Ghastly Terror!: The Horrible Story of the Horror Comics

by Sennitt, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9781900486071
• ISBN10: 1900486075
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Scb Distributors

Summary

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! is an entertaining examination of this most persecuted and popular of comic genres.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	4	(3)
Introduction	7	(4)
Precode Horrors: 1946-1959
Into The Abyss...!	11	(41)
Top 20 Most Gratuitous Precode
Horror Comics Covers!	52	(2)
Scapegoats	54	(10)
B&W Horrors: 1964-1975
Comics To Give You The Creeps!	64	(50)
Warren: The Covers	114	(2)
Shoddy Duplicates	116	(13)
The Horror-Mood	129	(40)
New Wave Horrors: 1969-Present
Bronze Age Silver Bullets!	169	(12)
The 10 Best Non-Series' Bronze-Age
`Monster Mag' Tales	181	(1)
Underground Currents	182	(15)
Afterword	197	(2)
Appendix I An A-Z of Precode Horror Comic Publishers	199	(14)
Appendix II Comics Magazine Association of America Comics Code, 1954	213	(2)
Appendix III The Top 10 Greatest Horror Comics Ever!	215	(1)
Selected Mail Order Sources	216	(1)
Selected Bibliography	216	(1)
Picture Credits	217