Ghastly Terror! The Horrible Story of the Horror Comics

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 & w titles in the sixties and seventies, Ghastly Terror! is an entertaining examination of this most persecuted and popular of comic genres.Sennitt, Grant is the author of 'Ghastly Terror! The Horrible Story of the Horror Comics' with ISBN 9781900486071 and ISBN 1900486075.