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The Mammoth Book of Best Horror Comics (Mammoth Book of)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780786720729
ISBN: 0786720727
Label: Running Press
Manufacturer: Running Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 448
Publication Date: March 24, 2008
Publisher: Running Press
Studio: Running Press
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Editorial Review:
Bringing together the finest names in comic book horror, this volume features nearly 50 comics that caused a furor in the US and sparked legislation to crack down on explicit horror—from the 1940s to the 21st century. Includes names like Steve Niles, Pete Von Sholly, Michael Kaluta, Mike Ploog, Rudy Palais, Rand Holmes, Vincent Locke, Frank Brunner, and many more. Reproduced in black and white for this brand-new collection.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Ventage comics collections
The artwork was great with the recreation of the comic in readable and good text form. The use of printing the stories in black and white added and enhance the reading for the reader.
Now if they could only put out a publication of the collections of mysteries in space, and the complete collection of WEIRD SCIENCE (only vol 1 and 2 are available at this time).
Rating:  - High Quantity, Low Quality
It's great to have so many comics all bound together, but they're all black and white (I'm sure some of them were originally in color). They're also much smaller than they were in their original comic book format, making it a bit of a stretch to read. However it was fairly cheap, and the lightweight paper is nice.
Rating:  - This is for Lovers - not for Chart-Hoppers !!!
Having read some of the negative reviews before, I was almost sure that I would get what I hoped for - but now I see that this book offers so much more...!
Sure the book could have a bigger print in colour - and I would certainly be willing to pay a lot for this book in an edition comparable to the MARVEL OMNIBUSSES.
But as it is, the book is an affordable option to get a really wide perspective on horror comics from pre-code to postmodern.
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Rating:  - Not worth the money, borrow it
It would have been much more enjoyable IF it had at Least an Oversized Paperback.
Rating: - Vintage horror comic reprint anthology
This 'tome' is full of fascinatic reprints and essays, although I would've liked to see a large heavy hardcover coffee-table edition of some of the comics in full colors like the EC Comics horror/suspence volumes. Even more importantly, the book provides an insight to the Golden Age of comics - perhaps the author should do a Silver Age sequel to explain the difficulties under the Comic Code!
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