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Selección Terror: Comic de Terror

· 1980

Selección Terror: Comic de Terror
A Spanish pulp magazine cover featuring a skeletal, ghoulish figure emerging from a yellow rectangle against a red cityscape background. The composition uses explosive diagonal hatching and garish color contrasts typical of horror pulp aesthetics. Bold typography announces the selection as a terror comic by Adam Surray. This cover exemplifies the tradition of lurid painted artwork that defined pulp magazines—economical mass-market publications that packaged sensationalized stories in horror, crime, and adventure genres. The visceral imagery and graphic intensity reflect how pulp covers competed aggressively for newsstand attention, using grotesque imagery and vivid color to signal genre and promise thrills to readers.

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