Back in 1989, Marvel brought Freddy Krueger to the funny pages with the first comic book adaption of the horror film "A Nightmare On Elm Street."
When horror movie characters take the leap from the silver screen to the pages of a comic book, the results are usually a mixed bag. More often than not the qualities that make a villain like Michael Myers or Jason Voorhees chilling on film just don’t seem to translate over to the new medium. But there are some terror icons who have flourished in this unique style of storytelling, entering new realms of creative debauchery that never could have been achieved on camera. In 1989 Marvel launched Freddy Krueger’s A Nightmare On Elm Street, an ongoing series featuring everyone’s favorite wise-cracking dream demon, and the results were terrifying.
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Though the first two issues of Freddy Krueger’s A Nightmare On Elm Street were very successful (they were being published at the high of the franchise’s popularity, back when you could find everything from Krueger dolls and lunchboxes to the infamous “Freddy Hotline” 900 number) Marvel pulled the plug on the series, fearing they would be targeted by the fanatical parent groups that were so prevalent during the Satanic Panic years of the 1980s. There were other Elm Street