About 20 years ago I was in a kind of partnership with another film historian who told me that, no, there wasn’t a market for a book on pre-code movies. I can only wonder what he thinks today after ...

In the years preceding what we now consider the Pre-Code era, his covers at publisher Continental on titles like Suspense Comics, Power Comics, and Mask Comics included iconic examples of comic book ...

Despite only lasting four short years from 1930 to 1934, the pre-code era of Hollywood’s Golden Age produced films that pushed the boundaries of cinema and storytelling, even by today’s standards.

Every once in a while, doing research like this on comic book history shifts our perspective on how that history fits together. While Avon's Eerie Comics #1, cover-dated January 1947, is considered ...

Halloween is just around the corner and Super7 is getting in the spooky mood with a new set of figures that honor the early days of comic book-bound horror. Following the release of their Pre-Code ...

Elliot Lavine, programmer of pre-Code films at the Castro Theatre (every Wednesday through March 30), was raised in Detroit, moved to the Bay Area in the 1970s with the thought of becoming a filmmaker ...