The EC Archives: Confessions Illustrated

EC’s innovative and superbly done illustrated prose stories of scandal and forbidden romance. Collects the entire series illustrated by industry legends: Wally Wood, Joe Orlando, Reed Crandall, Johnny Craig and more, doing some of their finest work ever for EC! Issue #3 was completed but never published but is entirely collected here; it has a great painted cover by Rudy Nappi and stories by Jack Kamen, Craig and Orlando. Check out these steamy titles of the stories in #3: “High-School Bride,” “Teen-Age Temptress,” “Love Cheat,” “The Alcoholic,” and “Two Husbands.” EC knew how to lay it on thick, too bad circulation killed these interesting Picto-Fiction titles. I think some of EC’s most creative work is hidden in these end-of-an-era gems.