Tales From the Crypt

Tales From the Crypt brought me back to my childhood since I used to watch these as show adaptations.  They were very dark and never had a good ending.  This was a problem for parents and adult figures in the community.  It was something they thought were influencing children in a negative way.  Unfortunately, this was the reason for the demise of the series. 

I thought it was interesting the way the series was told from the perspective of the Crypt Keeper.  Occasionally he pops up throughout the story lines, but for the most part he was a creepy character only half seen sitting in a sinister looking crypt.  Every story is different, kind of like how Twilight Zone is set up.  The different stories always kept me reading because even though the story was over, you wanted to know more about the characters and what happens after their horrible events.

The demise of these comics was unfortunate.  The line was drawn in the sand, so to speak, for the difference between adult and children’s comics.  It put in place a censorship system that would change the world of comics.  Today, the internet has provided us a way to get the comics that would have been censored or sold underground. Before the use of the internet, though, it would have been much more difficult for the comics to thrive.  This is why many comic series by EC comics did not survive.