Favourite Comics Moments #2 - Master Race

The word "art" is thrown about willy (and indeed nilly) these days, and no less when discussing comics than any other form of endeavour. It is encouraging, however, when one comes across a piece of work that truely deserves that label.

Master Race was a story published in 1955, in the first edition of EC Comics' Impact! and illustrated by the peerless Bernard Krigstein. It deals with the guilt of a concentration camp officer and has a depth and sureness of touch that, even more than 50 years later, still stands head and shoulders above most other published comics stories. Krigstein spent only a few years in comics; his best work was done with EC, and his best EC work is in this story, an important and influential example of how to tell a story using both words and pictures.