What are your favourite old-school horror comics Yas Forums?

Eh, they probably have seen worse on the YT Kid's app.

Black Cat Mysteries is pretty fun and surprisingly gruesome, even now. People get seriously fucked up in these comics. The reprinted editions are pretty cool, even have the old ads.

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Yeah the later seasons are a bit better about that stuff, you have to remember this was on HBO and Tits are their main selling point

Tales from the Cryptkeeper was one of my favourites as a kid and then the actual Tales from the Crypt became a favourite as a teen/adult

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This reminds me of the noir comics in Europe.
I know the boom in Italy was in the 60s and it lasted long.
What happened in USA?

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Anti-comics advocates in the USA found a voice in a psychiatrist named Wertham who wrote a bestselling book in 1954 called Seduction of the Innocent that trashed comics and sparked a furor that led to a Senate hearing on Juvenille Delinquency where, sadly, a bunch of comics publishers made idiots of themselves and turned public opinion against comics even more. Scared of crackdowns, they implemented a very strict code in 1955 to make comics safe for kids that pretty much banned all but the most tame kinds of horror comics until the early 70s.

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Mort Cinder, if it counts.

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You probably forgot about the nudity and swearing due to the fact that, for ages, the only version of the show that you could watch was the super censored syndication cut that HBO produced for Fox in the early 90s that later served as the backbone for the show's syndication package. The pilot was heavily censored for Fox (the bulk of the nudity blurred/cut and most of the nudity phased out due to them getting big named directors to do episodes and them refusing to do gratuitous nudity in their episodes.

Horror comics didn't actually go away for good.

When EC folded their comic output to focus entirely on MAD, there was a brief period where there was no horror comics. But in the early 1960s, Warren Publication launched a series of horror themed comic magazines (Eerie, Creepy, and Vampirella; the last started out as a horror anthology until they made Vampirella the main star).

Warren's horror magazines were insanely popular and attracted top tier talent due to Warren paying better than DC and Marvel.

Warren had a huge influence on DC, who basically ripped off the Warren mags when they turned House of Mystery and House of Secrets, back into horror comics and Joe Orlando (who worked at EC and was given editorial control over HoS and HoM) explicitly ripped off Creepy and Eerie for tone format.

Whatever happened to the Tales From the Crypt revival that TNT was trying to get off the air?

Never got off the ground due to rights issues

I’m pretty sure it’s DOA

Dick briefer's Frankenstein.

It's dead, because TNT decided to be cheap fucks and the owners of EC Comics told them to get bent.

HBO bought the master license to the entire EC Comics library when they made Tales From the Crypt. That's why they did story adaptations from not just TFTC, but Haunt of Fear, Crime Suspense Stories, Vault of Horror, and other EC Comics. Same with Amicus, who did the two EC Comics horror films (Tales From the Crypt and Vault of Horror).

TNT was offered the master license but were fucking retards and thought the HBO show was just 100% Tales From the Crypt comic stories. So they refused to pay EC Comics for the master library rights to their stories and demanded just Tales From the Crypt.

They bought the rights but then realized they only got about a fraction of the stories from the HBO show, let alone the EC comics library. The executive stupidly thought TFTC was the only comic EC made and threatened to sue the owners of EC Comics for "tricking them". The lawsuit stopped pre-production until the lawyers sat the retard from TNT down and explained how EC Comics was right and he was stupid as fuck and told him to either pay whatever price EC wanted for the master rights to their library and pray they forgive TNT for his bullshit or drop the lawsuit and walk away from the project and pray that his supervisors don't fire his ass for costing them a potential hit show.

The executive chose the later rather than admit that he fucked up HUGE so he shelved production and let the rights expire, meaning he cost TNT millions for nothing.

Jesus, execs are fucking stupid.

Hopefully the next studio that picks up the rights can give us, if not a TV series, a Haunt of Fear movie so we can have a trifecta of anthology movies with EC titles.

This magazines were monthly?

Public Domain comics sites have a lot of 50's horror stuff up (not EC's, DC's, or Marvel's, but still a lot of stuff from former publishers).

comicbookplus.com
digitalcomicmuseum.com

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Not heard of Terrifying Tales of Fright or Startling Terror

Some of the more popular ones, yes. That said, many of the horror titles were fairly short-lived even during the heyday of the 50s. Westerns, Gangsters and Funny Animals probably outsold even the best-selling of them.

This. People forgot about how the Warren magazines filled that niche back in the 60's, and how DC was partly horror/mystery-centric back in the early 70's. Hell, the Mature Readers line + Vertigo is where most of the Horror-era stuff went to, like nearly all the DC horror hosts of the 70's became supporting characters in Gaiman's Sandman.

>The Outer Limits

Based.

who remembers the Freaky Stories animated show?

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