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Post by endo on Feb 27, 2020 15:40:18 GMT -5
A publisher for over 30 years, Russ Cochran was instrumental in bringing the E.C. comics library back to the public eye by publishing the reprints of the original comics from the 50s.
"Cochran's reprints (which have been released through a number of publishers, including Cochran himself) were compiled primarily from copies of the original artwork pages (complemented when necessary by scans of the original printed comics), which were owned by EC Publisher William Gaines. Cochran befriended Gaines and also handled the resale of the original artwork to collectors via mail-auction catalogs during the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s."
From 1978 to 1996 he helped publish almost the entire E.C. library. The reprints include:
The Complete Tales From the Crypt(No. 17-46) (5 volumes, 1979)
The Complete Two-Fisted Tales (No. 18-41) (4 volumes, 1980)
The Complete Weird Science (No. 1-22) (4 volumes, 1980)
The Complete Weird Fantasy (No. 1-22) (4 volumes, 1980)
The Complete Shock SuspenStories (No. 1-18) (3 volumes, 1981)
The Complete Frontline Combat (No. 1-15) (3 volumes, 1982)
The Complete The Vault of Horror (No. 12-40) (5 volumes, 1982)
The Complete Weird Science-Fantasy (No. 23-29)/Incredible Science Fiction (No. 30-33) (2 volumes, 1982)
The Complete Crime SuspenStories (No. 1-27) (5 volumes, 1983)
The Complete Panic (No. 1-12) (2 volumes, 1984)
The Complete The Haunt of Fear (No. 1-28) (5 volumes, 1985)
He also published reprints of the original Mad magazine:
The Complete MAD in Black and White (No. 1-23) (4 volumes, 1986)
The Complete MAD in Color (No. 1-23) (4 volumes, 1986)
He also worked with Gladstone Publishing and Gemstone Publishing from the early to late 90's to publish even more of the original E.C. comics as well as working with Dark Horse from 2013 on.
Without him, the E.C comics library probably would have been lost to a new generation of comic fans. His brother announced his death this past weekend on Facebook.
The portrait of Cochran above was done by the great Frank Frazetta.
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Post by NDX on Feb 29, 2020 0:58:54 GMT -5
The Cochran reprints are some of my holy grails. I actually have the Tales From the Crypt set. If I was better off I'd have a lot more right now.
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Post by MacReadyOrNot on Feb 29, 2020 15:34:50 GMT -5
Sorry to hear this. RIP
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