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I was very disappointed in the overall quality of the art, particularly of the much over-lauded (and overrated) Harvey Kurtzman.


I'm shocked. I've never heard anyone criticize EC comics based on their art. Kurtzman overrated? Read "Air Burst" or any of his other great war tales. IMHO EC comics not only had the best art top to bottom of any publisher at any time, they are also responsible for some of the finest, if not the best, comic stories every published, including this gem that obviously pioneered techniques that would later make people hail Frank Miller as a genius when he sponged them up:

Impact No. 1 - The best comic story ever (click on the image to flip the page)