Horror comics are comic books, graphic novels, black-and-white comics magazines, and manga focusing on horror fiction.
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16 Facts About Horror comics
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Precursors to horror comics include detective and crime comics that incorporated horror motifs into their graphics, and early superhero stories that sometimes included the likes of ghouls and vampires.
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Horror comics briefly flourished from this point until the industry's self-imposed censorship board, the Comics Code Authority, was instituted in late 1954.
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Horror comics further suggested the industry strong-armed vendors into accepting their publications and forced artists and writers into producing the content against their will.
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Horror comics noted female breasts in comics protruded in a provocative way and special attention was lavished upon the female genital region.
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Wertham contended Horror comics promoted homosexuality by pointing to the Batman–Robin relationship and calling it a homosexual wish dream of two men living together.
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Horror comics observed that Robin was often pictured standing with his legs spread and the genital region evident.
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Horror comics first presented a long list of his credentials, and then, in his clipped German accent, spoke with authority on the pernicious influence of comic books upon children.
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Kefauver suggested crime Horror comics indoctrinated children in a way similar to Nazi propaganda.
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Horror comics took full responsibility for the horror genre, claiming he was the first to publish such comics.
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Horror comics insisted that delinquency was the result of the real environment and not fictional reading materials.
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Horror comics was asked by Senator Estes Kefauver, Democrat of Tennessee, if he considered in "good taste" the cover of his Shock SuspenStories, which depicted an axe-wielding man holding aloft the severed head of a blond woman.
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The Code had many stipulations that made it difficult for horror comics to continue publication, since any that didn't adhere to the Code's guidelines would likely not find distribution.
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In 2008, the London Horror comics Comic launched, becoming the first full-colour UK horror comic to be shipped worldwide through Diamond Comic Distributors.
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Horror comics are published on the web, with horror webcomics that include the pioneering work of Eric Monster Millikin, an anthology webtoon, Tales of the Unusual and Zuda comics High Moon.
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Horror comics have been sources for horror films, such as 30 Days of Night, Hellboy and Blade, and, from horror manga, such films as Uzumaki, Z ~Zed~ and two 1980s movies directed by comics creator Hideshi Hino adapted from his manga Guinea Pig: Flower of Flesh and Blood and Guinea Pig: Mermaid in a Manhole.
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