Four Color Fear: Forgotten Horror Comics of the 1950s - Softcover

Wolverton, Basil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1606993437 ISBN 13: 9781606993439

Publisher: Fantagraphics, 2017

Synopsis

In the genre's peak period (1951-1954), before it almost destroyed the comics industry, before the watchdog groups and Congress, over fifty horror titles appeared each month, and Four Color Fear collects the finest of these into a single robust and affordable volume. EC is the comic book company most fans associate with horror: therefore, for the average reader there remains unseen quite a batch of genuinely disturbing, compulsive, imaginative, at times even touching, horror stories presented from a variety of visions and perspectives, many of which at their best can stand toe to toe with EC. In Four Color Fear, the better horror companies are represented, and artist perennials contribute both stories and covers, with many of the forty full-sized covers created by specialists Bernard Baily, L.B. Cole, William Eckgren, and Matt Fox.

About this title

About the Author:

Greg Sadowski is a writer, editor and designer (B. Krigstein, Supermen!, Four Color Fear, Setting the Standard: Alex Toth; Action! Mystery! Thrills!) living in Washington State.

John Benson is a comics historian living in New York City.

Basil Wolverton was born near Medford, Oregon in 1909 and died in 1978. His Fantagraphics-published books include Basil Wolverton's Culture Corner and The Wolverton Bible, and his work is featured in Supermen!: The First Wave of Comic Book Heroes 1936-1941.

Review:

“EC is often at the center of the story [of Pre-Code horror comics]... Four Color Fear strives to provide an accessible sampler of everything else. Editor Greg Sadowski is adept at such missions.”
- Joe McCulloch, Los Angeles Review of Books

About this edition

• Publisher: Fantagraphics
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1606993437
• ISBN 13: 9781606993439
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Sadowski Greg, Benson John