GHASTLY TERROR!: THE HORRIBLE STORY OF THE HORROR COMICS by STEPHEN SENNITT
Critical Vision / Headpress. 1999.
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Synopsis: In the 1950s horror comics flourished to the extent that fifty or more different titles could be published in a single month. Later these comics were effectively banned, indicted as a cause of juvenile delinquency'. Prurient imagery incorporating scantily clad women, limb-chopping and trauma to the eye', was often outlawed.
Tracing their development from the grotesque visions of the pre-code' horrors through to the relative sophistication of b&w titles in the sixties and seventies, Ghastly Terror! takes the reader into a dank and sinister world to savour the rotting history of TALES FROM THE TOMB, DARK MYSTERIES, WEIRD TERROR, VAULT OF HORROR, WORLDS OF FEAR, WEB OF EVIL, TALES OF VOODOO, PSYCHO, SCREAM, CREEPY, TWISTED TALES, TABOO and countless other comic titles!
$19.95 cover price. Trade Paperback.
Handling / wear on cover. Slight dents, creasing on cover.