Classic Crime Comics Covers

Another covers gallery. I love this one–plenty of weirdness!

Zombie kisses…mmm. The taboo pleasures of necrophilia in four-color glory!

William Burroughs wasn’t the only one addressing the horrors of drug addiction. These touchy themes led to constant censorship battles for EC Comics.

The horrors of love. I like this guy’s beard.

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McSweeney’s Issue 13 (Chris Ware) « biblioklept November 19, 20061:44 am Reply

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The Ten-Cent Plague — David Hajdu « biblioklept February 22, 20094:03 pm Reply

[…] the majority of the book is devoted to the national panic that arose from the massive popularity of crime and horror comics in the 1950s. Many of these comics were published by Bill Gaines’s EC comics. Bill Gaines […]

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