4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Four Color 1186

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Four Color #1186 Universal
Grade: 9.4
Page Quality: OFF-WHITE
Certification #: 0911192016
Owner: 4GEMWORKS

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: 4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Date Added: 11/5/2008
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

Yak Yak 1961

All Cover Art, Interior Script and artwork: Jack Davis

This is the second best of seven issues graded to date. A single 9.6 tops the census. 05/13. I originally bought this graded, as is, from Heritage Auctions.

Table of Contents
1. 0. Yak Yak A Pathology of Humor
2. 1. The Sociables Prefer Yak Yak
3. 2. Yak Yak
4. 3. The Touchables
5. 4. A Yak Yak
6. 5. How To Bat 400!
7. 6. A Yak Yak
8. 7. Scrounging the World for Recipes
9. 8. A Yak Yak
10. 9. A Yak Yak Prediction
11. 10. How To Win Friends
12. 11. A Yak Yak
13. 12. Drama Vs. Realism
14. 13. Hysterical Historical Quizzical Quiz
15. 14. Yak Yak Nursery Rhymes Illustrated
16. 15. A Yak Yak A single page cartoon variant that was on the back cover of some copies of this issue.
17. 16 Twinkles cereal AD back version. Also the back cover of this copy.

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Davis was a great cartoonist and wrote many comics including some great EC horror stuff as wel as MAD Magazine. This was not such hot stuff, comparatively speaking. Wikipedia provides a little extra detail on Jack Davis:
Comic strips and comic books [edit]
In 1949, he illustrated a Coca-Cola training manual, a job that gave him enough cash to buy a car and drive to New York. Attending the Art Students League of New York, he found work with the Herald Tribune Syndicate as an inker on Leslie Charteris's The Saint comic strip, drawn by Mike Roy in 1949-50. His own humor strip, Beauregard, with gags in a Civil War setting, was carried briefly by the McClure Syndicate. After rejections from several comic book publishers, he began freelancing for William Gaines' EC Comics in 1950, contributing to Tales from the Crypt, The Haunt of Fear, Frontline Combat, Two-Fisted Tales, The Vault of Horror, Piracy, Incredible Science Fiction, Crime Suspenstories, Shock Suspenstories and Terror Illustrated.
Davis was particularly noted for his depiction of the Crypt-Keeper in the horror comics, revamping the character's appearance from the more simplistic Al Feldstein version to a tougher, craggier, mangier man with hairy warts, salivating mouth and oversized hands and feet, who usually didn't wear shoes. Among the classic horror tales he illustrated were "Foul Play" which was cited in Dr. Fredric Wertham's book Seduction of the Innocent for its depiction of "a comic book baseball game". Others, like "Tain't The Meat, It's The Humanity", "Death Of Some Salesman", "Fare Tonight Followed By Increasing Clottiness", "Tight Grip" and "Lower Berth" were Crypt-Keeper classics. He did the covers for every issue of Crypt from issue #29 to #46. In his work for Harvey Kurtzman's war books he tackled a variety of subjects and had a particular affinity for depicting American Civil War stories. He also did many covers for Frontline Combat, Two-Fisted Tales and Incredible Science Fiction as well. The editors, William M. Gaines, Albert B. Feldstein and Harvey Kurtzman have said he was the fastest artist they had in those days, completely penciling and inking three pages a day at times, or more. His use of the brush to create depth and mood was unique and memorable. His wrinkled clothing, scratchy lines and multi-layered layouts were so popular in the 1950s, that other artists at rival companies began copying the style—notably, Howard Nostrand in Harvey's horror comics.[5] In the late 1950s, Davis drew Western stories for Atlas Comics. His 1963 work on the Rawhide Kid (#33-35) was his last for non-humor comic books.
His style of wild, free-flowing brushwork and wacky characters made him a perfect choice when Harvey Kurtzman launched Mad as a zany, satirical EC comic book in 1952. He appeared in most of the first 30 issues of Mad, all 12 issues of Panic and even some work in Cracked. Davis contributed to other Kurtzman magazines—Trump, Humbug and Help!—eventually expanding into illustrations for record jackets, movie posters, books and magazines, including Time and TV Guide. In 1961, he wrote, drew, and edited his own comic book, Yak Yak, for Dell Comics. In 1965, he illustrated Meet The North American Indians by Elizabeth Payne, published by Random House as part of their children's Step Up Books line. (ISBN 0-394-80060-5). He returned as a regular contributor to Mad magazine in the late 1960s and appeared in nearly every issue after that for decades. He also drew many covers for the magazine, especially in the 1970s.[1]
Davis also had a regular comic strip feature in Pro Quarterback magazine in the early 1970s entitled Superfan, which was written by his Mad cohort, Nick Meglin.[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Davis_(cartoonist)
 
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