both drawn by Doug Wildey, and “Get Lost,” drawn by Ernie Schroeder. Schroeder we know from several Airboy stories posted on this blog. These stories are all Code-approved, but even without being horror they are moody and have a lot of atmosphere. The first two stories are swamp gothic, and “The Strange One” is set mostly in the dark, with deep shadows and dark figures.
This is the fourth Harvey posting this month. It's a coincidence and I didn't notice it until now. You have to admit, despite all being from the same publisher, the entries are very different from each other. I even have more Harvey Comics coming up in the next few weeks.
"The Strange One" was actually a direct lift from an EC sci-fi story (don't remember the name, would have to flip through my collection.)
ReplyDeleteNot sure if it was an EC adaptation of something or an original, but it follows the same basic plot.
I don't know any specific connection, Brian, but you'd have to look far and wide to see any originality in comics, which stole shamelessly from each other, as well as movies, radio, television...
ReplyDeleteEC's treatments and artwork may have made them famous, but Gaines admitted he used springboards for the stories: he found them in science fiction anthologies and even Bennett Cerf's Try and Stop Me, a popular compilation of anecdotes.