Zombies from the chilling archives of horror comics. The most interesting time travel stories in comics. Chilling archives of horror comics penguin random house. I have always loved zombies ever since i was a little kid. Lt foster has an iconic eye patch couldnt be better. In the 1950s there was public outcry against crime and horror comics. Winner of over thirty game of the year awards, plants vs. Zombies have crept through comics since long before the. This helped end the popular line of crime and horror books from ec, which recently had been drubbed in a u.
This was in shermans possession when the delorean time machine. The book intersperses brief artist biographies, letter pages and house ads. The insane history of how american paranoia ruined and censored comic books by alex abadsantos updated mar, 2015, 1. This webpage presents part 2, describing the national pressure to. Scary comics ec comics horror comics horror films book cover art comic book covers comic book characters comic books best holiday movies please stand by zombies, exploding heads, creepycrawlies. Zombies is now determined to shuffle onto allages bookshelves to tickle funny bones and thrill. I grew up on ec comics, is a phrase romero has uttered in plenty of interviews. I also love the art of vintage comics, although in this one the way colour has been used makes some frames a bit smudgy. David hajdu has written biographies of music greats billy. The chilling archives of horror comics zombies panel at comiccon international in san diego came on the final day of the event, appropriately scheduled after the ccas sunday devotional and christian comics panel in room 32ab.
After the comic book industry imploded during the 1950s in the wake of the hysteria caused by dr. In the early 1950s, ec comics took the liberty of adapting bradburys story initially, without permission or credit to bradbury into a sevenpage comic illustrated by the great al williamson. Way back in 1954, the american comic book industry was on the brink of extinction. Waca ben dunn, joe wight there is a fate worse than death. The best of 75 years of ec comics read now checkout preordered manage preorders unavailable for purchase in your credit card on file lists an address in. Classic comic book cover mystery men comics 1200 by wingsdomain art and photography classic comic book cover mystery men comics is a digitally remastered public domain classic comic book cover professionally enhanced in a. In a 2008 talk with the av club, he added, i always loved horror. Focusing on precomics code 1950s horror comics, the panel was led by eisner awardwinning comics historian and coeditor of yoe books, craig yoe, and steve. The shortlived comic book publisher that helped give birth to the. Marvel zombies is set in an alternate universe where the worlds superhero population has been infected with a virus which turned them into zombies. Ec s glory and gory years were 19501955, when it mutated from educational comics to entertaining comics, stopped printing tame titles like saddle romances and tiny tot and shifted to twofisted tales and the vault of horror. The cryptkeeper also served as the host of ecs 3d comic book, three. In the story, three beings known as the mayhemaniacs, composed of the morgue minder, the old hag, and the tomb tender, interact with superheroes of the 1940s on new years eve of 1950, and take them to different realms.
Lansdale, don mcgregor, husband and wife team james romberger and. In fact, they are among the older and more desirable comics on the market. The chilling archives of horror comics zombies panel at. We specialize in marvel and dc, but carry dark horse, and many others as well. Starting in 2003 by writer robert kirkman and artist tony moore, with art duties later transferring to charlie adlard, the walking dead tells the story of rick grimes during the zombie apocalypse. A perfect escape, when i can only afford to take short breaks at a time from studying. Ace comics was the banner under which pulp magazine publisher aaron a. Underground comix project gutenberg selfpublishing. Unfortunately comic books took the brunt, while ec and a few other companies were the express targets and looking down the barrel. Get the best deals on ec golden age comics 1938 1955 when you shop the largest online selection at. The walking dead by robert kirkman, terry moore, charlie adlard. The ec horror library of the 1950s comic books from nostalgia. The insane history of how american paranoia ruined and. The first three issues of the series were titled the crypt of terror.
Although zombies were banned in comics for almost two decades, undead monsters have roamed in the pages of comics since at least the late 1940s. Part of the acclaimed chilling archives of horror comics. The most fiendish weapon of all is unleashed by hitlers maddest scientists. Art book read now checkout preordered manage preorders unavailable for purchase in your credit card on file lists an address in. Underground comix are small press or selfpublished comic books which are often socially relevant or satirical in nature.
I used to sneak into the theatre just to catch the latest goriest zombie flick. The comics, including tales from the crypt, vault of horror and weird science, featured avenging undead in the gothic tradition quite regularly, including adaptations of lovecrafts stories, which included in the vault, cool air and herbert west reanimator. It was removed from this site for a couple of years due to a reprint sale, but its back now. You know, the old ec comic books, the ones that got banned by the. Avenging zombies would feature prominently in the early 1950s ec comics, which george a. They were most popular in the united states between 1968 and 1975, and in the united kingdom. Ec uncertified modern age comics 1992now for sale ebay. Tales from the crypt was a bimonthly horror comic anthology series published by ec comics from 1950 to 1955, producing 27 issues. As fans of the television show know, rick was a deputy injured on the job and was.
They differ from mainstream comics in depicting content forbidden to mainstream publications by the comics code authority, including explicit drug use, sexuality and violence. This is an extremely nice copy of nostalgia presss 1971 release, ec horror comics of the 1950s. The comics code authority cca was formed in 1954 by the comics magazine association of america as an alternative to government regulation. Tales from the crypt was an american bimonthly horror comic anthology series published by. Which of the precode horror comics are the most collected today. Find out what the 10c editions from the 1950s of ec comics are worth today. The graphic violence that this cover portrays has all the hallmarks of a 1950s book, but it was created a decade earlier. It was first published in the 1950s by ec comics along with its sister horror titles, the vault of horror and the hunt of fear. The rise and fall of ec comics in the 1950s by adam blatner posted 06182009 this is based on a talk given on 61209 to the summer session of the senior university georgetown.
