A review by sistermagpie
The Horror! The Horror!: Comic Books the Government Didn't Want You to Read! by R.L. Stine, Jim Trombetta

3.0

This is another book I've had on my shelf for years and finally got to reading. A lot of it is reprinted horror comics from the 50s, which are always great. These are punctuated by little essays on different patterns and motifs in them and some of those were pretty interesting, but nothing really amazed me. One of the more interesting anecdotes was about a comic that was one of those mid-20th century racial allegories, the type that you might find on Star Trek, and was here almost censored just for being about race. It's also the only story where a black person seems to appear without being a cannibal, because it's the 50s.