
Although superheroes are the most well-known part of the DC and Marvel comic worlds, they aren’t the only types of stories these publishers create. Both companies produce a wide variety of content, and horror is a particularly important genre for them. In fact, with only a short break from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s, both DC and Marvel have been publishing horror comics since the 1940s. Of course, each publisher has brought its own distinct approach to the horror stories they tell. But when horror comics became popular again in the 1970s, DC and Marvel developed different ideas about the style, atmosphere, and subject matter of their horror titles.