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EC – Cruel Universe                        Comics Lot
Featuring the Complete Cover A Collection by Greg Smallwood.  Awesome!!
Editors: Rian Hughes, Angie Knowles, Jung Hu Lee, Matt Dryer, & Sierra Hahn
All Main Covers #1A,2A,3A,4A,5A by: Greg Smallwood

Compelled to Oblivion, driven to Entropy, all life in our cosmos can only end in one place: complete annihilation! For the first time in 70 years, the limitless fury of E.C. Comics rages back to life to shred the very fabric of the universe itself – and wrench bizarre tales of time and space into our dimensional plane! A cosmic maelstrom of strange extraterrestrial entities, malevolent scientists, and terrifying technological catastrophes? The unpredictable return of EC Comics continues here with the quantum comics event of the millennium! Galaxies will collapse. Space-time will be distorted. And your very will to exist, too, shall be broken… Just remember: it’s all in the name of science!

EC – Cruel Universe (2024) Complete Oni Press Comics Anthology Series includes:

EC – Cruel Universe #1A  (August 2024)
Cover #1A by: Greg Smallwood

“The Champion” 10 pages
Writer: Matt Kindt
Artist: Kano
Letterers: Richard Starkings & Comicraft’s Tyler Smith

A tale of hopelessness as a gladiator enters a ring to kill or die. The fighter is penned in with aliens and dinosaurs as they wait to enter a ring and do violence on each other. Cheering on our various intergalactic peoples, some of which trade holograms of their favorite fighters. A tale that details the life of a space-faring father turned enslaved gladiator and intergalactic superstar.

“Solo Shift” 10 pages
Writer: Corinna Bechko
Artist: Caitlin Yarsky
Letterers: Richard Starkings & Comicraft’s Tyler Smith

A man in deep space all alone investigates an anomaly… an impossible murder in deep space.

“Drink Up” 6 pages
Writer: Chris Condon
Artist: Jonathan Case
Letterers: Richard Starkings & Comicraft’s Tyler Smith

Searching for the Fountain of Youth, a super-rich man attempts to live forever. He seeks an unnatural way to achieve that, but it doesn’t turn out like he expected.

“Priceless” 10 pages
Writer: Ben H. Winters
Artist: Artyom Topilin
Colorist: Brittany Peer
Letterers: Richard Starkings & Comicraft’s Tyler Smith

A man sells his memories at the cost of his soul.

“Shock and Awe!” 1 page
Writer: Sierra Hahn
Letter from the Editor in Chief. 

EC – Cruel Universe #2A  (September 2024)
Cover #2A by: Greg Smallwood

“Organ1c” 6 pages
Writer: Stephanie Phillips
Artist: Riley Rossmo
Colorist: Iñaki Azpiazu
Letterers: Richard Starkings & Comicraft’s Tyler Smith

A story set in the near future, food is no longer an issue thanks to innovations that seemingly means eating humans. Centered around the genius behind free-range food without pesticides, a documentary crew follows him through lush green fields and finally into a butcher area. Naked humans run around him and rush to snatch up an apple and seem relatively simple-minded. The story takes the old adage “you are what you eat” literally with a devilish twist at the end.

“Brilliant… and Deceived!” 2 pages
Writer: Ben H. Winters
Artist: Leomacs
Colorist: Iñaki Azpiazu
Letterers: Richard Starkings & Comicraft’s Tyler Smith

A reanimator tale with a devilish twist. A doctor is attempting to bring his wife back to life, and since she’s dead, what’s the harm in trying?

“And the Profit Said…” 8 pages
Writer: Chris Condon
Artist: Javier Fernández
Colorist: Alessandro Santoro
Letterers: Richard Starkings & Comicraft’s Tyler Smith

A man who has an inoperable tumor that will kill him, but new science is used to take it out and give him possible “blurry vision.” That vision ends up being a spectacular power that they use for profit.

“Ray Gun” 10 pages
Writer: Christopher Cantwell
Artist: David Lapham
Colorist: Nick Filardi
Letterers: Richard Starkings & Comicraft’s Tyler Smith

A cowboy who has lost his grit and ability to ride and given him a second chance. That chance comes by way of aliens, or at least their advanced weaponry.

EC – Cruel Universe #3A  (October 2024)
Cover #3A by: Greg Smallwood

“Automated” 6 pages
Writer: J. Holtham
Artist: Kano
Letterers: Richard Starkings & Comicraft’s Tyler Smith

A dystopian future taken out by A.I., but not how you’d expect. The story reveals how one man’s desire to win and beat everyone destroys society.

“We Drown on Earth” 10 pages
Writer: Zac Thompson
Artist: Dan McDaid
Colorist: Michelle Madsen
Letterers: Richard Starkings & Comicraft’s Tyler Smith

A tanker filled with dangerous chemicals dumps them into the ocean. Eco-horror ensues, when sea creatures come in contact with it, as the tanker and her crew soon discover.

