Pg 9 art
Published pg 9
Pg 10 art
Pg 10 published page
Location: My Complete Stories
Artists:
Howard Chaykin
(Penciller)
,
Bill Draut
(Inker)
,
Len Wein
(Writer)
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A Len Wien story! Sci-fi during this time period was a lot of downbeat cold war nuclear fear for our futures reflecting the mood of the country after all the tumult of the times. Great that it has a simple premise and a great payoff that tells us something about human nature. The way it is drawn and laid out is amazing. Draut normall has a heavier line for horror, but works lighter for this more intimate story.
Stories like this one stuck with me as well. In fact, I think it was about this time that I started having dreams that the missiles were flying and I (or my family and I) would have rush to a fallout shelter (there was one, clearly marked, in the basemen of Belk's, a nearby department store from back in the day, so it was often the place I/we were trying to go). Eventually, those dreams stopped, and I don't miss them, but I remember them more vividly than I do the dream I had this morning.
https://youtu.be/LcXA0N-jVQ4
Link to my dramatic reading of this page.