In this new, skewed world, axes were rarely used to chop wood, and meat grinders werent for shredding beef. Yet romero has happily admitted to one inspiration over and over. Zombies refused to stay dead after 1950s ban in comics. The zombie super heroes largely retain their intellect and personality, although they are consistently driven by the hunger for human flesh. Most notably, an issue of ec comics crime suspenstories that depicted a man holding a womans dismembered head on the cover played a central role in the hearings held by the senate subcommittee on juvenile delinquency. When i was a kid in the 1960s, most of the comics i. The horror boom of the early 1950s led to dozens of publishers getting on board. All three of ec comics horror hosts the ghoulunatics appear in the issue, drawn by rick parker artist of marvelmtvs beavis and butthead comic book. Contributors to subsequent issues have included wellknown horror talents joe r.
The cca allowed the comic publishers to selfregulate the content of comic books in the united states. A comic book is a periodical that contains a series of panels in the form of a narrative. The 2nd comic has different art nice and highly detailed by not shaded. This landmark issue, the first comic to present allnew material, saw the first appearance of the man of steel, superman. This book reprints the first 3 issues of craig yoes haunted horror comic book, in their entirety. Idw publishing and yoe books recently released zombies, a hardcover collection of 1950s horror comics hand picked by yoe and banes.
This is a hardcover book, oversized 10 x 14, full color. Tales from the crypt 1950 comic read tales from the. Ec fanaddicts ron barlow and bhob stewart produced the deluxe, oversize, fullcolor collection the ec horror library of the 1950s for nostalgia press in 1971, making it one of the first reprint editions of classic comic book stories to appear in us book stores. The same month in which adventures into the unknown premiered, the comic book company ec, which would become the most prominent horrorcomics publisher of the 1950s, published its first horror story, zombie terror, by the then relatively unknown writer and. Why my mother threw out my comic books part 2 of 3 webages. Horror comics from the early 1950s that the senate and dogooders reviled. The book is already sold out on the distributor level, and is the duos third horror collection through idw, including bob powells terror and dick briefers frankenstein. To placate their critics, most of americas major comic book publishers joined together to create an organization that would censor their own comics. Even seasoned collectors may have problems attaining comics from this era. And as they face a new type of enemy, it becomes clearer than. Faced with the very real threat of government regulation, top. Frederick werthams book seduction of the innocent and, just as important, a shakeup in the distribution companies who sold comic books and pulp magazines in america, most of. Marvel zombies reading order comic book reading orders.
In 1950, ec publisher gaines and his editor al feldstein discovered they. Although zombies were banned in comics for almost two decades, undead. Tales from space was a comic book read by sherman peabody in 1955 according to the cover blurb, tales from space featured shocking sciencefiction stories. The first horror comic from ec later known for horror titles like tales. Zombies games, and now from dark horse comics the tranzit crew find themselves in an unfamiliar location, scattered and disoriented. Wyn and his wife rose wyn produced comic books between 1940 and the end of 1956. Like tales from the crypt, one of my favourite tv shows and which is based on the 1950s ec comics series, these stories are ridiculously campy but so much fun. Lovingly restored, this striking, fullcolor tome showcases terrifying stories of dead walking and ghouls stalking, drawn by alex toth, rudy palais, bernard baily, and many more macabre masters. However, rather than aiming for straight adaptations, sikoryak uses the style and characters of specific classic comics for each retelling, e. Tales from the crypt comics 1950 1955 the most famous and notorious horror comic book series in history. One particular issue, 8 aug 54, featured a complete story called space zombies from pluto which was apparently about hostile aliens coming to earth from pluto. Feldstein, a pioneer in his field, is known for introducing horror comics to the public in the 1950s. Zombies have crept through comics since long before the walking. A lot of the hysteria around comics in the 1950s stemmed from the graphic content found in several horror and crime books at the time.
In other words, it was a comic about comics, and in its fourth chapter, ec comics is addressed. David hajdu examines the great comic book panic of the 1950s. The chilling horror comics history of the 1950s cbr. An illustrated edition of the fantasy classic by j. God bless craig yoe for compiling this book and all the others in the. In the mid1950s, the powerful industry organization the comics code authority specifically banned zombies, as well as vampires and werewolves, from the pages of comic books. So i picked up all in color for a dime and the comicbook book, both edited by. Tolkien is a recreation by artist david wenzel, with writers chuck dixon and sean deming.
Zombies vs cheerleaders geektacular 2020 new preorder gemini rose cover. In part 1, the history of comics from 1890s through around 1949 is summarized briefly. Apr 21, 2020 while the walking dead is one of the most successful zombie comic books of recent years, its hardly the first. Along with its sister titles, the haunt of fear and the vault. Most of the nonec horror comics of the 50s were pure dreck. Entertaining comics, more commonly known as ec comics, was an american publisher of comic books specializing in horror fiction, crime fiction, satire, military fiction and science fiction from the. If you like these things, buy this book and rot your. Senate hearing and the book seduction of the innocent by. The shortlived comic book publisher that helped give.