Another of the dozen or more small comics publishers with big dreams who crashed and burned in the 1980's was NOW Comics. NOW tried to e...

In the mid-70's, Marvel Comics founder Martin Goodman started up a new comics company called Atlas Comics. The company attracted a lot o...

In the late 70's, DC Comics introduced a character named Madame Xanadu in a book titled Doorway to Nightmare . I never read any Madame X...

I had originally considered doing this as a Halloween entry due to the title and the grotesque nature of the main character, but after rerea...

So here's our final Halloween edition of Out of the Vault for this year, on the fifth Saturday of the month (which is apparently very ra...

So continuing our Halloween-themed cavalcade of stripper-witches, we come to Willow #0. Just to answer the question of what's more coll...

So after having written about Vampirella , the vampire-stripper, last week, I figured I'd just run out the string through Halloween with...

Once when I was a teenager, I walked in my room to find my mom standing in front of my open closet door, reading one of my comics. I was pro...

As I've mentioned before, horror comics back in the days when the Comics Code held sway contained little in the way of actual horror, a...