Our premiere post is an overview (with a familiar title) about the rise and fall of EC's horror comics line!
(Note: click on the pages to enlarge them!)
(The final page of the article is a two-column half-page.
Again, click on the art to enlarge)
Remember, in the 1970s, there was no internet, so no way to learn about the history of comics from the Golden Age to the 1970s except though reference books.
And while there were a few non-fiction books about comics out there like All in Color for a Dime and The Great Comic Book Heroes, there were none about horror comics (unlike the kool book from the 1990s advertised below)!
Note; There was an oversized (and expensive) 1971 comic reprint hardcover officially-called EC Horror Library of the 1950s, but better known for the title on the cover...
...which had a much too-brief historical text feature before the wonderfully-gory reprints!
So for Baby Boomers born after EC ended their color comics in the mid-1950s, this bi-weekly newspaper was their introduction to the joys of EC!
BTW, Monster Times sold it through their mail-order department.
Note the price, at a time when comics were 15¢ and the average paperback was 95¢!
And while there were a few non-fiction books about comics out there like All in Color for a Dime and The Great Comic Book Heroes, there were none about horror comics (unlike the kool book from the 1990s advertised below)!
Note; There was an oversized (and expensive) 1971 comic reprint hardcover officially-called EC Horror Library of the 1950s, but better known for the title on the cover...
So for Baby Boomers born after EC ended their color comics in the mid-1950s, this bi-weekly newspaper was their introduction to the joys of EC!
BTW, Monster Times sold it through their mail-order department.
Note the price, at a time when comics were 15¢ and the average paperback was 95¢!
(And, yes, click on the art to enlarge it!)
Next Week: A demonic double-feature of "Here Come Da Shrink: Spawn of Dr Wertham", about the MD who wrote Seduction of the Innocent, and "Introducin' the Gruesome Threesome" about the Crypt-Keeper, Old Witch, and Vault-Keeper by comic writer and historian Mark Evanier.
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Absolutely facinating! Adding the book to my Amazon wishlist too!
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