HORROR! VIOLENCE! GORE! Comic Books the Government Didn't Want You to Read! Golden Age Terror
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- Опубликовано: 18 окт 2024
- The Horror! The Horror! Comic Books the Government Didn't Want You to Read by Jim Trombetta (2010). Terror. Fear. Gore. The 1950s horror comic was designed to jump out at you-all but literally-from a magazine rack swarming with competitors. Golden Age horror comics were so outrageous and disturbing that the US Congress held televised hearings about the impact of comic books on juvenile delinquency. This witch-hunt led to comic book burnings, the Comics Code Authority, and the end of comics Golden Age. Here are over 200 comic book covers and comics featuring the best-or is it the worst-of 1950s horror comics. Featuring comic book artists Don Heck, George Tuska, Charles Biro, Basil Wolverton, L.B.Cole, Johnny Craig, Bob Powell, Bernard Baily, Steve Ditko, Joe Maneely.
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Dana Gould had a theory this was an outlet for PTSD from the war at a time when that kind of thing wasn't an above-the-board conversation. How many of these artists saw mangled bodies in the war? And how many of them were working some of this out?
One thing that's always baffled me about Dr. Wertham and the Senate subcommittee is that they seemed to have focused completely on the question "do gruesome comic books cause juvenile delinquency?" while ignoring the more mundane but infinitely more plausible "do gruesome comic books sometimes scare the daylights out of normal kids, and perhaps cause nightmares, loss of sleep, persistent thoughts, and similar problems?" Makes me wonder, from my vantage point almost 70 years in the future, how much Wertham and the senators cared about the nation's youth, and how much they cared about publicity.
There's a company called PS Artbooks that are doing really nice, thick, hardcover reprints of these old horror comics. I have a bunch of them, can't recommend them enough.
how is shipping from the UK? prompt?
Ive been buying all Ps Artbooks! Their way better than todays comics!
Their the Best comics to collect as a book
Lee Elias, George Tuska, and Don Heck were just killing it back in their pre-code horror and crime comics days. Alas, when they had to draw super-heroes in the 60s and 70s, they seem to have stopped giving a shit.
That Fanta book, Four Color Fear, is a real eye-opener if you're only familiar with reprints from Marvel and EC. Less domestic formula stuff and more trippy fantasy, realism be damned. My favorite was Green Horror, from a comic called Fantastic Fears. It's a love triangle between a man, a woman, and a cactus. Yowtch!
Just did a quick search on Captain America's Weird Tales and read thru a story where he fought the Red Skull in hell. Shit was wild. It's funny how companies just kept throwing spaghetti at the wall at the tail end of the golden age.
Macbeth is a pretty gruseome story full of murders, plus it has witches. I'm guessing that's why that's in there.
and Banquo's Ghost, Lady Macbeth unable to get blood off her hands, sleep walking, nightmares, talking in her sleep...
I pretty much came here to say this exact thing you and Portland said. Macbeth is brutal, creepy, and gory af.
Macbeth absolutely would work as an EC horror style comic. There are witches, betrayal and murder, Lady Macbeth goes insane, both she and Lord Macbeth get a brutal comeuppance for their evil acts.
6:40 It’s actually pretty funny that you mentioned Alan Moore Jim, since he did do a parody of that character (Mr. Crime) in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Tempest #5.
It was a mixture of him, the EC hosts and the Nemesis of Neglect.
Great video, guys! This stuff was bizarre to me as teenager in the 70’s but always thought the comics code was milksop lame! Eventually leading to underground comics and eventually to the indies ! Thanks again!
Awe, Crap!
Got KAYFABE'd with this book in my 🛒
Hahahahah
Another series of comics from my childhood. I swear. You guys raid my comic drawer and bookshelf
In the 30's and 40's 'The Hayes Code' stifled filmmakers like the 'Comics Code' did in the 50's. I imagine a lot of those writers, cartoonist, inkers, illustrators, editors did what they did because a page for a paycheck could actually afford them enough
Comic Books back during the late 40s and early 50s had exploded into a wide variety of genres and were selling quite well. Here are some examples of those genres that the Comics Code basically either destroyed or stagnated. So that after the Code only Superheroes were in Mainstream Comics.
Superhero
Military Fiction/War
Crime
Horror
Science Fiction
Western
Fantasy
Funny Animal
Comedy/Teen Humor
Supernatural
Adventure
Romance
Celebrity/Biography
Thank you so much for these comics history episodes !
Always my favourites
this channel is a gift !
If it hasn’t been mentioned before, legendary wrestling manager Jim Cornette is a comic book fan from way back and apparently has or had quite the vintage collection. Also, he has had a graphic novel published called “Behind The Curtain” about his time with the Midnight Express. Could be some crossover potential with his podcast.
shit hope the guys see this, Cornette does youtube interviews he would probably be down
The Macbeth book is probably in there because it depicts one of the earliest literary decapitations. "Enter Macduff with Macbeth’s head."
It's amazing how ahead of the times the art is in these books. They really allowed artists to unleash themselves as cape comics were still working under a house style at the time. I have a whole box of these that were my Dad's and read a lot of them growing up and I turned out fine...aside from the one or seven murders.
You guys mentioned Macbeth....Orson Welles version of Macbeth looks and feels like a horror movie...you should check it out: It's a really great movie....
Howard Nostrand did Targitt / John Targitt - Man Stalker for Atlas in the 70's and Cracked magazine. An underrated artist. Any chance of visiting some Atlas comics?
Some of these artists did serve during WWII and after they display their gore skills from traumatic moments they saw in the villages and battlefields
If the code was still active today there wouldn't have been any Vampire Lestat or Twilight comics
😡...Try an keep me from any reading material or anything else and you can sook ma bawlls❗️❗️❗️
I feel like this is a nice sampling and overview coffeetable style book. But a lot of the stuff here is reprinted in it's entirety by YOE publications in very nice editions at affordable prices. So if this is your type of thing - check out the plethora of quality offerings from Craig Yoe. (And no, I get nothing out of endorsing them - I just want people to be able to find the comics that interest them).
Ed, Moore and Oniel did the white ghost crime comics host type in the LOEG tempest book. Pretty funny, I thought.
As far as gore, some of the 1950s crime comics were worse than the horror titles.
what about jack kirbys black magic
Heads are not decapitated! BODIES are decapitated. Heads are DISEMBODIED!
Link to the video included with the book.
ruclips.net/video/GI8IJA8kdkI/видео.html
"Propaganda of the devil"? Are you being euphemistic here?