![]() Those fans will have the old comics in the EC Annuals, the black and white art in the EC Library, and the best color we can produce in the EC Archives. It has been my experience that the most dedicated EC fans are not satisfied to have them reprinted only one, or two, ways. So the EC material has been printed three different ways: with the old color, as originally published back in the 1950s, without any color, as it was drawn by the EC artists (the EC Library), and with the best color we can do with modern technology (the EC Archives). ![]() If these new computer generated color techniques had been available in the 1950s, I think Bill Gaines would have used it because it makes the EC work even more beautiful. We are now able to color these comics with an infinite palette, and to reproduce the artists' linework much more clearly. Crediting Kronenberg as "Art Director/Designer and Color Editor" and Marie Severin for "Colors", Cochran explained the digital upgrade given to Severin's coloring "Most of the original coloring of these stories is the work of EC colorist Marie Severin, and although all of these stories have been re-colored for this new edition, her style of coloring was followed to retain the integrity of the original EC comic books". Also contributing to the project at Cochran's West Plains office were operations manager Angela Meyer and production artist Chris Rock. Allen Jamison and Jamison Services had previously done coloring for the DC Archives. The original coloring by EC's colorist Marie Severin was used as a guide for digital recoloring by Jamison Services, a color separation company in West Plains, Missouri, the hometown of publisher Cochran. ![]() Įach book reprints six issues for a total of 24 stories. These are slightly smaller hardcover books (smaller than the EC Library volumes but larger than the original ten-cent comic books), and because of increased demand and the availability of cheaper color printing in China, the EC Archives books were full color, with new color in an infinite palette now being possible with the advances in technology. On January 11, 2011, Cochran looked back on the project, noting the differences between his earlier EC Library and the later EC Archives:Ī few years ago, with the support and encouragement of Steve Geppi and with the permission of the Gaines Estate, I started on a new format: the EC Archives. Similar to the DC Archives and Marvel Masterworks series, the EC Archives superseded Cochran's original annotated EC Library (of black-and-white stories) by reprinting sequential compilations of EC titles in a full-color, hardback archival format with new annotations. It's up to you to find the slumbering evil and seal it, before it awakens.In 2006, Gemstone began producing a more durable series of hardback reprint collections designed by Michael Kronenberg. The world's fate rests on your shoulders. Your brothers at the monastery dismiss it as a pagan heresy, however you know better than that. It foretells its awakening which will lead to our world being consumed by its dark shadow. The StoryThe prophecy speaks of an ancient evil that slumbers within a crypt. What is Dark Crypt?A turn-based puzzler with a teleporting mechanic about sneaking through an ancient crypt, while avoiding its traps and the undead. Plan your movesĭark Crypt is turn-based, you can take your time to plan and execute the moves. ![]() Your only weapon is your wits and the shadows. Place a teleport ahead of time and then teleport back to it. You can't always just walk past the undead. The dead have risen from their graves and haunt this crypt.
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