Marvel Comics and horror stories have a long and prosperous history with one another. Back when Marvel was still known as Atlas, stories of the weird, the strange, and the horrifying were commonly printed across many anthologies. There’s just something fun and thrilling in reading tales of outlandish science fiction and pulse-quickening horror that other genres of comic book stories can’t quite match.Throughout the ’70s, Marvel was on a tear with its horror line-ups. Marvel produced new anthologies such as Dead of Night, Chamber of Horror, and Marvel Chillers. However, it also published dedicated horror magazines, like Tales of the Zombie and Vampire Tales, under the Marvel Monster Group imprint. And as if all that monster goodness wasn’t enough, supernatural characters were taking off in big ways across Marvel’s mainline series, too. And then, without applause or aplomb, came Aargh!, a comic series of the dorkiest and most painful order.The best way to describe Arrgh! is to liken it to a mix of Mad and Marvel’s horror titles. Familiar faces and plots are drawn in pointedly cartoonish and exaggerated caricatures, gunning more for groan-inducing gags than actual plots and laughs. It’s all tongue-in-cheek, of course, and the idea was to poke fun at a genre that had become a little over-saturated, even by Marvel’s own hand. It is by no means a highbrow read, and even fans of Saturday morning slapstick might find some of its content a little hard to digest well, but Arrgh! still maintains a unique place in Marvel’s history.
Marvel Comics and horror stories have a long and prosperous history with one another. Back when Marvel was still known as Atlas, stories of the weird, the strange, and the horrifying were commonly printed across many anthologies. There’s just something fun and thrilling in reading tales of outlandish science fiction and pulse-quickening horror that other genres of comic book stories can’t quite match.
Throughout the ’70s, Marvel was on a tear with its horror line-ups. Marvel produced new anthologies such as Dead of Night, Chamber of Horror, and Marvel Chillers. However, it also published dedicated horror magazines, like Tales of the Zombie and Vampire Tales, under the Marvel Monster Group imprint. And as if all that monster goodness wasn’t enough, supernatural characters were taking off in big ways across Marvel’s mainline series, too. And then, without applause or aplomb, came Aargh!, a comic series of the dorkiest and most painful order.
The best way to describe Arrgh! is to liken it to a mix of Mad and Marvel’s horror titles. Familiar faces and plots are drawn in pointedly cartoonish and exaggerated caricatures, gunning more for groan-inducing gags than actual plots and laughs. It’s all tongue-in-cheek, of course, and the idea was to poke fun at a genre that had become a little over-saturated, even by Marvel’s own hand. It is by no means a highbrow read, and even fans of Saturday morning slapstick might find some of its content a little hard to digest well, but Arrgh! still maintains a unique place in Marvel’s history.
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