“Comic Books Banned in Detroit as ‘Corrupting’” — The Washington Post, 1948, when somewhere between 80 and 100 million #comics were being sold monthly https://hyperallergic.com/366028/banned-horror-comics-back-from-the-dead/ #horror @bookstodon #ECComics #bannedcomics

You can't deny how good these things still look today — Johnny Craig's cover art for The Vault of Horror, No. 18 (1951). A "slow craftsman" says The Paris Review: “I was supposed to do three stories a month. I was lucky if I did one" https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/10/29/how-horror-transformed-comics/ #horror #ECComics #comics #books

Awash in publicity, the hearings and resulting Comics Code established exactly 70 years ago effectively crippled then-thriving studios. Publishers killed titles deemed disagreeable and sent their staff home. Suddenly hundreds of #comics professionals in the late 1950s would never work in the medium again — My 2017 @hyperallergic piece on the day's banned #horror and crime comics: https://hyperallergic.com/366028/banned-horror-comics-back-from-the-dead/ #art #comicshistory #ECComics