Swamp Monsters (Chilling Archives of Horror Comics) Paperback – June 11, 2019

I am really enjoying this pre code horror series by Yoe books. Each book has a theme, this one is Swamp Monsters, the first book was Mummies. Nice size, similar to an old comic book & soft bound with good color on vintage feel paper. Usually some covers are reproduced as well. I look forward to the next one which will cover Ghost comics. I hope they will do a Frankenstein themed book as well.

They've really outdone themselves with this compendium. Dark. Swampy. Murky. Welcome to the age of horror comics when such things were permitted and presented without apology. If you swim near Innsmouth or like to dip a toe into the metaphorical backwaters of the bayou - CCR playing in the background, of course - you'll love this.

This is an excellent collection of vintage horror comics. Highly recommend to any fan of the old horror and swamp thing

I gave this two stars because it's printed on good quality paper and the presentation is great. The stories selected are, however, even by the standards of the time period, pretty bad. I wasn't expecting something life-changing from this volume, but the title is misleading unless your definition of what constitutes a 'Swamp Monster' is a lot broader than mine. I did enjoy some of the artwork, but I have to say that if I had seen this in a shop somewhere (as opposed to pre-ordering it from Amazon based on the title, description, and cover illustration), I would have saved my money. I might have picked it up a few years down the road if I'd found it in a 5 buck box at a convention. It should have been called "Strange Swamp Tales" or something similar rather than trying to cop market share from Swamp Thing and Man-Thing fans by using the title they went with. That fact alone almost cost them another star from my review.

This is a typical IDW reprint. You are either going to love it or hate it. Quality is on par with previous reprints but NOTE the book is 127 pages long and NOT over 240 pages long. It is a slim paperbound volume. Besides a few notable cover artists..Matt Baker...LB Cole. The only story art by a name artist is by Basil Wolverton. Venture into this swamp at your own risk.