Inspired by twilight zone, creepshow, and tales from the crypt, zenescope, publisher of classic tales with horror. A national crusade against the corrupting influence of comic books was on the march including book burnings and protests. Gaines, ec comics quickly became the dominant force of the eras booming comic book industry, selling tens of millions of copies annually and generating intense, nationwide controversies with taboosmashing, confrontational stories in series like talesfromthecrypt and mad magazine. If comics like those from ec and writers like matheson, bradbury and. And if mickey means amiable family entertainment, the crypt keeper signifies a particular kind of horror tale. In the movie version, he is played with suitable ham by ralph richardson.
I never thought the tales from the crypt comics were as good as the suspenstories, which i. For those who think the 1950s were a wholesome, straitlaced decade devoted to promoting nuclear family values, lets just remember one of its most significant contributions to popular culture. Scroll down to add issues to your want list and well email you when they arrive. This text story has a title header image of two palm treesjungle and starts he patted the gunholster at his side.
With john kassir, roy brocksmith, miguel ferrer, cam clarke. Mournin mess, script by bill gaines coplot and albert b. After world war ii, america tried to go back to the way things were. In fact, the title tales from the crypt seems to have become a permanent part of american culture, like keeping up with the joneses, hairbreadth harry and any number of comics titles that still resonate with the public. After the initial comic incarnation had slipped into obscurity as the result of its very public slaughter at the hands of a deeply misguided censorship crusade that rendered all u. Chip selbys obvious labor of love brought me right back to those glorious days of the 1950s when i would haunt the neighborhood candy store every.
Gaines and artist al feldstein to create such gory, darkly funny comic books as tales from the crypt and haunt of fear. Check out our little collection of the tales from the crypt comic books. I found out they were based on the ec comics series and when i got into comics a couple years ago i started looking for a decent current run of those types of stories. As always thanks for watching, please like, comment, share and subscribe. Cs films, relatively new to the dvd game, has released tales from the crypt. Its put together something like the comic books, with the old crypt keeper acting as host and narrator. In the early 50s, pulp comic book publisher entertaining comics pumped out stories of horror and suspense in lurid pulp titles like the vault of horror, the haunt of fear and tales from the crypt.
Sep 10, 2014 zenescope has returned to its stomping grounds with grimm tales of terror, a newly released, ongoing monthly horror comic series. Tales from the crypt was a bimonthly horror comic anthology series published by ec comics from 1950 to 1955, producing 27 issues. This is an excellent look into the world of bill gaines and how he saved his fathers comic book company from bankruptcy by creating the now famous comics like tales from the crypt and mad magazine. Tales from the crypt is a massmarket paperback collection of eight horror comic stories gathered from the pages of the ec comics comic books of the 1950s. Tales from the crypt comics tales from the crypt wiki. Inspired by twilight zone, creepshow, and tales from the crypt, zenescope, publisher of classic tales with horror and supernatural twists, already has my full attention. This title was ecs best seller, and was the inspiration of several feature films and the hbo series of the same name. In 1971, when he was nine years old, selbys grandmother took him with her to the library. Featuring an image so garish and colorful that it practically leaps off the tv screen, the comicbased creation looks even more magnificent in. Tales from the crypt comic books 1991 series all regular issues are out of stock. Tells the story of ec comics, the controversy that led to the end of mainstream horror comics, and the hbo anthology series tales from the crypt. This volume reprints the first six complete issues 24 stories of the comic book tales from the crypt, originally published in 1950, and features classic horror stories of vampires, werewolves, ghouls and monsters in the vein of hte early dracula, frankenstein and wolf man movies. With wendy gaines bucci, john carpenter, russ cochran, jack davis.
See more ideas about tales from the crypt, crypt, horror comics. The crypt keeper returned in another feature, titled demon knight, in 1995, and yet another, bordello of blood, in 1996. Tales from the crypt was one of the most popular and notorious horror comic books of the early 1950s. From comic books to television is an amazingly beautiful 1. Like the horror stories in the tales from the crypt serieslike the absurdity of mad magazine, for that matterthe lurid tales in shock suspenstories represented the companys effort to. Changing the industry seemingly overnight in the early 1950s under the stewardship of publisher and writer william m. It is not the same as the text story with the same title curse. Long before marilyn manson and grand theft auto started corrupting young minds, horror comic books like ec comics tales from the crypt were the forbidden debauchery of choice.
If you dont like it being here, please state in the comments that you. Tales from the crypt was a bimonthly horror comic anthology series published by ec comics from 19501955, producing a total of 27 issues. Brutality, bloodshed, and sadism were the norm in these stories, andmuch to the horror of american parentsthe kids. First issue of the series continues from the crypt of terror. The comic books the series was based off of still give people the shivers nearly sixty five years later. Ec comics, aka entertaining comics and educational comics, was founded in 1944 by maxwell gaines with the aim of producing factbased comic books aimed at churches and schools. News, opinion and commentary philosophy and religion comic books censorship comic books, strips, etc. In the 1950s many believed comic books could destroy our moral structure and our very way of life. Feldstein coplot, script, art by graham ingels as ghastly.
The program deftly explores the circumstances that led entertaining comics ec publisher william m. From comic books to television is a film that should be at the top of your want list. After over 50 years, the flagship title of the legendary ec comics line has returned with allnew tales from the crypt as. Titles like tales from the crypt and house of mystery promised chills but.
