Moment of impact

What's not to love on this masterpiece of illustration by George Evans for Shock SuspenStories? The dramatic action, the use of light and shadows to heighten the mood, the coloring, the bound man's left foot breaking the text box at lower left? Add to that the perfect logo and the E.C. pedigree, and you have yet one more jaw-dropping cover in a long line of classics.

Shock SuspenStories - No. 16, September 1954 issue.

Finely-rendered and high impact cover art by George Evans.