EC Lives! #[nn]
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free"The Monkey" delivers a chilling, blackly comic tale from the legendary EC renaissance of 1972, written by Al Feldstein and illustrated with haunting precision by Graham Ingels, whose stark artwork elevates the story’s grim tension. When an art dealer’s attempt to inspire three reclusive sisters through murder backfires, the result is a disturbing twist of fate that turns his own violence into their next masterpiece. Wally Wood’s cover captures the story’s unsettling tone, a perfect match for this darkly inventive short.
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An art dealer murders a man in order to inspire three old sisters who create beautiful tapestries upon witnessing violent deaths of people. When he finds them not working, as they claim to be uninspired, he becomes frustrated with them and admits that he murdered the man before he sent his car smashing into the wall. Angry with him for tricking them, saying murder isn't fair......it has to be an accident, like when they pushed father under the train, and the next man into the path of a car, they dismember the art dealer and weave his body parts into a tapestry.
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