Fans who devoured 2002's Eisner- and Harvey-winning biography/artbook B. Krigstein Vol. 1 had only one question: "When can we see more of Krigstein's astonishing comics work?!" This magnificent companion volume, a full-color collection of 35 complete stories by Krigstein, answers that question in spades! Editor Greg Sadowski has meticulously compiled Krigstein's finest stories from his brief (1949 to 1956) but astonishing comics career, including romance, crime, horror, and even Western stories from the publishers Rae Herman, Hillman, Atlas, DC and EC. With over half the stories newly re-colored by legendary EC colorist Marie Severin (including the EC masterpieces "Pipe Dream" and "The Keys"), and the rest of them meticulously restored from printed comics (and in some cases from original proofs in Krigstein's files) by Sadowski, this is, at long last, the book this great cartoonist (inducted into the Eisner Award "Jack Kirby Hall of Fame" in 2003) has deserved for over half a century.
"Anyone interested in crossing the ever-narrowing divide between High and Low culture ought to contemplate the work and troubled career of Bernard Krigstein, a postwar comic-book illustrator who had the privilege and misfortune of being an Artist with a capital 'A' working in an Art Form that considered itself only a Business." – The New Yorker
"Krigstein was one of the early masters of the [comic book] form, whose best work exhibits a richness and psychological depth unusual for its time. – Library Journal
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