{"id":130342,"date":"2018-10-24T14:21:07","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T18:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=130342"},"modified":"2018-10-24T14:55:33","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T18:55:33","slug":"scenes-dealing-with-walking-dead-torture-vampires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/24\/scenes-dealing-with-walking-dead-torture-vampires\/","title":{"rendered":"Scenes Dealing with Walking Dead, Torture, Vampires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>In midtwentieth-century America, the appetite for comics was astounding. As many as a hundred million books were sold each month. Whereas the comics of the forties starred talking animals and muscle-bound superheroes, the fifties saw the rise of comics that grew darker and stranger. One publisher, Entertaining Comics (EC), altered the landscape of American pop culture with its twisted, vividly illustrated forays into genre: science fiction, horror, mysteries, suspense, war stories. Readers devoured EC\u2019s gruesome tales, but the golden age of crypt-keepers and space dinosaurs was short-lived. In 1954, the Comics Magazine Association of America\u2014besieged by obscenity trials, comic-book burnings, and claims that comics caused juvenile delinquency\u2014established the infamous Comics Code. One criterion of the Code prohibited \u201cscenes dealing with, or instruments associated with walking dead, torture, vampires and vampirism, ghouls, cannibalism, and werewolfism.\u201d \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.societyillustrators.org\/exhibits\/tales-crypt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tales from the Crypt: The Revolutionary Art of MAD and EC Comics<\/a>,\u201d showing at the Society of Illustrators until October 27, collects more than seventy comic-book pages of pre-Code, ghoulish gore. Feast your eyes, and may your juvenile delinquency be long and prosperous.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_130344\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-130344\" class=\"wp-image-130344 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/002.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/002-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/002-768x1117.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/002-704x1024.jpg 704w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-130344\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Johnny Craig, <i>The Vault of Horror<\/i>, issue no. 30 cover, ink on paper, April\u2013May 1953. From the collection of Eugene Park and Anna Copland.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_130346\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-130346\" class=\"wp-image-130346 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/004.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/004.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/004-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/004-768x1138.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/004-691x1024.jpg 691w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-130346\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Al Feldstein, <i>Shock SuspenStories<\/i>, issue no. 7 cover, ink on paper, February\u2013March 1953. From the collection of Zaddick Longenbach.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_130348\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-130348\" class=\"wp-image-130348 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/010.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/010.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/010-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/010-768x1133.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/010-694x1024.jpg 694w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-130348\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Al Williamson, Bill Gaines, Al Feldstein, and Jim Wroten, <i>Space-Borne!<\/i>, <i>Weird Science<\/i>, issue no. 16, ink on paper, November\u2013December 1952. From the collection of Jim Halperin.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_130347\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/009.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-130347\" class=\"wp-image-130347 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/009.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/009.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/009-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/009-768x1072.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/009-734x1024.jpg 734w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-130347\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marie Severin (original illustration by Graham Ingels), <i>The Haunt of Fear<\/i>, issue no. 17 cover, ink on paper, hand-colored lithograph, watercolor, June 1974. From the collection of Rob Pistella.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_130349\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-130349\" class=\"wp-image-130349 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/011.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/011-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/011-768x1159.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/011-679x1024.jpg 679w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-130349\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wally Wood and Harvey Kurtzman, <i>Blobs!<\/i>, <i>MAD<\/i>, issue no. 1, page 6 of 7, ink on paper, October\u2013November 1952. From the collection of Rob Pistella.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_130350\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-130350\" class=\"wp-image-130350 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/012.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/012-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/012-768x1147.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/012-685x1024.jpg 685w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-130350\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wally Wood, <i>Weird Science<\/i>, issue no. 15 cover, ink on paper, September\u2013October 1952. From the collection of Ken Caviness.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_130345\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-130345\" class=\"wp-image-130345 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/003.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/003.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/003-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/003-768x1132.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/003-695x1024.jpg 695w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-130345\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jack Davis, <i>Tales from the Crypt<\/i>, issue no. 35 cover, ink on paper, April\u2013May 1953. 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