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- Swamp Thing, DC. The all-time classic from Len Wein and Wrightson. Even if the story was terrible (which it most definitely is not), it would still be worth it just for the Wrightson artwork, dripping with forbidding shadows and swampy atmosphere.
- Tomb of Dracula, Marvel. The handbook for how to do a horror anti-hero as the lead for your series. Brilliant work from Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan for nearly 70 issues (Marv didn’t take over as writer until a few issues into the series).
- Ghost Rider, Marvel. Sometimes you sell your soul to the devil and you go to hell. Sometimes you become a superhero. Probably the best melding of horror and superhero in any cohesive universe, with a little Evel Knievel (another ’70s touchstone) thrown in for good measure.
- Man-Thing, Marvel. Marvel’s muck monster graduated to his own series in the horror-centric era. Introduced right around the same time as DC’s Swamp Thing, the character found its footing — no pun intended — when Steve Gerber took over the scripting.
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“Bat Out of Hell” (House of Mystery #195, October 1971) was written by Jack Oleck. Adam Leach is a terrible drunk who beats his wife and children. Desperate for shelter they take up residence in an old castle. In a fit of rage, Adam kills his wife. Later he is set upon by a giant vampire bat. He tries to kill the bat but falls to his death. In the ...
“My Ghost-Writer, the Vampire” (The Unexpected #197, April 1980) was written by Scott Edelman. Prentice Vaughn makes his living writing trashy horror novels. He becomes a huge success when he takes on a silent partner, a real vampire. When Vaughn is going to have a big publicity party he tells the vampire to scoot. The vamp is indignant that he isn...
It would be a little foolish to expect great innovation in the 1970s and 80s from DC’s Bronze Age vampire tales. Horror comics had been using vampires for decades. (Literature much longer.) Working under the Comics Code, the old DC horror tales were never as gruesome as the 1950s stuff.That aside, these comics do reflect the attitudes of their time...
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Oct 7, 2021 · However, zombies, or more particularly, “the walking dead,” and “torture,” were still no longer allowed. The floodgates were opened, and this led to a boom in horror comics that would last most of the decade. DC had continued publishing horror titles by replacing words such as, “horror,” with words like “mystery”.
Oct 27, 2020 · However, with Vertigo fully continuing DC’s horror tradition, scary comics published under the DC label became less common. They never went away completely, though, and even the characters from Wildstorm got into the spirit in 1997 as they took on elements of the supernatural in the Wildstorm Halloween Special.
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Ghosts is a horror comics anthology series published by DC Comics for 112 issues from September–October 1971 to May 1982. Its tagline was "True Tales of the Weird and Supernatural" (December 1978), changed to "New Tales of the Weird and Supernatural", as of #75 (April 1979), and dropped after #104 (September 1981). Publication history.
Oct 9, 2014 · All good things come to an end, and all three of the previously mentioned horror comics publishers saw their profits decline by the middle of the decade. Eerie and Skywald publications were defunct before the end of the Seventies, and Warren Publishing filed for bankruptcy in 1983.
Jul 12, 2020 · English. During the mid-1970s, DC Comics published an "atmospheric interpretation" of the character by writer Dennis O'Neil and artist Michael Kaluta in a 12-issue series (Nov. 1973 – Sept. 1975) attempting to be faithful to both the pulp-magazine character and radio-drama character. Kaluta drew issues 1–4 and 6 and was followed by Frank ...
