TALES FROM THE CRYPT (1950-55) #27
CGC FN-: 5.5
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Wally Wood guillotine cvrTales from the Crypt was one of the hallmark titles put out by scandalous horror comics house EC that was responsible in no small part for the initiation of the Comics Code Authority and Congressional hearings about the damage comic books were doing to young, impressionable minds. It is evident from this Wally Wood illustration that there may have been something to this theory, as the gruesome and oftentimes violent imagery depicted on these covers still deliver a shock today. This guillotine cover is a classic of the series, which specialized in jolting readers with disturbing images that kept them rushing to newsstands to get their cheap thrills in the otherwise milquetoast 1950s
Wally Wood guillotine cvrTales from the Crypt was one of the hallmark titles put out by scandalous horror comics house EC that was responsible in no small part for the initiation of the Comics Code Authority and Congressional hearings about the damage comic books were doing to young, impressionable minds. It is evident from this Wally Wood illustration that there may have been something to this theory, as the gruesome and oftentimes violent imagery depicted on these covers still deliver a shock today. This guillotine cover is a classic of the series, which specialized in jolting readers with disturbing images that kept them rushing to newsstands to get their cheap thrills in the otherwise milquetoast 1950s