Looking back at the glory days of the festive magazine and comic book cover.

Looking back at the glory days of the festive magazine and comic book cover.
In the outlandish and fantastical world of the superhero comic, it should come as no surprise that little is off-limits, even a foray into gothic and literary horror.
The academic author who was the lone defender of Video Nasties and horror comics during the cultural dark ages of the 1980s.
The outrageous kinkiness of classic comic books and their BDSM-inspired creators.
The class war raging behind every call for ‘something to be done’ about the dubious pleasures of the great unwashed.
The story of Britain’s first horror moral panic and the odd role that the Communist Party played in it.