{"product_id":"the-weird-world-of-eerie-mike-howlett-9781932595871","title":"The Weird World of Eerie Publications: Comic Gore That Warped Millions of Young Minds!","description":"\u003cp\u003eEerie Publications' horror magazines brought blood and bad taste to America's newsstands from 1965 through 1975. Ultra-gory covers and bottom-of-the-barrel production values lent an air of danger to every issue, daring you to look at (and purchase) them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Weird of World of Eerie Publications\u003c\/i\u003e introduces the reader to Myron Fass, the gun-toting megalomaniac publisher who, with tyranny and glee, made a career of fishing pocketbook change from young readers with the most insidious sort of exploitation. You'll also meet Carl Burgos, who, as editor of Eerie Publications, ground his axe against the entire comics industry. Slumming comic art greats and unknown hacks were both employed by Eerie to plagiarize the more inspired work of pre-Code comic art of the 1950s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSomehow these lowbrow abominations influenced a generation of artists who proudly blame career choices (and mental problems) on Eerie Publications. One of them, Stephen R. Bissette (\u003ci\u003eSwamp Thing\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTaboo\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTyrant\u003c\/i\u003e), provides the introduction for this volume.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere's the sordid background behind this mysterious comics publisher, featuring astonishingly red reproductions of many covers and the most spectacularly creepy art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mike Howlett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1932595872\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781932595871\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Feral House\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/30\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 340\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.53lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.16h x 8.80w x 1.16d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/20\/2011 pg. 15","brand":"Mike Howlett","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43989539225855,"sku":"9781932595871","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_768c6a61-6280-4519-8c53-f6dff9f173f1.jpg?v=1683300082","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-weird-world-of-eerie-mike-howlett-9781932595871","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}