EC's Shock Illustrated

Shock Illustrated was part of EC's short-lived "Picto-Fiction" line. The third issue was printed but publisher William Gaines could not afford to have them bound. The publisher bound 100 to 200 copies of that issue and they were given away or sold to fans who ordered the issue. It remains a holy grail for many EC collectors.

Shock Illustrated #1, Sep-Oct 1955. Cover art by Jack Kamen.

Shock Illustrated #2, Winter 1955, Cover art by Rudy Nappi.

Shock Illustrated #3,Spring 1956. Cover art by Rudy Nappi.

Frank Frazetta art from the unpublished fourth issue.

Trash!

Campus Call Girl, 1964. Unknown artist.

"Sergeant Gregory's Escape from Red Chinese Captivity," cover for Stag magazine, October 1960. Art by Mort Kunstler.

By Love Depraved, 1961. Art by Ernest Chiriacka.

Women's Doctor, 1952. Art by Rudy Nappi.

Swamp Kill, 1952. Unknown artist.

"Nazi Standoff," cover for Cavalcade magazine, November 1959. Unknown artist.

Paperback Book Covers

Some cool paperback book covers...





Outside the Law by Philip Loraine, 1953. Cover art by Raymond Pease. I really like this one.






Club Stud Sinners by Earl Finnery, 1966. Unknown artist.






Farmer's Wife by Peggy Caddis, 1952. Cover art by Rudy Nappi.






Family! by Fannie Hurst, 1975. Cover art by David J. Blossom.

Nurses!

Yeah, nurses. I had run across the image below of the cover art for Nurse Kate's Mercy Flight and liked it. It's done in this 1960's, slick commercial style I like, plus it is hard not to get a chuckle out of the cheesy stud pilot guy in the background. So I was looking for other nurse art to post with it, and damn, there's a lot stuff with nurses on it out there.

I'm saving Nellie the Nurse for her own post sometime in the near future.




Cover art for Nurse Kate's Mercy Flight, Ace Books, 1968. Book by Virginia Smiley, unknown artist.




The Nurses #3, October 1963. Gold Key Comics.




Cover art for Dr. Barry's Nurse, Ace Books, 1968. Art by Rudy Nappi. The same guy who did the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew covers in the mid-1960's.




Myra North, Special Nurse. Four Color (series 1) #3, Dell Comics, 1940.

Boy Hungry!

Cover art by Rudy Nappi for Kate Nickerson's novel, Boy Hungry, Carnival Books #951, 1953. Nappi also did the covers for the 1960's editions of the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew books.

Teenage Sleuths

By Rudy Nappi



The Hardy Boys, The Secret of Skull Mountain, 1966.




Nancy Drew, The Ghost of Blackwood Hall, 1967.