Horror comics the Code. While the genre has had greater and lesser periods of popularity, it occupies a firm niche in comics as of the 2010s. Precursors to horror comics include detective and crime comics that incorporated horror motifs into their graphics, and early superhero stories that sometimes included the likes of ghouls and vampires. Individual horror stories appeared as early as 1940. The first dedicated horror comic books appear to be Gilberton Publications' "Classic Comics" #13 (August 1943), with its full-length adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde", and Avon Publications' anthology "Eerie" #1 (January
Captain Flint Captain Flint Captain J. Flint is a fictional 18th-century pirate captain who features in a number of novels, television series, and films. The original character was created by the Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894). Flint first appears in the classic adventure yarn "Treasure Island", which was first serialised in a children's magazine in 1881, and later published as a novel in 1883. Captain Flint is one of the main characters in the book "Treasure Island", created by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1883. In Stevenson's book, Flint, whose first name is not given, was the captain of a pirate ship,