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OODOO HAS PUT A SPELL ON YOU! One of the weirdest, coolest, cheesiest, most bizarre, goriest Pre-Code comic books is being reprinted in its entirety. Voodoo, originally published by Robert Farrell (below), features beyond good taste, sexy Good Girl Art, and old-skool horror art by the master Matt Baker and his associates from the infamous group the Iger Shop! There are 200-plus pages filled with lurid pulp fiction stories like “Zombie Bride,” “The Weird Dead,” and “The Crawling Horror.” This large format, full-color book of terrors includes a fear-filled and fascinating Introduction by Mike “The Worst of Eerie Publications” Howlett!
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BELOW Voodoo’s strange sisters: Haunted Thrills #1 (June 1952) and Strange Fantasy #2 [#1] (August 1952). Artwork by the Iger Shop.
This is book #11 in The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics™ by Yoe Books™ Book #1 is Dick Briefer’s Frankenstein. Book #2 is Bob Powell’s Terror. Book #3 is Zombies. Book #4 is Jack Cole’s Deadly Horror. Book #5 is Haunted Horror: Banned Comics From the 1950s (Vol. 1). Book #6 is The Worst of Eerie Publications. Book #7 is Howard Nostrand’s Nightmares. Book #8 is Tom Sutton’s Creepy Things. Book #9 is Haunted Horror: Comics Your Mother Warned You About (Vol. 2). Book #10 is Haunted Horror: Pre-code Comics So Good, They’re Scary (Vol. 3). Book #12 is The Complete Voodoo (Vol. 1). Book #13 is Horror by Heck. Book #14 is Devil Tales.
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If you like this book, please blog; post on Facebook, Tumblr, Amazon, and Goodreads; podcast and tweet about it! Visit the International Team of Comics Historians blog www.TheITCHblog.com. Join the Facebook group Horror Comics: 1950s and Beyond! Become a fan of YOE Books on Facebook! Friend Craig Yoe on Facebook! The cover illustration is from Voodoo #8, April 1953. The front endpaper illustrations are from [title TK] [issue, date TK] and [title TK] [issue, date TK]. The back endpaper illustrations are from [title TK] [issue, date TK] and [title TK] [issue, date TK]. ISBN: 978-1-63140-455-9 16 15 14 13 1 2 3 4 A special thanks to our good fiend Mike Howlett. Our books would be a horror without the generous expertise of our proofreaders: Mark Lerer, Stephen Persing, and Susan Rubin. Much gratitude to the following monsters without whom this book would not have been possible: Giovanna Anzaldi, Tommy Stanizola, and Jason Willis. YoeBooks.com Craig Yoe & Clizia Gussoni, Chief Executive Officers and Creative Directors • Sandy Schechter, VP of Research • Media Associates: Steve Bennett, David Burd, Steven Thompson, and Doug Wheeler. IDW Publishing Ted Adams, CEO & Publisher • Greg Goldstein, President & COO • Robbie Robbins, EVP/Sr. Graphic Artist • Chris Ryall, Chief Creative Officer/Editor-inChief • Matthew Ruzicka, CPA, Chief Financial Officer • Alan Payne, VP of Sales • Dirk Wood, VP of Marketing • Lorelei Bunjes, VP of Digital Services. October 2015. First printing. The Complete Voodoo Volume 1 is © 2015 Gussoni-Yoe Studio, Inc. All Rights Reserved, including the digital remastering of the material not held by copyright owners. Yoe Books is a trademark of Gussoni-Yoe Studio, Inc. Yoe is a registered trademark of Gussoni-Yoe Studio, Inc. IDW Publishing, a division of Idea and Design Works, LLC. Editorial offices: 2765 Truxtun Road, San Diego, CA 92106. Any similarities to persons living or dead are purely coincidental. With the exception of artwork used for review purposes, none of the contents of this publication may be reprinted without the permission of Idea and Design Works, LLC. Printed in Korea. IDW Publishing does not read or accept unsolicited submissions of ideas, stories, or artwork.
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WHO DO THAT VOODOO?
ITH THE BOMBASTIC DOMINANCE of superheroes over the last halfcentury, it’s hard to believe that, in the early 1950s, horror was one of the most popular comic book genres. Dozens of horror titles were released every week, bulging the comic racks with repulsive reading: a veritable smorgasbord of sanguinary scares. EC Comics jump-started this phenomenon with their line of well-written, impeccably illustrated horror titles Tales from the Crypt, Vault of Horror, and Haunt of Fear. Publisher William M. Gaines took an all but ignored genre and turned it into the comic
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Voodoo #1, May 1952. Artist: Matt Baker.
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Voodoo #1, May 1952. Artist: Matt Baker.
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