“The Deleted Man” 8 pages
Writer: Ben H. Winters
Artist: Carson Thorn
Letterers: Richard Starkings & Comicraft’s Tyler Smith

A slovenly-looking man wanting his internet history to be deleted employs a specialized company that can do just that. But there are some side effects… he loses parts of himself!

“Behave” 6 pages
Writer: Cullen Bunn
Artist: David Rubín
Letterers: Richard Starkings & Comicraft’s Tyler Smith

A future where angels killed most of humanity. Over the course of the story, we find out what angels are, and it’s a tale of woe because humanity is trying to perfect itself. That is, morally. But how far can society go before it’s means to correct bad behavior goes too far?

EC – Cruel Universe #4A  (November 2024)
Cover #4A by: Greg Smallwood

“By the Book 8 pages
Writer: Matt Bors
Artist: Daniel Irizarri
Colorist: Michelle Madsen
Letterers: Richard Starkings & Comicraft’s Tyler Smith

A war against aliens in American cities. An alien grows among us and decides to become president. This divides the people, especially when aliens come from the stars to populate Columbus, Ohio… leading to extreme loss of life and the horrors of a modern warfare in America.

“Doomsday Particle” 8 pages
Writer: Matt Kindt
Artist: Alison Sampson
Colorist: Jordie Bellaire
Letterers: Richard Starkings & Comicraft’s Tyler Smith

A story about three scientists isolating the “god particle,” which is one step closer to free and clean energy. Two scientists are men, who behave like children around the third female scientist which causes the scientific team to breakup. They claim she’s too emotional, but their child-like teasing adds a creepiness and otherworldly danger to the experiment.

“Peer Review” 8 pages
Writer: Cecil Castellucci
Artist: Andrea Mutti
Colorist: Michael Atiyeh
Letterers: Richard Starkings & Comicraft’s Tyler Smith

Two scientists who have discovered life on a frozen moon in our solar system are transported to an alien get-together. The story turns macabre when the scientists reflect on wanting to carve up the aliens they’re socializing with…

“The Hero of Venus!” 2 pages
Writer: Ben H. Winters
Artist: Kano
Letterers: Richard Starkings & Comicraft’s Tyler Smith

A political tale that explores the desire for our leaders to be good-looking from a science fiction perspective.

EC – Cruel Universe #5A  (December 2024)
Cover #5A by: Greg Smallwood

“Paring Knife” 8 pages
Writer: Corinna Bechko
Artist: Leomacs
Colorist: Alessandro Santoro
Letterers: Richard Starkings & Comicraft’s Tyler Smith

On Mining Colony Zev, the technicians are literally starving to death. A cruel inspection supervisor is sent to make adjustments to the Paring Knife, a device that converts organics into food. After a falling out between the technicians and the cruel inspection supervisor ensues the technicians are treated to a feast… courtesy of the cruel inspection supervisor.

“Ink Spot Test” 10 pages
Writer: Cullen Bunn
Artist: Peter Krause
Colorist: Ellie Wright
Letterers: Richard Starkings & Comicraft’s Tyler Smith

An unethical mental health professional secretly drugs her patients with an experimental drug of her own creation and makes them take a rorschach test… which induces mental trauma. One patient discovers what the mental health professional is doing and gets revenge.

“Billionaire Trust” 8 pages
Writer: Corinna Bechko
Artist: Daniel Irizarri
Colorist: Brittany Peer
Letterers: Richard Starkings & Comicraft’s Tyler Smith

An aging self-made billionaire who desired to make the world a better place, tries to cheat death by going into cryofreeze. Still hoping to change the world for the better when he comes out of cryofreeze, the billionaire is shocked to learn that he is being made accountable for the ruination of the current world.

“A Cruel Ending” 1 page
Writer: Sierra Hahn
Letter from the Editor in Chief.

Comics lot contains: EC Cruel Universe {Complete Cover A Collection} (2024) Issues #1A-5A.  Oni Press (Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group, LLC.)

Comics are bagged & boarded and will be carefully / securely packaged then shipped via USPS Priority Mail to ensure that it arrives to you perfectly and quickly.

All First Printings
Publisher: Oni Press (Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group, LLC.)
Publication Date: 2024
Format per comic: FC, 40/32 pages, Comic, 10.25″ x 6.65″
UPC: 649856007995

Collectible Entertainment note: Comics #1A,2A,3A,4A,5A are in Very Fine + condition.  Beautiful Set!  Please See Scans!!  A must have for any serious EC Comics and/or Science Fiction collector / enthusiast.  A fun & entertaining read.  Very Highly Recommended.

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