About the item: 

Signed by hand by EC comics/MAD Magazine artist Jack Davis, this card was released in the 1993 Cardz Tales from the Crypt trading card set.  Most of the set featured images from the popular Television series, but there were several included in the set that featured some of EC’s iconic horror covers from the 1950’s. This particular card features one of Jack Davis’ classics. The card is in nm/mint condition and will be shipped with the utmost care. Please note- the signature is real. It is the actual, hand-signed signature of Davis. It is not a pre-printed image on the card.

About the artist:

Jack Davis (1924 - 2016)  was one of the most prolific and popular of EC's illustrators during the 1950s. His comic credits include not only iconic horror and sci-fi comics like Tales from the Crypt and Incredible Science Fiction, but also EC's war and crime comics plus other series like Rawhide Kid, Yak Yak, the Mark Trail comic strip, and Leslie Charteris's The Saint comics.  His unique and instantly recognizable humorous style is perhaps most famously seared into pop culture's collective imagination thanks to his work for Mad Magazine, Panic, and Cracked.

Outside of comics, Davis' career includes a host of impressive contributions to magazine publications and advertising, including work for clients such as America Online, Arista Records, AT&T, BellSouth, Capital Cities/ABC, Ciba-Geigy, Coca-Cola, Columbia Records, DreamWorks, Entertainment Weekly, ESPN, Ford, Golf Digest, Indianapolis Speedway, Kraft, MCI, Mennen, Michelob, NBC, NERF, Nestlé, Newsweek, Paramount Pictures, Parker Brothers, Pepsi, Procter & Gamble, Purina, Reader's Digest, Spalding, Sports Illustrated, Topps, Toyota, TV Guide, the U.S. Postal Service, USA Networks, The Varsity drive-in in Atlanta, Georgia and Warner Brothers.

Inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2003, Davis has also received the National Cartoonists Society's Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award as well as their Advertising and Reuben awards. He was a finalist for inclusion in the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1990, 1991, and 1992 and, at one time, was the highest-paid illustrator in the world.  The sheer breadth and scope of his work have cemented his place as one of the top artistic talents of the 20th century.

Certificate of Authenticity/Provenance:

Excepting pack-pulled autograph trading cards, CGC Signature Series, signed Sideshow prints, and like collectibles, all autographed items Vault Collectibles sells were personally witnessed, by myself, being signed by the writer, artist, or celebrity in question.  No third party is involved.  Further, art sketches - and most published original art I sell - were obtained directly from the artist themselves.  


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J. Brian O’Bryant

VaultCollectibles

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