By various artists,John Howells

we all know the tale. within the mid-1950s, a pop psychologist, including outraged mom and dad and politically influenced Congressmen, sought to place an finish to horror comics and succeeded in bringing a few self-governing censorship physique which, almost in a single day, placed an finish to the offensive EC comics and placed many publishers of horror comics into bankruptcy. yet there’s extra to the tale. Horror comics have been rather collateral harm within the battle opposed to comedian books within the Fifties, and the genuine aim used to be crime comics. in comparison to the films of that decade, they have been way more specific and grotesque, so it's thoroughly comprehensible that they might come lower than fireplace. This quantity includes the very best of those notorious crime comics from the overdue Forties throughout the mid Nineteen Fifties. They have been surprising, they have been wicked, and so they have been like not anything that any one had ever visible prior to or since.

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