Also contributing to the project at Cochran's West Plains office were operations manager Angela Meyer and production artist Chris Rock. Allen Jamison and Jamison Services had previously done coloring for the DC Archives. The original coloring by EC's colorist Marie Severin was used as a guide for digital recoloring by Jamison Services, a color separation company in West Plains, Missouri, the hometown of publisher Cochran. Įach book reprints six issues for a total of 24 stories. These are slightly smaller hardcover books (smaller than the EC Library volumes but larger than the original ten-cent comic books), and because of increased demand and the availability of cheaper color printing in China, the EC Archives books were full color, with new color in an infinite palette now being possible with the advances in technology. On January 11, 2011, Cochran looked back on the project, noting the differences between his earlier EC Library and the later EC Archives:Ī few years ago, with the support and encouragement of Steve Geppi and with the permission of the Gaines Estate, I started on a new format: the EC Archives. Similar to the DC Archives and Marvel Masterworks series, the EC Archives superseded Cochran's original annotated EC Library (of black-and-white stories) by reprinting sequential compilations of EC titles in a full-color, hardback archival format with new annotations. In 2006, Gemstone began producing a more durable series of hardback reprint collections designed by Michael Kronenberg.
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