num_pages: 224
description: In the 1950s horror comics flourished to the extent that fifty or more different titles could be published in a single month. Later these comics were effectively banned, indicted as a cause of juvenile delinquency'. Prurient imagery incorporating scantily clad women, limb-chopping and trauma to the eye', was often outlawed. Tracing their development from the grotesque visions of the pre-code' horrors through to the relative sophistication of b&amp;w titles in the sixties and seventies, Ghastly Terror! is an entertaining examination of this most persecuted and popular of comic genres.
language: English
title: Ghastly Terror!: The Horrible Story of the Horror Comics
titlecomplete: Ghastly Terror!: The Horrible Story of the Horror Comics
genres: History, Comics
ratings_count: 8
publisher: Critical Vision