Modern Love #2 Values

Title: I Craved Excitement!

Characters: Bill Davis (pilot); Dorothy 'Dotty' Doran; Al Davis (mechanic)

Synopsis: A love triangle has two brothers desiring the same woman. When Bill enlists for the armed services, Al sees his chance to move in and eventually asks Dotty to marry him, and she agrees. But when Al loses his job, the wedding is put off until another job can be found. When Al finally gets a job, he is rarely around to see Dotty, and as days and months drag on, Dotty gets more resentful of Al being away. Then Bill comes home and the spark is rekindled, leaving Al in the lurch.......or so it seems.

Pages: 10.000

Script: Dorothy Doran (story); Al Feldstein (adaptation)

Pencils: Johnny Craig; Al Feldstein [as F. C. Al Jon] (signed)

Inks: Johnny Craig; Al Feldstein [as F. C. Al Jon] (signed)

Letters: Jim Wroten

Notes: Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion. Feldstein fictionalized the names of all people in this story in his adaptation, as originally told by the fictionally named Dorothy Doran. Parts of the story are told in flashback. Dissatisfied with Craig's slow output of work, editor Feldstein tried a short-lived experiment where he and Craig teamed up on some stories, using the pen name of "F.C. Aljon" (derived from the initials of their last names and compounded first syllables of their first names). In an interview in 1983 with John Benson, Feldstein, speaking of these stories, said "I penciled and John would ink it. He would straighten out my lousy drawing." But the stories themselves cast some doubt on such a precise division of labor. Thommy Burns, in Fantagraphics "The Woman Who Loved Life and Other Stories (October 2019), states that Feldstein is the dominate artist here, although Craig is evident in most of the faces in profile throughout the story.