The Comic Book

For the assignment of reading earlier works in comic book history I chose to read first Tales from the Crypt. I had heard about these comics from documentaries about comic book history but I wasn't really expecting to see what I read in them. These comics were written in the 50s so I expected some fairly conservative spooky stories, somewhat akin to a campfire ghost story, but I was pretty surprised at what they featured. The first one was about a man stranded with no food on an island and they show him bitting into a rat ravenously and him eventually being eaten by a shark. Another one had an axe murderer killing someones wife and another showing a man being buried alive at sea stuck in a box. I feel these are very adult concepts being portrayed and because these were marketed to kids I thought man no wonder the comics code was established shortly after. I feel now a days if someone wanted to make this into some kind of cartoon it might be marketed towards older kids maybe in their teens. It was a far cry from the others ones I looked at like Airboy or some of the Action comics i read which had more of what I thought I would see, pulp like stories and simplistic characters kids could relate to.