So in two weeks it will be Wally Wood's birthday, he would have been 90 years old this year if the comic industry didn't kill him. Wood was the greatest cartoonist to ever work in the comics industry, so much so that in a time when it was rare for a writer to get cover credit Wood was getting it as an inker.
In the words of Steranko "Woody could do everything. He could do cartoons like nobody. He could do realism. He could do Hal Foster. He could do Alex Raymond. He could do westerns, he could do horror, he could do everything and do it superbly."
To celebrate I'm gonna be doing some Wally Wood storytimes all month long. Even some of the racy stuff We're gonna start today with his EC comics stuff.
So in two weeks it will be Wally Wood's birthday...
Ian Collins
Parker Gonzalez
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Angel Phillips
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Nathaniel Powell
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Michael Gonzalez
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Jaxson Nelson
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Justin King
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Austin King
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Matthew Cook
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Caleb Torres
And now the comics
James Gutierrez
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Camden Collins
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Colton Flores
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Cameron Price
Any recommended collections? I'd get witzend but it's OOP
Hudson Brooks
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Brandon Jones
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Benjamin Ward
You can get this collection for $24 still, but the Slipcase library collection is up to $400 if you want more EC creators. There's another EC collection of his called Spawn of Mars too. You can also get his Cannon hardcover pretty cheap as well as Shattuck which is his western comic.
Adam Lee
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Ethan Jackson
Also Fantagraphics just republished a biography on him that I would also recommend
Ryder Robinson
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Charles King
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Hunter Richardson
I don't know why FG decided to do these in black and white. They'd be perfect if they were in color, the coloring is a huge part of the EC appeal.
Oliver Evans
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Lucas Clark
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Benjamin Walker
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Ryder Baker
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Aiden Foster
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Adam Gray
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Juan Price
I like the black and white, there have been a lot of EC reissues with color before too.
Camden Foster
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Joseph Campbell
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Josiah Miller
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Xavier Fisher
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Aiden Morales
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David Stewart
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Michael Walker
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Julian Hall
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Xavier Cox
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Caleb Young
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Michael Flores
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Levi Myers
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Cameron Hall
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Jaxon Ward
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Ryder Reed
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Adam Sanders
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Jackson Reed
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Joseph Gray
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Nathan Long
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Jacob Adams
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Jeremiah Gomez
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Nolan Long
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Zachary Price
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Matthew Murphy
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William Nelson
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Eli Robinson
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Juan Cook
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Jayden Long
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Christopher Ortiz
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Luke Anderson
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Elijah Wilson
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Carson Davis
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Connor Wright
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Robert Flores
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Leo Torres
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Matthew Mitchell
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Kevin King
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Samuel Smith
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Grayson Cruz
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Ayden Anderson
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Jordan Lee
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David Morales
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Jack Smith
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Jonathan Thompson
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Dominic Rogers
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John James
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Carter Baker
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Sebastian Smith
>if the comic industry didn't kill him
Wally Wood committed suicide because he couldn't face kidney dialysis. The comic industry didn't do anything to him that they didn't do to a thousand other writers and artists.
Stop making stuff up.
Christian Howard
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Logan Cruz
Wally Wood faced kidney dialysis from alcoholism due to the stress working in the comics industry. He was the greatest to ever live and he died penniless in an apartment smaller than your bedroom.
And I would argue that Wood and the rest of the EC creators did face harder times in the industry due to the CCA's hatred for EC.
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Jack Reyes
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Kevin Gray
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Christopher Hughes
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Benjamin Johnson
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Ryan Cook
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Lincoln Phillips
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Joshua Bennett
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Noah Sullivan
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Carter Jones
>alcoholism due to the stress working in the comics industry
It's always nice when you can boil something as complex as a human life down to a causal relationship between two unsourced assertions. But really, the important thing is that you've managed to form an angry, contentious opinion about something nobody cares about. Kudos.
Luke Richardson
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Luis Johnson
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Jason Gray
I'm not angry user.
Nolan Wilson
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Oliver Lee
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Nicholas Jenkins
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Thomas Robinson
That's as idiotic as saying the comics industry killed Joe Maneely because he fell in front of a subway train on his way to work.
Jeremiah Turner
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Lincoln Bennett
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Eli Green
Okay.
Juan Phillips
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