Doctor of Horror and Other Stories

Doctor Of Horror and Other Stories by Graham Ingels
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Doctor of Horror and Other Stories collects Graham Ingels' earliest EC comics work.

With stories written by Al Feldstein, Gardner Fox, Ray Bradbury, and Edgar Allan Poe, Doctor of Horror shows Graham Ingels art when it was still in its figurative diapers. The first few stories are westerns and crime comics, nothing fancy storywise but Ingels' art was up for the task.

The title story, Doctor of Horror, is where the fun begins. From there, it's a parade of living dead, vampires, double crossing husbands, double crossing wives, murderous relatives, grave robbers, freak shows, parasitic twins, and all the other stuff that led other publishers to form the Comics Code and run EC out of business.

While I wouldn't say any of the stories were bad, the westerns could have been clipped. Some of the stories felt like trial runs of better stories done by other EC artists or even Ingels himself. The world of EC comics sure has a lot of crooked undertakers in it.

Ghastly Graham lived up to his name in a lot of these tales. Like I've said before, the man knows his way around a rotting corpse. While it wasn't as good as Grave Business and Other Stories, Doctor of Horror is a fun collection of Graham Ingels' EC work and a look at a great artist in his early years. 3.5 out of 5 stars.




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