ST103 History of Horror Comics
EC and the horror boom
Tales from the Crypt, the Vault, the Haunt, and the stories that used shock to say something.
Reading for this lesson
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Required Tales from the Crypt (EC, 1950 to 1955) Al Feldstein, William Gaines and the EC artists two issues, in any legal reprint
Read them as a 1952 reader would: fast, for the twist.
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Required EC Comics: Race, Shock, and Social Protest Qiana Whitted the introduction and the chapter on "Judgment Day!"
After your first thoughts.
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Recommended The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America David Hajdu the chapters on EC and the early 1950s
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Recommended "Judgment Day!" (Weird Fantasy #18) Al Feldstein (script), Joe Orlando (art) the whole story, in reprint
The best-known preachie.