In the 1950s horror comics flourished to the extent that fifty or more different titles could be published in a single month. Later these comics were effectively banned, indicted as a cause of juvenile delinquency'. Prurient imagery incorporating scantily clad women, limb-chopping and trauma to the eye', was often outlawed.Tracing their development from the grotesque visions of the pre-code' horrors through to the relative sophistication of bandw titles in the sixties and seventies, "Ghastly Terror "is an entertaining examination of this most persecuted and popular of comic genres.