It's Travis' Turn: Remembering EC Comics

It's Travis' Turn: Remembering EC Comics

I never cared much for comic books when I was growing up. I found the humorous ones insipid and the superhero ones boring. Then I discovered the EC Comics of the 1950s, many of which were reprinted in the 1990s. In a word, they were sordid, and I loved them. I still do. Best known today for Tales from the Crypt and MAD, EC had a host of titles designed to appeal to the ghoul in all readers. There was The Vault of Horror, The Haunt of Fear, Shock…