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Johnny Craig was a vital part of EC Comics in the early 1950s and contributed to the line being looked back on as the best of the Pre-Code genre publishers. Craig's idiosyncratic style was ideal for EC's popular crime tales. This page comes from a story called "The Tryst" published in Shock SuspenStories #11 (1953). It's the story of a man who is jealous of his wife so he murders an orphan she wants to adopt. Pretty gruesome stuff and probably a story that would have been censored subsequent to the formation of the comics code, which put an end to EC's pre-code horror lines.
Note: The top right corner has a 5" bend and a 1/2" cut on the right margin
Note: The top right corner has a 5" bend and a 1/2" cut on the right margin
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1953, From "The Tryst!" A man is jealous of his wife so he murders an orphan she wants to adopt.
Magnifique planche de Johnny Craig, format Twice-up
Magnifique planche de Johnny Craig, format Twice-up
Publications
- Shock Suspenstories 11
- Gemstone Publishing
- 03/1995
- Interior page
- Volume 2
- Akileos
- 02/2016
- Interior page
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About Johnny Craig
John Thomas Alexis Craig better known as Johnny Craig, was an American comic book artist notable for his work with the EC Comics line of the 1950s. He sometimes used the pseudonyms Jay Taycee and F. C. Aljohn.
Early life and career
Born in Pleasantville, New York, Craig studied at the Art Students League of New York. While attending classes, he began working in 1940 as an assistant of Harry Lampert, co-creator of All-American Comics' Golden Age superhero the Flash. The following year, after Lampert was drafted to serve to World War II, All-American editor Sheldon Mayer kept Craig on as an art department assistant, giving him progressively more responsible art duties. Between 1943 and 1945, Craig served in the Merchant Marines and the U.S. Army.
EC Comics
Returning to comics after his discharge, he began drawing for EC Comics, beginning with the penciling and inking the cover of Moon Girl and the Prince #1 (cover-dated Fall 1947). He did additional work on the following issue of that science fiction / superhero series, now titled simply Moon Girl, and went on to draw stories for the EC Western comics Saddle Justice and Gunfighter and the crime comic Crime Patrol..
