The Find of the Week for January 6th, is a horror comic released by EC Comics in the 1950’s titled The Haunt of Fear #17. Filled with zombies, witches, crypt keepers and things that go bump in the night, this horror series was snuffed out by the comics code in the late 1950’s.
The comic code was put into place over the growing concern about the negative effects depictions of gratuitous violence in comics was having on the youth readership. The code was created by comic publishers as an alternative to government regulation over the content published in comic books. Publishers would submit comics to the association for review and if the story line and illustrations met the code, it was given the seal of approval by the Comics Code Authority.
Horror comics such as The Haunt of Fear, had to cancel their publications after the comic code was put into place, because comic characters of the likes of vampires, zombies and werewolves were considered too gruesome and violent for the comic book audience. After the 1950’s, horror comics all but disappeared, that is until the code was completely dropped by all comic publications in the 2010’s.
A FyndIt member has located a very good copy of The Haunt of Fear #17 with a CGC universal grade of 4.5. If you are a zombie lover, horror fan or pre-code comic collector don’t miss out on finding out where to get this vintage horror collectors comic.
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