Ghastly Terror!: The Horrible Story of the Horror Comics

By Stephen Sennitt

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1900486075
• ISBN13: 9781900486071
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Critical Vision
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.5" x 6.5"