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Until I saw these stories, I was only familiar with Angelo Torres from his later Mad Magazine work, which was good but never excited me. I was blown away by this post showing several of Torres’ early sci-fi stories, done in a lush style reminiscent of the late Frank Frazetta. It turns out that these are actually from a book I’ve already highlighted in “Comics I Love Even Though I’ve Only Seen the Covers”, Astonishing. I would have assumed that the insides were just EC Comics knockoffs, but, upon reading these, I discovered that I loved the writing on these pithy little stories almost as much as the art. EC stories were all 7-8 pages and too verbose. These four pagers are much tighter and really hit the spot. Here’s my favorite, but check out the others too:
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