E.C. Comics (2 Points)

 I read E.C Comic's Tales from the Crypt, Weird Science, and Weird Fantasy. Weird Science and Weird Fantasy can easily be paired together. Both focus on a collection of stories about mysterious circumstances, whose settings were either present day their time, the past, or a sci-fi/fantasy setting. These works featured everyday normal characters discovering a strange creature, item, or person, and either destroying or surviving the strange event. The events are often unexplained and left to mystery. These stories can get a little spooky, and shows slight graphical elements, such as dead people and cut fingers, nothing too hard core, unlike Tales from the Crypt. If there was any reason for the Comics Code Authority to be created, it was definitely these comics, and not Weird Science and Fantasy. Although maybe not as powerful of a scary story during the 21st century (that might just be my opinion,) but it definitely has some kick, with more nasty stories and visuals. Half rotted corpses, melted faces, and other sickening images or concepts of gore. Whatever is too gruesome to be depicted is often left to the reader's imagination in the form of text describing the sickening scene. Our spooky host, the Crypt keeper charmingly shares these haunting tales, and I appreciate the idea that these stories were stored and then shared with us by the Keeper, rather than just being a compilation, like Weird Science and Fantasy. It really makes you feel like you are being shared these specific stories for a reason, rather than just putting a bunch of random stories in a stack and calling it a book. Over all, I enjoyed Tales from the Crypt more than Weird Science and Fantasy, due to its unique presentation and thrilling stories, even if they are not as scary as they used to.


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