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Lurid Max Terms of Use: This site contains artistic depictions containing the subject matter of Pre-Code Horror Comicbooks books from the 1940s. Including the following mediums ( but not limited to ): Drawings, stories – writings: text dialogue, narrative; comicbook panels, cover reproductions, Re-Imaginings, books, graphic novels; penciled, inked, digitally colored, painted illustrations; acrylic, watercolor; and photos of 6th scale models in dioramas; video game in-game animation videos, screenshots; video clips from videos and images found on the internets.
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