Pulp and popcorn 1 tales from the crypt from comic books to. Theres other horror comics, like the ones from the 70s and some vertigo stuff, but its not the same. Tales from the crypt were the forbidden debauchery of choice. Selby credits his grandmother with his discovering his love for ec. Pulp and popcorn 1 tales from the crypt from comic books. Like a lot of people who work in comics or who just grew up in the second half of the. If you use the add to want list tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available. Like other titles published by ec comics, crypt featured stories that explored the depravity of human nature and the hypocrisy of middleclass society. Comics is, as well as educating yourself what it is of its historybackground. Zenescope has returned to its stomping grounds with grimm tales of terror, a newly released, ongoing monthly horror comic series. Featuring an image so garish and colorful that it practically leaps off the tv screen, the comicbased creation looks even more magnificent in direct to digital clarity. This is available with season one of tales from the crypt. Those gruesome, fantastical and slapstick chromosomes course through the films of joe dante and george lucas, of steven spielberg and quentin tarantino, and in the novels of stephen king and mr. Three dimensional tales from the crypt of terror volume comic vine.
From comic books to television, a semicomprehensive minidoc included among the special features on the tales from the crypt. After over 50 years, the flagship title of the legendary ec comics line has returned with allnew tales from the crypt as narrated by the original crypt keeper, the old witch, and the vault keeper. The shriek and opening to the hbo series tales from the crypt still gives people chills nearly 25 years after the show went off the air. Apr 16, 2016 like the horror stories in the tales from the crypt serieslike the absurdity of mad magazine, for that matterthe lurid tales in shock suspenstories represented the companys effort to find. It reached fever pitch by 1954 culminating with a senate hearing worthy of joe mccarthy, led by that anticrime crusader estes kefauver, and a crippling censorship of the comic book industry giving birth to the creation of a comics book code. From comic books to screen was directed by chip selby reasonable doubt.
See more ideas about tales from the crypt, crypt, ec comics. Tales from the crypt volume 1 this the best way to collect these classic tales of american comic book history. The new colouring compliments the vintage art work, the hard cover and the heavy stock paper will far outlast the original newsprint editions. The problem with finding stuff like tales from the crypt, is that theres nothing else quite like it. A 1947 comic book designed to teach people about the subversive nature of communist infiltration. From comic books to television by gc8 on july 10, 2012. Scroll down to add issues to your want list and well email you when they arrive view pictures of their covers. Main menu crypt downloads crypt links crypt comic books demon knight bordello of blood crypt episodes apply for my award view my awards send us an email. In 1989, the book was adapted into the hbo tv series tales from the crypt, which features john kassir as the cryptkeeper and included comic book covers designed to look like the original 1950s covers by mike vosburg with at least one drawn by shawn mcmanus. Ecs pulpy cultural dna, which pulses in comics like crypt and weird science, has proved hardier than anyone could have imagined. A mere comic book in 1950, today tales from the crypt and its crypt keeper are trademarks whose value exceeds their initial medium, much as disneys mickey mouse surpasses the value of his cartoons. Whether youre an original ec fanaddict or a second or thirdgeneration ec enthusiast, tales from the crypt.
If you are a seller for this product, would you like to suggest updates through seller. After scoring major successes with films like night of the living dead and martin, filmmaker george romero teamed up with writer stephen king for creepshow, a film which honored the horror comics. Oct 09, 2019 in the first episode of pulp and popcorn were going to talk about the 2004 madefortv documentary, tales from the crypt. The 15 best horror anthology comics of all time screenrant. His latest auteuristic attempt, tales from the crypt. Scarier than any story found in tales from the crypt is the everyday reallife horror that is the recession. Ec comics, the notorious comic book company whose volumes like tales from the crypt entranced a generation of impressionable kids and outraged their parents enough to prompt legal action. After his death in 1947, his son william gaines inherited the business, producing comic books in typical genres. From comic books to television, chronicles the rise of ecs iconic horror comics of the 1950s, their. Bernie wrightson, christina blanch, comic books, comics, danica davidson, horror, humor, jolyon yates, miran kim, tales from the crypt description additional information. Thus, a single issue of tales from the crypt would contain two stories told by the crypt.
Tales from the crypt comic book covers old comic books, vintage comic books. Tales from the crypt 1950 comic read tales from the crypt. Like marvels fantastic four, avengers, or maybe some of the dc comics work by jack kirby. Five people are taking a conducted tour of a crypt actually, londons old highgate cemetery when they suddenly find themselves in a creepy stone throne room. Tales from the crypt 1950 comic read tales from the. After his death in 1947, his son william gaines inherited the business, producing comic books in. It is one of five such collections published by ballantine books between 1964 and 1966 the others are the vault of horror, tales of the incredible, the autumn people and tomorrow midnight.
The likes of tales from the crypt and vault of horror told stories about. Tales from the crypt volume 1 al feldstein, wally wood. Along with its sister titles, the haunt of fear and the vault of horror, tales from the crypt was popular, but in the late 1940s and early 1950s comic books came under attack from parents, clergymen, schoolteachers and others who believed the books. Looking for books like tales from the crypt as a kid i used to love the creepshow movies and tales from the crypt shows. Along with its sister titles, the haunt of fear and the vault. What tales from the crypt taught us about illustrating war.
This entertaining documentary examines the rise, fall, and resurgence of horror comics. Creepshow comic teases tales from the allnew shudder series. Hearings targeted violent comic bookswhich fared poorly in the proceedings. Tales from the crypt was an american bimonthly horror comic anthology series published by.
The books were littered with black and white drawings of severed heads, rotting corpses and axewielding. Bookmark tales from the crypt was a bimonthly horror comic anthology series published by ec comics from 1950 to 1955, producing 27 issues. In the first episode of pulp and popcorn were going to talk about the 2004 madefortv documentary, tales from the crypt. Tales from the crypt 1972 directed by freddie francis. Comic book tales from the cold war crypt pti envisioning. The first three issues of the series were titled the crypt of terror.
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