Back in the day, maybe your grandfather’s day, there was a comic company named EC. Supposedly “Educational Comics”, if you want to believe that. But anyway, the streets have a way of teaching a fella a lesson or two, so this here is my review of Dark Horse’s Crime Patrol Volume 1.
Well, youse can bet your $50 right here and now, that this Hard covered and Hard boiled volume, collecting the contents of issues 7-11, (I know, but don’t ask) is a hard hitting pile of comics to read. What a treat.
You see, although some of the names of the creators have been lost to time, we DO know that the writers included Gardner Fox and Al Feldstein. And the art, drawn by Johnny Craig, Sheldon Moldoff, Stan Ashe, and Ann Brewster, plus other lesser-knowns. They kept the colouring the way it was in the original pressing of those old funny books from the forties, see. So it’s bright and cheerful, all the airplanes are coloured red for example. But anyway.
It’s crime gone off the rails, a real big punchy bunch of crime stories, this one. The scenes will make your heart race, believe me. Women tied up and being kept captive, bad guys plotting schemes and people shooting each other. Hang on, my phone’s ringing. Be right back.
Okay, that was a scam call. But anyways, I loved it, but then I have a fond recollection of the good old days of comics, when colour was right direct, the dialogue was punctuated by Brooklyn slang, and men wore hats and suits while holding up banks. I love that stuff, eh?
It’s all grim and ghastly and riddled with bad intentions, and that’s what I like anyway and maybe you will too, Bub.
Hey, thanks for letting me step in and try my hand at writing reviews, especially for this here book. Maybe I could step in and do this again, it was easy.
Dark Horse EC Archives Crime Patrol Vol 1, $49.99 for 184 pages of content
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