Number 855

V-Vampires!

Heritage Auctions offered the original art for the classic EC 3-D reworking of the original version of "V-Vampires" in Mad #3. Here's some of what Heritage said about the story:

Wally Wood Three Dimensional EC Classics "V-Vampires" page 5 Original Art (EC, 1954). For EC's debut into the 3-D craze, four fan-favorite yarns, one from each of the titles, Mad, Weird Science, Frontline Combat, and Crime SuspenStories, were retold in this one-shot, published in the Spring of 1954 . . . The art is rendered on Craftint paper and four pieces of acetate, each piece having art and consecutively numbered pages. The five pieces were then stacked together, with eye-popping results. The 3-D effect is striking, and then there's added attraction of the voluptuous Godiva-- a Wood specialty.

This is the kind of thing that makes me glad to be a comics fan, an EC fan, a Kurtzman fan, a Wood fan...what else do I need to say?