Not quite the same as the old Charlton title, this series, edited by the talented Craig Yoe, collects some very strange and gruesome love stories from the pre-Code days. It's interesting to contrast these stories with some of the later horror stuff - I've been reading, though not blogging, some of the old Marvel reprints from the 70s, Creatures on the Loose and Vault of Evil and such. There's just something a little more neutered about those later stories. So much happens off-panel, or almost happens but then doesn't, whereas the old stories just go all out. While the sexual politics of virtually every story are pretty shady, the art and the willingness to take the stories to extremes is really lovely.
Well, not lovely. Gross, really. But that's what we come to these old comics for.
"I'm glad you value it, my dear husband. Then, perhaps, you won't mind when it cracks your skull wide open! I can wait no longer for you to die!"
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