{"id":2619,"date":"2020-08-05T08:10:01","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T15:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=2619"},"modified":"2020-07-19T11:07:32","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T18:07:32","slug":"447-the-haunt-of-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/447-the-haunt-of-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"447 &#8211; The Haunt of Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/monster-maker-hof17-591x1024.png\" alt=\"A panel from Haunt of Fear #17, May 1950\" class=\"wp-image-2620\" width=\"384\" height=\"664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/monster-maker-hof17-591x1024.png 591w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/monster-maker-hof17-173x300.png 173w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from Haunt of Fear #17, May 1950<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Although it varies by story, Haunt of Fear #17 (May 1950) shows that EC Comics continue to have the best overall stories by 1950, but the art has also stepped up too.  Panels are increasingly filled with shadows and monsters and deranged people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"928\" height=\"942\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/television-terror-hof17.png\" alt=\"Another panel from Haunt of Fear #17, May 1950\" class=\"wp-image-2621\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/television-terror-hof17.png 928w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/television-terror-hof17-296x300.png 296w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/television-terror-hof17-768x780.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 928px) 100vw, 928px\" \/><figcaption>Another panel from Haunt of Fear #17, May 1950<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking of deranged people, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Gaines\">Bill Gaines<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Al_Feldstein\">Al Feldstein<\/a> even make a couple of appearances in their own magazine.  A cute way of winking at their readers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/witchs-cauldron-hof17.png\" alt=\"Yet another panel from Haunt of Fear #17, May 1950\" class=\"wp-image-2622\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/witchs-cauldron-hof17.png 940w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/witchs-cauldron-hof17-300x245.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/witchs-cauldron-hof17-768x627.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><figcaption>Yet another panel from Haunt of Fear #17, May 1950<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although it varies by story, Haunt of Fear #17 (May 1950) shows that EC Comics continue to have the best overall stories by 1950, but the art has also stepped up too. Panels are increasingly filled with shadows and monsters and deranged people. Speaking of deranged people, Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein even make a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[458,463,350,397,417],"class_list":["post-2619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-458","tag-al-feldstein","tag-ec","tag-horror-comics","tag-william-gaines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2619"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2624,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619\/revisions\/2624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}