This new online documentary The Golden Age of Horror Comics - Part 1 and Part 2, from In Praise of Shadows, is utterly brilliant. Goes into the deep weeds about the company, the early 1950's pulp-horror comic zeitgeist, and the Comics Code Authority. Much artwork and archival footage, too. A comic-book historian's documentary. There's a fully developed thesis here with a solid line-through, right up to about 1992. Voice-over is a little passive at times. There is an abrupt ending, but this seems inevitable, given the weight of comics history.
It does for early-to-mid-1950's horror comics what Ron Mann's 1988 "Comic Book Confidential" did for underground comics. Amazing.
You can watch The Golden Age of Horror Comics - Part 1 on Youtube.
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