pEerie Publications' horror magazines brought blood and bad taste to America's newsstands from 1965 through 1975. Ultra-gory covers and bottom-of-the-barrel production values lent an air of danger to every issue, daring you to look at and purchase them.ppiThe Weird of World of Eerie Publicationsi introduces the reader to Myron Fass, the gun-toting megalomaniac publisher who, with tyranny and glee, made a career of fishing pocketbook change from young readers with the most insidious sort of exploitation. You'll also meet Carl Burgos, who, as editor of Eerie Publications, ground his axe against the entire comics industry. Slumming comic art greats and unknown hacks were both employed by Eerie to plagiarize the more inspired work of pre-Code comic art of the 1950s.ppSomehow these lowbrow abominations influenced a generation of artists who proudly blame career choices and mental problems on Eerie Publications. One of them, Stephen R. Bissette iSwamp Thingi, iTabooi, iTyranti, provides the