Category Archives: Art

Celebrate Halloween With These Vintage Holiday Illustrations!

Posted on by Dazzling Erin

Vintage Halloween Postcard, artist unknown

Here to add some historical perspective to your Halloween celebrations are some wonderful vintage images of the holiday.  The illustrations below were all done during the first half of the 20th Century and they all show that Halloween is a holiday that’s been celebrated treasured for years before we came along and which will continue to be celebrate after all of us are gone.

Enjoy these classic images!

1913, by J.C. Leyendecker

1921, by Normal Rockwell

1923, by J.C. Lyendecker

1926, by Edgar Franklin Wittmack

1934, by Eugene Iverd

1943, by Charles Kaiser

And to all, a happy Halloween!

 

The Covers of Adventures Into The Unknown

Posted on by Dazzling Erin

First published in 1948 by the American Comics Group, Adventures Into The Unknown was the first regularly published horror comic book and it’s success led several other comic book companies, most notably EC Comics, to start publishing horror comics of their own.  Because Adventures Into The Unknown‘s content was never as explicit as some of the comics that it inspired, Adventures became one of the few horror comics to survive the anti-comic book moral panic that erupted in 1954.  Unlike Tales From The Crypt and The Vault of Horror, Adventures Into The Unknown continued to be published after the creation of the Comic Book Code.  In total, it enjoyed a 20-year run of 174 issues.

Below are some of the many covers of Adventures Into The Unknown.  As you can tell, the covers went from emphasizing horror to emphasizing science fiction and adventure after the creation of the Comic Book Code.