his work for ec comics in the early 1950s included powerful covers and crime stories for "crime suspenstories" and memorable world war i aviation covers and stories for "aces high". he was a semi-regular contributor to "the haunt of fear", "tales from the crypt", "vault of horror", "frontline combat", "two-fisted tales" and "shock suspenstories" (the latter of which also had three covers by evans). evans' shocking cover for "crime suspenstories" #23 was held up at the senate hearings on juvenile delinquency in 1954, among many other comic book covers from a variety of publishers. he stayed with ec through their new direction and picto-fiction experiments, contributing to "m.d.", "impact", "piracy", "terror illustrated", "crime illustrated" and "shock illustrated", among others. after ec, he contributed to gilberton's "classics illustrated", dell and gold key. his books for "classics illustrated" included "romeo and juliet" (no. 134, september 1956); "lord jim" (no. 136, january 1957); "the little savage" (no. 137, march 1957); "in the reign of terror" (no. 139, july 1957); "the crisis" (no. 145, july 1958); "the buccaneer" (no. 148, january 1959); "the three musketeers" (no. 1, revised, may 1959); "the hunchback of notre dame" (no. 18, revised, with reed crandall, fall 1960); "oliver twist" (no. 23, revised, with reed crandall, fall 1961); "julius caesar" (no. 68, revised, with reed crandall, 1962); and "in freedom's cause" (no. 168, with reed crandall, 1962; published uk 1963; published us 1969).