The Horror! The Horror!: Comic Books the Government Didn't Want You To Read (with DVD)
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| Rating | : | 4.68 (844 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0810955954 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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Censorship, Congress, and Comics oh, my! Sunny California As a college instructor teaching a Mass Media class to mostly young people born in the very late 1980s and 1990s, I found this book to provide good examples of material that is definitely horrific, and yet was supposed to be "for" very young children (8-12 years old). The DVD that comes with this title is of a television broadcast investigating the dangers of comic book consu. coulda been more, but it's still pretty darn good. As a long-time collector of EC and pre-code horror comics, I was really looking forward to this book. I was hoping for a well-researched tome, one that might turn over some new stones and shed some light on the (still mostly unknown) second-string creators and companies whose comics captivated kids and horrified their parents in the staid 1950's. Or perhaps a volume with load. Three Thumbs Up! Richard Testa I spent this past Holiday reading this and even dedicated one night in Vegas to perusing its pages. The compilation is a great collection of horror comics that would be nearly impossible to collect individually. I recommend it to horror comic fans with three thumbs up (and if that's not creepytrust me this book is).
Jim Trombetta, in his commentary and informative text, provides a detailed history and context for these stories and their creators, spinning a tale of horror and government censorship as scary as the stories themselves.Bonus DVD--Confidential File, a rare 25-minute TV show that first aired on October 9, 1955, about the "evils" of comic books and their effect on juvenile delinquency is included with the book. Please note that the enclosed DVD begins with a 58-second test pattern, followed by the tv show. Praise for The Horror! The Horror!:"In addition to offering a generous helping of controversial comics Trombetta's book provides insightful history." -New York Times Book Review. Senate subcommittee investigating juvenile delinquency in 1954, have rarely been seen since they were first published—and are revealed once again in all of
Stine is the bestselling author of hundreds of horror novels, including the Goosebumps and Fear Street series.. Jim Trombetta has been a Shakespearean scholar, a reporter and editor for Crawdaddy, the Los Angeles Times, and other publications, and a writer of numerous TV shows, including Miami Vice, The Flash, and Star Trek. L. He lives in Los An
Trombetta strings together the selections with perceptive commentary that assesses the comics’ recurring elements—not just zombies and werewolves, but also such themes as hunger and sexual hostility—and ties them into such cultural and political currents of the era as anticommunism, nuclear terror, and racism. A suitable companion volume to David Hajdu’s 2008 account of the anticomics witch hunt, The Ten-Cent Plague. --Gordon Flagg . Since his aim is to accurately characterize the genre, most of Trombetta’s examples sport crude artwork, preposterous plots, and risible dialogue. From Booklist Horror comics dominated the comic-book industry in the early ’50s before they were targeted by congressional hearings aimed at stemming their lurid excesses. Trombetta documents the phenomenon, reprinting more than 100 covers, dozens of excerpts, and a handful of complete stories that amply demonstrate the imaginati