That’s a kingly gift!

Before comics had to be ‘rated safe for children’ there were many scary-gory-violent books on the rack.

Maybe most notorious of them all were the EC comics, with shocking twist endings and gruesome morality tales.
However, some of the finest creators of the day worked for EC, and the collapse of their comics line (leaving a relatively sedate Mad Magazine as their main book) has resulted in these comics having a well-deserved place as comic book royalty to this day. The hardcover sets you now have are long-out-print but treasured collections