Scream! (comics)

Scream!
The cover of the first issue of Scream!
Publication information
Publisher	IPC Magazines
Schedule	Weekly
Format	Anthology
Genre	Horror
Publication date	March – June 1984
Number of issues	15
Creative team
Writer(s)	John Wagner, Alan Grant, Simon Furman, Alan Moore
Artist(s)	José Ortiz, Eric Bradbury, Brendan McCarthy

Scream! was a British weekly horror comic anthology that was published for 15 issues by IPC Magazines in 1984.

Controversy over horror comics had led to the introduction of the Children and Young Persons (Harmful Publications) Act 1955, under which the first prosecution occurred in 1970. The editorial approach to Scream! was to de-emphasise the horror label and deliberately not repeat the style of its more controversial precursors, making it more tongue-in-cheek for younger readers, as evidenced by its coverline "not for the nervous".

Stories included:

Scream! was edited by Barrie Tomlinson, Ian Rimmer and Simon Furman but in the tradition of counterparts such as 2000 AD and Tornado it was claimed to be edited by its fictional host, Ghastly McNasty. Rimmer claims to have taken inspiration for the name Ghastly McNasty from a Liverpool band called Filthy McNasty. Ghastly's face was concealed by a hood, and a regular feature of the comic involved readers sending in drawings of what they believed he looked like.

Despite fan speculation that Scream! was cancelled due to complaints from the public the reason it, along with five other IPC titles, ceased publication was in response to an industrial dispute. It subsequently merged with Eagle to form Eagle and Scream!, in which the series Monster and The Thirteenth Floor were continued. There were also six seasonal specials released, mostly consisting of reprints of horror-themed stories from IPC's back catalogue.