In the early 1970s, in the wake of the Comics Code Authority's relaxation of their proscription against the mere mention, never mind the depiction, of vampires, werewolves, ghouls, and other supernatural creatures (the case for zombies is a bit more complicated) that were the mainstays of horror movies in the 1930s and 1940s, and were revived in the offerings of England's Hammer Studios from the mid-1950s onwards, Marvel Comics, following DC (National Comics), started color horror anthology titles and, with the October 1971 issue of Amazing Spider-Man, began introducing horror-type characters (in the person of Morbius, the Living Vampire) into their superhero titles.ĭue to the warm welcome that fandom accorded Morbius, Marvel started creating more horror-themed characters that were initially kept isolated from their mainstream superheroes. 1975), as penciled by Gil Kane and inked by Mike Esposito. The front cover, shown below, is a tweak of the cover to the first issue of his eponymous series (cover dated Dec. , 2006 ISBN: 978-0-7851-2196-X 648 pps.), a b&w "phone book" omnibus reprinting various color and black & white comic book stories (and a few prose stories and text features) featuring two of Marvel Comics' horror anti-heroes cum superheroes, the brother and sister act of Daimon Hellstrom, the one-time "Son of Satan," and his younger sister, Satana Hellstrom. Uvula_fr_b4Ever since I purchased it on Sunday, 2 October 2011 until I finally finished it on Sunday, 28 October 2012, I've been reading Essential Marvel Horror, Vol.
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