The horror! the horror! : comic books the government didn't want you to read! / selected, edited, and with commentary by Jim Trombetta ; introduction by R.L. Stine.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Trombetta, Jim.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horror comic books, strips, etc--United States.

Horror comic books, strips, etc.

Horror comic books, strips, etc--United States--History and criticism.

Censorship--United States.

Censorship.

United States.

Physical Description:

304 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 28 cm + 1 DVD (27 min. : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Abrams ComicArts, 2010.

Summary:

Accompanying DVD contains a 1955 episode of a weekly television news program entitled Confidential file / a report by Paul Coates ; directed by Irvin Kershner ; produced by James Peck ; a Guild Films release. It includes an interview with Estes Kefauver, with a horror-comic artist, and with some young readers of horror comics. It also includes a dramatization of the effects of these comics on young people.

Uncovers a rare visual treasury of some of the most important and neglected stories in American literature--the pre-Code horror comics of the 1950s. Censored out of existence by Congress in an infamous televised US Senate subcommittee hearing investigating juvenile delinquency, these rare comic book images are culled from a collection of several hundred, many of which have been rarely seen since they were first issued--now revealed once again in all of their eye-popping inventive outrageousness. Includes over 200 covers and complete stories as they were originally seen, scanned from mint copies in the author's extensive collection. Coupled with commentary and informative text that provides readers with detailed history and complete context for these stories and their creators.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Confidential files (Television program)

ISBN:

9780810955950

0810955954

OCLC:

289070803