The Weird World of Eerie Publications: Comic Gore That Warped Millions of Young Minds
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| Rating | : | 4.44 (888 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1932595872 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 340 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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The Weird World of Eerie Publications Trollbeard Ah, Eerie Pubs. No interior story could possibly EVER do justice to those covers. But how they tried sometimes magnificently.And Mike Howlett's tribute to them, "The Weird World of Eerie Publications" is an awesome book.I was 11 years old when the first issue of Weird hit. My Mind Was Warped By Eerie! RMM2 I was a huge fan of Eerie Publications as a sub-teen and teenager! So many memories buying these surprisingly gory comic magazines on vacations to south FloridaI would save up all year to buy a stashtitles like WITCHE'S TALES, TALES OF VOODOO, EERIE and all the rest. Thes. D. W. T. Taylor said Call me Weird, but. In his introduction to this fantastic exhumation of the bizarre, bizarre case of Eerie Publications, Stephen Bissette describes the strange mixture of fascination, disgust, guilt and glee with which he explored each twisted issue of Weird, Tales of Voodoo, Witches' Tales
Ultra-gory covers and bottom-of-the-barrel production values lent an air of danger to every issue, daring you to look at (and purchase) them.The Weird of World of Eerie Publications introduces the reader to Myron Fass, the gun-toting megalomaniac publisher who, with tyranny and glee, made a career of fishing pocketbook change from young readers with the most insidious sort of exploitation. Bissette (Swamp Thing, Taboo, Tyrant), provides the introduction for this volume.Here's the sordid background behind this mysterious comics publisher, featuring astonishingly red reproductions of many covers and the most spectacularly creepy art.. You'll also meet Carl Burgos, who, as editor of Eerie Publications, ground his axe against the entire comics industry. One of them, Stephen R. Slumming comic art greats and unknown hacks were both employed by Eerie to plagiarize the more inspired work of pre-Code comic art of the 1950s.Somehow these lowbrow abominations influenced a generation of artists who proudly blame career choices (and mental problems) on Eerie Publications. Eerie Publications' horror magazines brought blood and bad taste to America's newsstands from 1965 through 1975