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Horror! Book Digs Up Lurid ‘Pre-Code’ Monster Comics

via Underwire

During the golden age of comic-book gore, ghoulish stories about zombies, werewolves, skeletons and gorgons arrived in drugstore magazine racks on a monthly basis. Honoring America’s midcentury infatuation with all things macabre, new book The Horror! The Horror! surveys “pre-Code” comic titles from the early 1950s that specialized in outlandishly violent supernatural fantasies.

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