The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #30
"Roped In!" is a chilling tale from the Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #30, showcasing the masterful storytelling of Al Feldstein and Bill Gaines alongside George Evans’s stark, expressive art—both in the interior and on the cover, which he also penciled and inked. The story follows a desperate posse confronting a monstrous entity born from a cursed bargain, as a dying man’s fate becomes entwined with a horror that defies death. A haunting blend of frontier dread and body horror, it’s a standout in the EC legacy, delivered with precision and unease.
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The posse stood before the mouth of the dark cave, where they had trailed a creature that had killed ten of their own, stripping their flesh from their bones. Doc told them he'd seen this creature long ago....before it came to look like it did now. Pete came to see Doc with a lump on his arm, which he discovered was cancer, and he only had a few months to live. Dejected, Pete went to see the Old Hag up on Baldy Mountain, and she hexed him so that he'd never die....IF he'd agree to never ask her to un-hex him. When Pete returned later to see Doc, his arm had been taken over by the cancerous tumor....and slowly more of his body was taken over until all the healthy cells were destroyed and all that was left were cancerous cells gone wild. Just then, the oozing thing emerged from the cave, and the men threw searing torches at it until it retreated back into the cave. Then the men blocked up the entrance.....and prayed no one would ever uncover that entrance!
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