Before the establishment of the Comics Code Authority, horror was able to reign supreme in comic books with stories both gory and goofy that would influence the future of the genre. Super7 is now ...
About 20 years ago I was in a kind of partnership with another film historian who told me that, no, there wasn’t a market for a book on pre-code movies. I can only wonder what he thinks today after ...
The most exciting time in Hollywood was arguably the ephemeral period before the stingy rules implemented by the industry. Before the adoption of the Hays Code, the guideline that major studios ...
Lasting for for 21 issues 1951-1955, Strange Mysteries was a successful Pre-Code Horror title by any standard. Its publisher Superior Publications was a Canadian company that reprinted a wide range of ...
Pre-Code horror will never go out of style, as fans of gruesomeness and gore will always want what many considered too sinister at some point. Case in point is Strange Mysteries #8, published by ...