The Martian Monster and Other Stories

Political opportunists attempt to stop robots from achieving world peace in the latest collection of short comics stories from one of the more subversive EC artists.

About the author

The Brooklyn-born Jack Kamen (1920-2008) began his career as a pulp illustrator and spent his last professional decades as an illustrator, but is best remembered for his half-decade at EC (and his 1982 contributions to the EC-inspired movie Creepshow).

Summary

Stories in this volume include "The Martian Monster," in which a 9-year-old boy befriends a Martian in the woods and asks him to kill his stepmother — but the "Martian" convinces him that it’s really his father who he should target. There’s sharp social commentary in "…And Then There Were Two!" (highly intelligent robots unveil a plan for world peace, but political opportunists launch an anti-robot campaign to discredit them) and "Prediction of Disaster!" (an astronomer concludes that our sun is about to go nova and tries to warn the world).

Product details

• Authors: Al Feldstein, Al Feldstein, Feldstein Al, Jack Kamen, Jack Kamen, Jack Feldstein Kamen, Kamen Jack
• Publisher: Fantagraphics
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 16
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9781683961680
• ISBN: 978-1-68396-168-0
• Series: EC Comics Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire; COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / General, Graphic Novels, Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: styles / traditions