{"product_id":"sucker-bait-and-other-stories-hardcover-by-al-feldstein","title":"Sucker Bait And Other Stories Hardcover by Al Feldstein","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                \n                    \n                        \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                        \u003cul\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003eFantagraphics\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2014-02-15)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e216\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9781606996898\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e793.8\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e26.16 x 18.57 x 2.26\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                        \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                        \u003cbr\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Ghastly” Graham Ingels drew this collection of gruesome short comics stories with twist endings, often “hosted” by Ingels’ “Old Witch” character: ripped from the pages of EC comics such as \u003ci\u003eTales From the Crypt\u003c\/i\u003e.\n\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEven 60 years after their original release, in an era of explicit horror, EC Comics superstar Graham “Ghastly” Ingels’s grisly pages retain the power to shock. His loving depictions of the endless corruption of flesh and nature made him the go-to guy for stories involving swamps, maniacs, and dismemberment — and all three combined to best effect in one of the standouts of this collection of his stories: “Horror We? How’s Bayou?” — considered the single most spectacularly drawn of all of EC’s horror stories, with a climax that would give body-horror king David Cronenberg nightmares. Ingels specialized in depicting the unimaginable. If you ever wondered what the vengeful, decaying corpse of an elephant stomping a woman to death would look like, it’s in here (“Squash...Anyone?”). Or living rats sewn into the bodies of a tyrannical king and queen (“A Grim Fairy Tale”)... or the results of injecting a “poison-pen” letter writer with literal poison and reducing him to, in the words of Al Feldstein’s script, a “foul-smelling, oozing pool of putrescence” (“Notes to You!”). One of the two Ray Bradbury adaptations in the book, “There Was an Old Woman” (about a deceased crone who simply refuses to stay dead) provides the closest thing to a note of sweetness that you’ll find here — perhaps with the exception of the genuinely romantic “A Little Stranger!” and its loving marriage between a dead vampire and a dead werewolf. \u003ci\u003eSucker Bait And Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e features 25 classic stories from \u003ci\u003eTales From the Crypt\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eShock Suspen-Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVault of Horror\u003c\/i\u003e, and Ingels and his “Old Witch” character’s special showcase \u003ci\u003eHaunt of Fear\u003c\/i\u003e — plus the usual fascinating historical, critical, and biographical material.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n                        \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlbert B. Feldstein\u003c\/b\u003e (1928–2014; Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame, 2003) was a triple-threat writer, artist, and editor, renowned for his work on such titles as \u003ci\u003eWeird Science\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTales From the Crypt\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMAD\u003c\/i\u003e magazine. He received the Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGraham Ingels\u003c\/b\u003e (1915–1991), began working for EC Comics, drawing Western, romance, and crime stories, in 1948. But it was with the advent of EC’s horror titles that \"Ghastly\" Graham Ingels's detailed work perfectly evoked the proper mood for the kind of wickedly macabre stories EC excelled at, and it made him a fan favorite. Ingels drew the lead feature for every issue of \u003ci\u003eHaunt of Fear\u003c\/i\u003e starting with #4, but his work, \"hosted\" by his signature character, the Old Witch, appeared regularly in all three EC horror titles and in \u003ci\u003eCrime SuspenStories\u003c\/i\u003e. In 1989, Ingels returned briefly to the comics landscape when he created a series of oil paintings featuring the Old Witch.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGary Groth\u003c\/b\u003e is the co-founder of \u003ci\u003eThe Comics Journal\u003c\/i\u003e and Fantagraphics Books. 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