Requins

A compact, 19-issue black-and-white horror anthology series published by Les editions de poche from 1965 to 1967, Requins (French for "sharks") delivered bite-sized tales of suspense and the macabre to French newsstands. Though the creative team is not widely credited, the series stands as a distinctive, mid-60s pocket-sized artifact of European genre comics—a shadowy, succinct forerunner to the more famous horror magazines that followed. Its very obscurity makes it a curious footnote for collectors of vintage international horror comics.