Home To Stay! The Complete Ray Bradbury EC Stories
Various writers and artists
Fantagraphics 2022
Hb, 204pp, £75, ISBN 9781683966562
One of the constant questions that plagues writers is: what do you do if you find someone ripping off your work?
If you are Ray Bradbury, and the plagiarist is EC Comics, you send them a good natured letter asking where your royalty cheque is and suggest that it might work to everyone’s advantage to collaborate. Caught fair and square (publisher Bill Gaines admitted: “We swiped his stories, and he caught us.”), EC and Bradbury began a mutually beneficial relationship which saw many of Bradbury’s stories adapted in EC’s
