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I found this very good value for money and a very enjoyable piece of light reading. The Comics start from the 1940's to present. Not every comic is a masterpiece, but the nice thing is that they are relatively short, so for every duff one there are three to four good ones. The best ones to me are the 1950' to 1970's ones as they have added nostalgia value ( used to collect "pocket chiller library" and "Dracula Lives" many moons ago) and the black and white artwork is nice and atmospheric. Readin...
I liked this one. It is a pretty big collection of old comic books from the mid-40s to today. Though they are in black and white, the quality is still good. The stories are an interesting blend of monsters, horror, scary situations, and things reminiscent of an episode from "The Twilight Zone." TO be honest, as a reader today, I did find it kind of amusing to see what some people considered "shocking" back then. They worried kids would go insane if they read some of those comics. Then again, I p...
An excellent collection of horror comics from the 1930s to the modern era. While the quality of the book does leave much to be desired, given that it is out of print as of 2018 and cheap copies are quite easy to come by, if you can find it for a good price. Do so and enjoy some cheap chills especially as we're nearing Halloween
Been chipping away at this anthology for a few years now. While not all great, of the 50 or so there are some real gems. Recommended for any fan of pulp horror or classic comics.
Quite hit and miss for my liking.
Super awesome-ness. Horror comics from a wide span of a century. Must have for horror comic fans.
Yes, the book should have been bigger. Yes, it should have been in color. The book has flaws, but man... those comics were fantastic! This book shows the progression (or regression) of comics from the awesome period of 1940s - 1954 to today. The biggest impression it leaves on me is how the paranoia over communism in the 1950s really murdered the world of the horror comic. It did rise from the grave, but, as Stephen King's character Jud Crandall said in Pet Cemetery, "Sometimes dead is better."
This is another of those 500+ page book collections of horror comic stories reprinted in black and white. The stories are mostly from publishers other than Marvel and DC and, in my opinion, many of them have more horror value than the EC stories that I have read.The book also examines these comics over time and has some historical analysis of the comics of certain years.My main criticism is not the fault of the book itself, but of a few of the stories chosen, in that the printing of the dialogu
So this is a huge collection of comics. It certainly has some flaws. Let's get the elephant out of the room first of all - the decision to print this in the Standard Mammoth Book format size is a mistake, although I'm sure it kept the price down. It wouldn't be so bad if all the comics were being shot from their original artwork, sans color, but that's a rough expectation for some of the older stories represented here. So, along with the small page size, you get stories shot from the colored, ne...
WOW! This thing is brimming with weirdness. Fun look at pulps you'd never see otherwise. I try to read one a night before going to sleep... muhahah.
When I strated this book I wasn't impressed. It began with older comics that were very dated. As I went through the book though I found some of the stories entertaining and still others not as much. What really caught me was a story I read originally in Heavy Metal that was drawn and written in a cheap horror comic book. I liked Heavy Metal's version better. It was about a woman who gets raped by some wretch her husband brings in off the street. She births a throng of what looks like sperm gnome...
