Ghastly Terror!: The Horrible Story of the Horror Comics (Primal-Spinal Comix History)
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Book Details
Author(s)Stephen Sennitt
PublisherCritical Vision
ISBN / ASIN1900486075
ISBN-139781900486071
Sales Rank1,022,277
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
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.


