The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #15 (2016) - Printings, Contents and Key Issues

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Series: The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (Fantagraphics, 2012 series)
Issue: #15
Issue title: The High Cost of Dying and Other Stories
Publication date: February 2016
Key date: February 10, 2016
On-sale date: February 10, 2016
Indicia publisher: Fantagraphics Books Inc.
Price: $29.99
Pages: 184
Barcode: 978160699908052999
ISBN: 978-1-60699-908-0

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits
0	-	cover	1	pencils: Reed Crandall; inks: Reed Crandall
1	-	blank page(s)	3
2	-	credits, title page	3	pencils: Reed Crandall; inks: Reed Crandall
3	-	table of contents	2	pencils: Reed Crandall; inks: Reed Crandall
4	-	illustration	1	pencils: ? (photo of Reed Crandall); inks: ? (photo of Reed Crandall)
5	The High Art of Crandall	text article	5	script: Bill Mason; pencils: Reed Crandall; inks: Reed Crandall
6	-	illustration	2	pencils: Reed Crandall; inks: Reed Crandall
7	-	illustration	1	pencils: Reed Crandall; inks: Reed Crandall
8	Carrion Death!	comic story	7	script: Bill Gaines, Al Feldstein; pencils: Reed Crandall; inks: Reed Crandall; letters: Jim Wroten
9	From Here to Insanity	comic story	7	script: Bill Gaines, Al Feldstein; pencils: Reed Crandall; inks: Reed Crandall; letters: Jim Wroten
10	Sweetie-Pie	comic story	7	script: Bill Gaines, Al Feldstein; pencils: Reed Crandall; inks: Reed Crandall; letters: Jim Wroten
11	-	illustration	1	pencils: Reed Crandall; inks: Reed Crandall
12	Bloody Sure	comic story	6	script: Bill Gaines, Al Feldstein; pencils: Reed Crandall; inks: Reed Crandall; letters: Jim Wroten
13	The Killer	comic story	6	script: Harvey Kurtzman; pencils: Reed Crandall; inks: Reed Crandall; letters: Jim Wroten
14	Memphis!	comic story	6	script: Bill Gaines, Al Feldstein; pencils: Reed Crandall; inks: Reed Crandall; letters: Ben Oda
15	...Only Skin Deep!	comic story	7	script: Bill Gaines, Al Feldstein; pencils: Reed Crandall; inks: Reed Crandall; letters: Jim Wroten
16	-	illustration	1	pencils: Reed Crandall; inks: Reed Crandall
17	Together They Lie!	comic story	8	script: Bill Gaines, Al Feldstein; pencils: Reed Crandall; inks: Reed Crandall; letters: Jim Wroten
18	The Space Suitors	comic story	6	script: Bill Gaines, Al Feldstein; pencils: Reed Crandall; inks: Reed Crandall; letters: Jim Wroten
19	The High Cost of Dying!	comic story	7	script: Bill Gaines, Al Feldstein; pencils: Reed Crandall; inks: Reed Crandall; letters: Jim Wroten
20	Plane Murder	comic story	7	script: Bill Gaines, Al Feldstein; pencils: Reed Crandall; inks: Reed Crandall; letters: Jim Wroten
21	The Silent Towns	comic story	8	script: Ray Bradbury, Al Feldstein; pencils: Reed Crandall; inks: Reed Crandall; letters: Jim Wroten
22	Smoke Wrings	comic story	6	script: Bill Gaines, Al Feldstein; pencils: Reed Crandall; inks: Reed Crandall; letters: Jim Wroten
23	The Kidnapper	comic story	6	script: Bill Gaines, Al Feldstein; pencils: Reed Crandall; inks: Reed Crandall; letters: Jim Wroten
24	Battle!	comic story	7	script: Robert Graves, Colin Dawkins; pencils: Reed Crandall; inks: Reed Crandall; letters: Ben Oda
25	-	illustration	1	pencils: Reed Crandall; inks: Reed Crandall
26	Mother's Day	comic story	8	script: Bill Gaines, Al Feldstein; pencils: Reed Crandall; inks: Reed Crandall; letters: Jim Wroten
27	Upon Reflection	comic story	6	script: Bill Gaines, Al Feldstein, Jack Oleck; pencils: Reed Crandall; inks: Reed Crandall; letters: Jim Wroten
28	In Each and Every Package	comic story	8	script: Bill Gaines, Al Feldstein; pencils: Reed Crandall; inks: Reed Crandall; letters: Jim Wroten
29	This'll Kill You!	comic story	8	script: Otto Binder; pencils: Reed Crandall; inks: Reed Crandall; letters: Jim Wroten
30	Return Blow	comic story	6	script: Carl Wessler; pencils: Reed Crandall; inks: Reed Crandall; letters: Jim Wroten
31	For Cryin' Out Loud!	comic story	6	script: Otto Binder; pencils: Reed Crandall; inks: Reed Crandall; letters: Jim Wroten
32	-	illustration	1	pencils: Reed Crandall; inks: Reed Crandall
33	-	illustration	1	pencils: Reed Crandall; inks: Reed Crandall
34	Reed Crandall	text article	5	script: S. C. Ringgenberg; pencils: Reed Crandall; inks: Reed Crandall
35	Behind the Panels	text article	2	script: Janice Lee, Tom Spurgeon, Arthur Lortie, S. C. Ringgenberg
36	-	illustration	1	pencils: Reed Crandall; inks: Reed Crandall
37	Crime, Horror, Terror, Gore, Depravity, Disrespect for Established Authority - and Science Fiction Too! The Ups and Downs of EC Comics	text article	3	script: Ted White
38	-	illustration	3	pencils: Reed Crandall; inks: Reed Crandall
39	-	blank page(s)	3
40	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	letters: typeset

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The Bitter End and Other Stories ISBN 978-1-68396-892-4	2024	On eBay ›

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Sources

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