#02 Divorce

#02 Divorce
EC Comics June 1955
Beautiful and very dramatic cover by master E.C. artist Jack Davis.
Cover by Jack Davis. Stories by Al Feldstein and Carl Wessler. Art by Graham Ingels, Jack Davis, Joe Orlando, and Reed Crandall. One of EC Comics’ late New Direction titles, a response to the new Comics Code, featuring slice-of-life stories. A poor tailor struggles to create a suit for an old man’s special occasion, with art by Graham Ingels. A woman remembers her husband, a doctor who tended to the poor, in a tale with art by Joe Orlando. A boy has a close-up view of his parents’ failed marriage, in a story by Jack Davis. First issue with the Comics Code seal, but it had to delete a weapon from a character’s hand on the cover to get that approval. Mother Knows Best; Divorce; The Suit; The Star ; Paid in Full; The Good Samaritan. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.