A new collection reprints the first six issues of EC Comics’ classic 1950s pulp horror series. Packed with gore and goofiness, these may, in fact, be the comics your mother warned you about. 

Critic Etelka Lehoczky says, “It’s not too surprising that, a few years after EC began publishing, it became the focus of Congressional hearings and comic-book bonfires. All these years later, though, the censors look like jerks.”

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