Never got off the ground due to rights issues
What are your favourite old-school horror comics Yas Forums?
Matthew Smith
Alexander Allen
I’m pretty sure it’s DOA
Colton Smith
Dick briefer's Frankenstein.
Alexander Cruz
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.
Tyler Allen
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.
Juan Perez
This magazines were monthly?
Levi Cooper
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).
Matthew Lewis
Jordan Richardson
Not heard of Terrifying Tales of Fright or Startling Terror
Benjamin Torres
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.