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A history of adaptations of the beloved, twisted horror comics. By Diana Prince · @kinky_horror · April 29, 2021, 3:29 PM CDT EC Comics' THE CRYPT OF TERROR. Heh-Heh! I see you're horror-hungry again, boils and ghouls! Prepare your stomachs for another savory serving of screams! From our cauldron to your molting minds, it's a tasteless taste of history, seasoned with the most delectable ingredients: gore, ghouls and gags! In the Fearsome Fifties, EC Comics satiated our appetite for the atrocious and rotted the brains of a generation. While the company went defunct in 195...

In the introduction to the massive, gorgeously illustrated recent book The History of EC Comics, author Grant Geissman asks, “Why should there be a gigantic, weighty tome in celebration of these comics?” His answer: “Put simply, because this lesser-known company had an enormous impact on American pop culture, managing to be both commercially successful as well as boldly innovative. At its creative peak in the 1950s . . . EC reads like a ‘who’s who’ of mid-20th Century comic books.” Founded by legendary comic book pioneer M. C. Gaines, then inherited by his son William Gaines i...