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Canada Goose Outlet In my first book, Was Superman a Spy? and Other Comic Book Legends Revealed, I told a neat story about how Ray Bradbury dealt with the fact that Williams Gaines and EC Comics were adapting his stories without his permission (and without paying him). It was a very clever and cordial solution by Bradbury (read the book to see how he did it) and when it was all said and done, EC Comics began producing officially licensed adaptations of Bradbury’s short stories. Here, then, are the eight canada goose outlet germany best adaptations EC Comics did of Bradbury’s short stories. Canada Goose Outlet
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cheap canada goose uk Originally titled “Dwellers in Silence,” this tale was canada goose outlet ontario re worked by Bradbury to make it fit with his classic story collection The Martian Chronicles (Bradbury put his various stories about Mars into one collection and created continuity between the stories). It is now twenty years later and the crew is back to meet up with the mechanically inclined doctor and his family, who oddly enough do not appear to canada goose outlet vancouver have aged in twenty years. cheap canada goose uk
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buy canada goose jacket cheap 2. “There Will Come Soft Rains. ” (Weird Science 17, January/February 1953) buy canada goose jacket cheap
Canada Goose Jackets Legendary artist Wally Wood has a tour de force performance detailing the subject of this tale (which also was included in The Martian Chronicles). The canada goose outlet online subject of the story is, oddly enough, a house. If you never thought you’d feel depressed for a house, just wait until Feldstein and Wood are through with this story about an automated house canada goose outlet black friday sale on Mars that continues its daily activities even though its occupants have died in a nuclear explosion. Haunting imagery abounds canada goose outlet online uk in this wonderfully dark tale. Canada Goose Jackets
3. “The Screaming Woman!” (Crime SuspenStories 15, February/March 1953)
canada goose clearance sale This adaptation by Feldstein and artist Jack Kamen might be the weakest of the eight stories on this list (and if you’re going to argue for the inclusion of another story, then this is the one you’d argue to be removed), but I just cannot help but find myself enthralled with the different approach Bradbury takes with this story, especially when compared to his other crime tales. canada goose clearance sale
It opens up with a typical enough conceit. A little girl on the way home from an errand hears a woman screaming from under the ground. The only problem is that canada goose outlet nyc no one will take the little girl seriously.
That is how the story begins, but by the end of it, it turns out to be a triumphant celebration of the importance of human interaction. As the old song asks, “Should old acquaintances be forgot and never brough to mind?” Well, this story canada goose uk site screams a resounding “NO!” After all, those old acquantinces might someday save your life. A side lesson this also teaches us is that canada goose outlet online store while many people will come in and out of your life, even likely more than canada goose outlet toronto one love of your life, you will always remember when someone writes a song for you.
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4. “The Small Assassin” (Shock SuspenStories 7, February/March 1953)
One canada goose outlet toronto location of the earliest of the official EC adaptations of Bradbury’s works was also one of the creepiest. For this one story, I’ll be doing a SPOILER WARNING. Based on the short story by the same name, this twisted little canada goose jacket outlet tale was adapted by Feldstein and artist George Evans. It is canada goose outlet location about a young mother who feels that her newborn son is trying to kill her. Her husband does not believe her until it is too late. After her death, the baby kills his father, as well. He is caught, though, by the family doctor. In a scene that you will have to see to believe, the doctor calmly tells the baby that he brought him into the world so he has the responsibility of taking him out. He goes into his bag and tells the baby, “See, baby? Something bright! Something shiny! A scalpel.” Outlandishly chilling stuff.
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Canada Goose Coats On Sale Another story that Bradbury adapted for The Martian Chronicles, Feldstein and Wally Wood canada goose outlet montreal adapted the original story (which is not much different from the one that appeared in The Martian Chronicles, just some changes for continuity’s sake, really). In this story, a group of astronauts land on Mars only to find it populated with their dead relatives, leading them to perhaps believe that, well, Mars is Heaven! Canada Goose Coats On Sale
Canada Goose online The Captain of the mission tries to keep his men in line, but the pull of their closest relatives is too strong to resist (even for the Captain himself eventually). But is this really what it seems or are the Martians playing a canada goose jacket outlet store terribly cruel trick on the astronauts? Canada Goose online
Wood does a great job depicting the “lost in time” feel of this take on Mars.
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It is hard for me to imagine how canada goose outlet los angeles the 1953 comic book reader must have reacted when they picked up Vault of Horror 31 and read “The Lake” (adapted by Feldstein and Joe Orlando). The same month, Batman was fighting a crime predicting robot and Superman was helping to peel potatoes for Lois Lane during her stint in the Women’s Army Corps. So to go from that to this, a hauntingly sophisticated tale of a young boy obsessed with the death of his childhood sweetheart, must have been mind blowing.
Orlando’s lush and evocative artwork perfectly captured the story of the boy as he grows into manhood and returns to the lake where his sweetheart drowned a decade earlier.
This is a bittersweet tribute canada goose outlet 2015 to the way all young boys have to grow up and become a man, and leave behind the pains of their youth. One of, if not the best adaptation EC Comics did of Bradbury’s work. I would have loved to see how readers reacted to it when it first came out.
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In http://www.canadagoosecanadaoutlet.com this adaptation of Bradbury’s “The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl,” while Feldstein does a faithful adaptation of Bradbury’s story, the star of this comic is artist Johnny Craig, who does a wonderful job depicting the obsession of the lead character in the tale, a murderer who becomes afraid that he has left fingerprints all over the house of his victim. He frantically wipes everything clean (including, yes, the fruit at the bottom of the bowl) even as he begins to canada goose outlet london uk see fingerprints everywhere. Craig is outstanding as he shows fingerprints popping up canada goose outlet price here canada goose discount uk and there as the murderer spirals into madness. It is a sequential art masterpiece by the great Johnny Craig.
Canada Goose Online 8. “Outcast of the Stars” (Weird Science 22, November/December 1953) Canada Goose Online
canada goose clearance In “Outcast of the Stars” (adapted by Feldstein and Joe Orlando from the Bradbury story of the same name), interplanetary travel has been achieved, but it is only available to the rich. A junkyard owner is obsessed with the idea of traveling through space and so has saved up money for years (money his family as well as his business could use for a new furnace) in the hopes of perhaps purchasing a single ticket. The man’s next door neighbor, though, canada goose outlet warns him of the folly of his idea, as if he were to go into space, his wife and family would never forgive him. The lesson is, in effect, “just accept your lot in canada goose outlet winnipeg address life.” canada goose clearance
However, when the man is given the opportunity to purchase a scale model prototype for an actual rocket, he spends most of his savings on the rocket. His wife is furious. However, she comes around when the man begins work on the rocket and changes his family’s life forever. canada goose outlet new york It is a heartwarming take on the power of the human spirit. Like on “The Long Years!,” Joe Orlando’s take on the facial expressions of the people involved in the story is outstanding. He gets across the pain and frustration these people feel but also their hope. The recent Billy Bob Thornton film, The canada goose outlet store new york Astronaut Farmer, was loosely based on this story.
That’s the list! Before I go, though, I thought I’d share something Bradbury wrote to William Gaines (after their “dispute” was resolved the two became friends and corresponded with each other often) about the adaptations of his stories by EC Comics.
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