History of Horror Comics; Part One

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Great post! Horror is one of my favourite genres and recently i'm in a bit of an EC kick, buying some reprints of the nineties, even gave my teacher a reprint of Frontline Combat 1 as a gift. The professionalism of artists like Wally Wood, Bernard Kringstein (author of the short comic Master Race, an absolute classic and teacher of a young Frank Miller in the NY School of Visual Arts), Jack Davis, Johnny Craig and many more are still impressive and relevant to this day. I always have a soft spot for any George Evans, Graham Ingels (a proto Bernie Wrightson) and of course the two or three pieces Alex Toth did with Kurtzman at EC, a masterclass of design, composition and nuance in graphic cartooning.

It's a shame that the editor of Archie Comics at the time was one of the people pushing to keep EC out of bussiness, and the witch-hunt with the burning of the comics are disturbing images of the past, proper of a time filled with paranoia and distrust. I've seen some people in social media calling to burn comics or books, it's sad but at the end of the day, everything come back in a way or another.