31 days of Horror 2012 Extra 11

Essential Marvel Horror volume 1
 2006
Various artists and writers

This is a collection of pretty much all of the solo appearances of Daimon Hellstorm AKA the Son of Satan and his sister Satanna. It starts off reprinting Hellstorm's appearances in the first two issues of the 70s Ghost Rider comic. Then his 13 issue run in Marvel Spotlight.All 8 issues of the Son of Satan solo series. Plus his appearances in Marvel Two in One and Marvel Team Up. For Satanna we get her appearances in Vampire Tales 2 and 3,Haunt of Horror 2,4, and 5,Marvel Premiere 27 and Marvel Preview 7.

I actually can remember reading some of the Son of Satan issues of Marvel Spotlight when I was little. Which is strange when I consider how religious my mom was at the time. I have always liked the Daimon Hellstorm character. Him being the son of Satan,but also being a exorcist and even becoming a monk at one time is a nice parallel. Now some of these comics reprinted here are kind of cheesy,but even then they are still a fun read. The artwork is never anything amazing but it also doesn't flat out suck. So if you have an interest in Hellstorm this is the trade to pick up cause outside of his time in the Defenders this reprints pretty much every comic he was in.

Now before reading this all I knew about Satanna was what I had read about her in the Marvel handbook. The stories reprinted in here all have gorgeous artwork. And some of them are text only stories. It seems she mainly appeared in the various Marvel B/W magazines. Which makes sense cause those magazines didn't fall under the Comic code. So the writers and artist could do stuff in these stories that wasn't allowed in normal comics at the time.

Now this trade has a cover price of about 17 bucks. But it is easy to find it for much less than that. I got my copy from Instocktrades.com for a little under 10 bucks. And it is worth more than that. Essential Marvel Horror volume 1 gets a B.