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
Robert Macaulay Stevenson Robert Macaulay Stevenson Robert Macaulay Stevenson (1854 – 1952) was a Scottish painter associated with the Glasgow Boys. Robert Macaulay Stevenson was born in Glasgow in 1854. He was one of four sons and three girls born to Jesse Macaulay and John Stevenson, an engineer. His brother Sir Daniel Macaulay Stevenson was a Liberal politician, Lord Provost of Glasgow and Chancellor of the University of Glasgow. Stevenson initially studied engineering however later changed to study art at the Glasgow School of Design. He was influenced by the French style of painting in particular the work of the Barbizon school and