Category: Horror Comics

Old Comic Books have some great horror stories and scary pictures. For example, check out this cover from Black Cat Mystery No.50. It’s 54 years old, published back in 1954, but it’s still one of the scariest things you’ll ever see.

This issue is avidly sought by collectors, selling for hundreds of dollars in prime condition. […]

EC Comics is the company that created the 3 best horror comics of all time: Tales from the Crypt, Vault of Horror and the Haunt of Fear. It was also home to the star power of artist Johnny Craig.
EC’s tales of terror were inspired by old radio shows and short stories. They were presented by […]

Bigfoot is a 4 issue comic series from writer Steve Niles, artist Richard Corben and horror movie director Rob Zombie. In this realistic take on the legendary Bigfoot,  a monstrous ape-man is preying on campers in the woods of the Pacific Northwest. Bigfoot also offers master craftsman Richard Corben a chance to return to his horror roots with amazing […]

The Walking Dead is a zombie comic from Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore of Image Comics. After a zombie outbreak, a small-town police officer, his family, and other survivors join together to survive. The zombie apocalypse causes arguments and stress within the group as they fight their way across the country to find a safe […]

The Halloween comics continue the story of Michael Myers in comic book form. There have been 5 sets of comics so far. It started with Halloween, Halloween II The Blackest Eyes and Halloween III The Devil’s Eyes, all published by Chaos. This story arc followed the Tommy Doyle character from the 6th movie.
Halloween One Good […]

Horror Comics have experienced a new popularity recently. Here is a gallery of some of the best scary titles available. My personal favorites are the zombie comics like The Walking Dead.

EC Comics
Warren
DC Comics
Marvel

Charlton
Standard
Image
Gold Key

ACG
Fawcett
Harvey
Atlas

IDW Publishing
Dark Horse
Vertigo
Aragorn

Dell Comics
Treehouse of Horror
Halloween Comics
Old Comic Books

Warren was the magazine company that published the highly popular horror comics Creepy, Eerie and Vampirella. By printing in a magazine format, Warren avoided the problems with the Comics Code that led to the demise of EC Comics.

Creepy

Eerie

Vampirella

Tom Gault’s Terrors Cartoon called “Our hero battles twenty-six alphabeticised terrors”. He’s a UK artist who creates cool simple drawings in Ballpoint pen. This one is created for the BALLPOINT exhibition at the PENTAGRAM gallery. Tom Gauld has been in the mini-comics scene for some time now and it seems that he has a special […]

The Tales From The Crypt comic books have been resurrected for a new generation of kids and adults to enjoy. Papercutz has released 2 issues and there are more to come.

The horror stories in Bart Simpson’s Treehouse Of Horror Comic 5 are based on Stephen King’s Carrie, Dawn of the Dead and Plan 9 From Outer Space. Lisa discovers strange powers when she gets revenge on bullies at school. The big ugly head causes a zombie rampage and Apu is abducted by kang and Kodos […]

Bart Simpson’s Treehouse Of Horror Comic 4 is subtitled “Milhouse of Horror“. The first story parodies the sci-fi horror movies The Thing and Thing From Another World. The second is based on Ray Bradbury’s The Illustrated Man - an anthology of horror stories inspired by the scary tatoos on the body of a circus carny. The […]

The 3rd issue of Bart Simpson’s Treehouse Of Horror Comic features horror stories based on Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The Fatal Reception story was given away as a free mini-comic book with that Halloween’s TV Guide.
Immigration of The Body Snatchers

Fatal Reception

The Blob and The Exorcist form the basis for the Bart Simpson’s Treehouse Of Horror Comic’s Issue 02 horror stories.
Sideshow Blob

The Exorsister

Bart Simpson’s Treehouse Of Horror Comic Issue 01 features parodies of Little Shop of Horrors, Moby Dick and Cat People.
Little Shop of Homers
   
Call Me Homer

Bart People

The Simpsons Horror Comic - Bart Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror - comes out every Halloween from Bongo Comics. There’s been 12 issues so far. Issue 13 will be out this September, so I’ll have a cover shot up here as soon as I can get it. The last one was issue 12.

Have a look at […]

It - The Thing that Couldn’t Die first appeared in Supernatural Thrillers Issue 1. Based on a short novelette by Theodore Sturgeon, which was originally published in 1948, “It” is obviously the basis for Man-Thing, Swamp Thing, and just about every other muck monster, although all of the above can be seen as offshoots of […]

Marvel Comics cancelled a lot of their superhero comics in favor of horror titles in 1949, it signalled a shift in all comic books towards scary stories.
Marvel Mystery Comics, their flagship title, turned into Marvel Tales, beginning with #93, dated August 1949. Marvel Mystery had featured superheroes but Marvel Tales was all horror.

Supernatural […]

DC Comics produced some great examples of the horror genre, following the success of the EC horror comics. DC jumped on the horror bandwagon.
House of Mystery is the longest running horror comic book and House of secrets is the magazine that introduced Swamp Thing. Weird War Tales is one of the best cross-grnre mashups […]