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  • The Collector

    March 4, 2009

    • When I was a kid, I was obsessed by EC comics. Tales From the Crypt, Vault of Horror, Haunt of Fear, Shock SuspenStories, Crime SuspenStories, Weird Science, Weird Fantasy, Frontline Combat, Two-Fisted Tales. My parents wouldn’t let them in the house. In 1955, the Comic Book Code gutted EC’s line and I turned my attentions elsewhere. But into adulthood I regularly dreamed of discovering ...
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  • Wertham

    April 30, 2008

    • David Hadju’s "The Ten-Cent Plague" has revived interest in the comic book wars of the 1950s and the contribution of Fredric Wertham, M.D. to the abolitionist surge. As a survivor of one of the bloodiest of these campaigns, I feel a duty to chime in. The most vilified comics of that era were those published by EC – "Tales from the Crypt," "Haunt of Fear" ...
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