Two For The Price of One - John Stanley

"Two for the Price of One" follows Walter, a cad, and his wife, Paula. Stanley methodically takes his time setting up the story, as Walter prepares an elaborate ruse that slowly goes terribly wrong. As with all of his work, Stanley's characters, no matter how cartoony, have an interior life -- Paula seems at first cruel but then vulnerable, and Walter's mistress seems genuinely desperate.

This is not just an eight-page morality play, like so many other horror comics; Stanley makes his reader actually care about the characters.

John Stanley (1914 - 1993)

John Stanley was an American cartoonist and comic book writer, best known for writing Little Lulu comic book stories from 1945 to 1959. While mostly known for scripting, Stanley also drew many of his stories, including the earliest issues of Little Lulu and its Tubby spinoff series. His specialty was humorous stories, both with licensed characters and those of his own creation. 

Increasingly dissatisfied with his treatment by his publishers, Stanley left comics for good in 1971. In the 1970s and 1980s he worked first for a silkscreen company and then in advertising before his eventual retirement. He left behind an enormous and multifaceted legacy in comics that is just now being rediscovered.


Read here one of the rarest comics created by John Stanley.

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Two for The Price of One

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