Book Review: Ghosts and Girls of Fiction House!

Book: Ghosts and Girls of Fiction House! edited by Michael Price

Source: Borrowed from Publisher/NetGalley for an honest review

Publication: Available now

Description:

The publisher Fiction House was infamous for what anti-comics crusader Dr. Fredric Wertham called "headlight comics," i.e. comics featuring the ample female bosom. The Pre-Code publisher used their buxom heroines to star in jungle comics, science fiction tales, and scary GHOST STORIES! The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics series curates the sexiest and scariest of these poltergeist-infused Good Girl Art comics in a pulse-pounding tome, Ghosts and Girls! Your hair will stand on end and at the same time your toes will curl! Featuring faithfully reprinted original art from these 1940s and 1950s by brilliant masters Matt Baker, Maurice Whitman, and more, don't miss this must-have, large format collection edited by comics historian and filmmaker Michael Price, with its lovingly restored comics.



Rating: 1 star

Review:

I'm always interested in learning more history about the comic book industry or in this case Fiction House Comics but unfortunately this was a letdown. Although the book mainly featured essays about Fiction House Comics and many of their popular sci-fi, supernatural and pulp fiction comics, it was the dull writing that left me uninspired.

The essays were informative but I was very bored reading them, most of the essays were about a lot of the behind the scene stuff about writers and artists at the company as well as other stuff that was going on at the company. I also found the samples of The Ghost Galley comics that followed after the essays weren't that interesting either.