{"product_id":"weird-horrors-daring-adventures-joe-kubert-9781606995815","title":"Weird Horrors \u0026 Daring Adventures","description":"Joe Kubert sealed his reputation as one of the greatest American comic-book cartoonists of all time with the four-color adventures of Sgt. Rock of Easy Company, Enemy Ace, and Tarzan, all done for DC Comics during the 1960s and 1970s (themselves already the subject of archival editions)... but he had been working in comics since the 1940s. In fact, young Kubert produced an exciting, significant body of work as a freelance artist for a variety of comic book publishers in the postwar era, in a glorious variety of non-super hero genres: horror, crime, science fiction, western, romance, humor, and more. For the first time, 33 of the best of these stories have been collected in one full-color volume, with a special emphasis on horror and crime. The Kubert work in this book is that of a burgeoning talent attacking the work with tremendous panache, and in the process, developing a style that became one of the most distinctive in the medium. Since these stories were written and drawn in the pre-Comics Code era, they are more thrilling, violent and sexy (by contemporary standards) than much of his later, Code-constrained work. And just the titles of the comic books from which these stories are taken are wonderfully evocative of a bygone era of four-color fun: \u003cem\u003eCowpuncher\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAbbott and Costello Comics\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThree Stooges\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eEerie\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePlanet Comics\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMeet Miss Pepper\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eStrange Terrors\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGreen Hornet Comics\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWhack\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eJesse James\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eOut of This World\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCrime Does Not Pay\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWeird Thrillers\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePolice Lineup\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eHollywood Confessions\u003c\/em\u003e. As with Fantagraphics' acclaimed Steve Ditko and Bill Everett Archives series, \u003cem\u003eWeird Horrors and Daring Adventures\u003c\/em\u003e boasts state-of-the-art restoration and retouching, and historical notes by the book's editor Bill Schelly, author of the \u003cem\u003eArt of Joe Kubert\u003c\/em\u003e art book and \u003cem\u003eMan of Rock\u003c\/em\u003e Kubert biography.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joe Kubert\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1606995812\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781606995815\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fantagraphics Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/18\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.60h x 7.40w x 1.00d","brand":"Joe Kubert","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43938703835391,"sku":"9781606995815","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_9393ebb8-8366-43ce-9e91-6c53656d2db9.jpg?v=1681437248","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/weird-horrors-daring-adventures-joe-kubert-9781606995815","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}