Pre Code Classic Thing Hardcover Volume 1

(W) Lawrence Watt-Evans (A) Dick Giordano & Various. The Thing! began in 1952 and lasted seventeen issues, featuring the Thing (never seen clearly) as a narrator. Although there was an obvious E.C. influence, the stories got wilder than anything the tightly-controlled E.C. crew ever produced, and features early work by a pre-Spider-Man Steve Ditko. Collects issues #1-9.