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	William Gaines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Maxwell Gaines (March 1, 1922 – June 3, 1992), or Bill Gaines as he was called, was the founder of Mad but he was also noted for his efforts to create comic books of sufficient artistic quality and interest to appeal to adults.
		Bill Gaines was the son of Max Gaines, publisher of the All-American Comics division of DC Comics and also an influential figure in the history of comics, having tested the idea of selling comics on newsstands, inspiring the creation of Wonder Woman among other achievements.
		As World War II began, Bill Gaines was rejected by the United States Army, United States Coast Guard and United States Navy, so he went to his draft board and requested to be drafted.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Gaines (1094 words)

	Pulitzer Prize-winner Bill Gaines named to Knight Chair in Journalism
		Gaines, who has taught courses for more than two decades on investigative reporting and is the author of a widely used textbook on the subject, will start at the UI in August.
		Gaines "is an absolutely compelling choice for the recognition," Rotzoll said, because of Gaines' prize-winning journalism and his willingness to reflect deeply on his craft.
		Gaines also was a finalist for two Pulitzers: in 1979, for a series about the problems of the elderly, and in 1995, for an investigation into the financial dealings of the Nation of Islam.
	www.news.uiuc.edu /news/01/0711gaines.html (655 words)

	William Gaines biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		William Maxwell Gaines (March 1, 1922 – June 3, 1992), or Bill Gaines as he was called, was the founder of MAD Magazine but he was also noted for his efforts to create comic books of sufficient artistic quality and interest to appeal to adults.
		Gaines was the son of Max Gaines, publisher of the All-American Comics division of DC Comics and also an influential figure in the history of comics, having tested the idea of selling comics on newsstands, inspiring the creation of Wonder Woman among other achievements.
		Gaines converted MAD to a magazine to escape the strictures of the comics code (not to mention that he had run out of comic books to satirize) and went on to a long career as a publisher of satire and enemy of bombast.
	william-gaines.biography.ms (391 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: GAINES, MATTHEW (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Matthew Gaines, fl senator and Baptist preacher, was born on August 4, 1840, to a slave mother on the plantation of Martin G. Despallier in Pineville, near Alexandria, Louisiana.
		Gaines was also responsible for the passage of a bill authorizing his district to levy a special tax for construction of a new jail.
		Gaines was elected to a six-year term to the Senate, but served only four years because his seat was challenged when he was convicted on the charge of bigamy in 1873, and he subsequently relinquished his post.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/GG/fga5.html (682 words)

	Instant Classics: William Gaines - What Me Gone?
		But Gaines the mad publisher, the crazy guy with the zeppelin model in his office, was a man who forty years ago re-invented the comic book, and was brought to earth by his competitors for his trouble.
		Bill was an atheist, and I used to talk to him about this because you know it occurred to me that as atheists went Bill was a very religious atheist.
		Well, Bill Gaines was a big man, and to those of us that knew him, worked with him, lived with him, to those of us fortunate enough to call him boss, friend, husband, we know it takes a big man to house a heart as big as his was.
	www.instantclassics.com /ic_html/gaines1.html (5254 words)

	Journalism professor, students identify 'Deep Throat'
		Gaines, who won two Pulitzer Prizes as an investigative reporter for the Chicago Tribune, announced the results of their investigation at a news conference at 4 p.m.
		Gaines and his students began with a pool of potential candidates that theoretically included everyone in Washington, D.C., during the time of Watergate, and then began a wide-ranging process of elimination.
		Gaines refused to speculate on a name and continued the project, and they have since found reason to eliminate Buchanan and everyone but Fielding from the list.
	www.news.uiuc.edu /news/03/0422deepthroat.html (1153 words)

	E.C. Comics Horror (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Gaines hired a talented editor, Al Feldstein, who, in turn, brought in a group of talented—and twisted—comic artists, such as Wally Wood, Jack Davis, and Graham "Ghastly" Ingels.
		Gaines and Feldstein loved twist endings to horror stories, and this caused E.C. comic tales to deliver a real jolt to the reader.
		When confronted with one of his comic coves that showed a man with an ax holding a woman’s severed head, Gaines argued that such a cover would be in bad taste if, for example, the severed head was held higher and blood was shown dripping from it.
	www.horror-wood.com /e.c.horror.htm (1094 words)

	European and Pacific Stars & Stripes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Gaines said the attorney general was said to be a friend of an Army general in Europe who "got up in front of a group of people and told them we were tainted with Communism." The state government put MAD in the same category as all of the dirty magazines of the day.
		Gaines says the comic-book business was subject to the same intense scrutiny that was applied to baseball in the 1920s and to movies in the 1940s.
		Gaines says he misses the old days when he was an active plotter in the editorial side of his operation.
	www.stripes.com /article.asp?section=126&article=20950&archive=true (2132 words)

	Tales from the Crypt Gallery
		Bill Gaines (left) and Al Feldstein (right) enjoy lunch at one of their favorite restaurants, Patrissy's.
		Gaines would pitch story ideas - springboards - to Feldstein who would then write the story directly onto the illustration board for the artist.
		On September 14, 1954, Bill Gaines held a press conference in the EC offices to announce the death of EC's horror and crime comics.
	www.cryptdvd.com /gallery.htm (854 words)

	The Main Event: EC, MAD and Beyond: Al Feldstein
		Rex was identical to Bill except for an ear-to-ear scar that crossed at the mouth.
		We called from one of the other offices, Bill answered the phone and gave it to Anthony, saying 'It's Rex.' This snarling voice got on and yelled at him while he was there with Bill in the office.
		Gaines tried to keep them going with the "New Direction" Code-approved titles, but they were faced with the same distribution problems.
	scoop.diamondgalleries.com /scoop_article.asp?ai=1204&si=124 (2028 words)

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		Bill Gaines was initially reluctant to run the company, but was urged to do so by his mother.
		Gaines introduced a line of 'new direction' comics, but these did not prove popular, and the writing was on the wall for EC comics.
		Gaines' comments aren't entirely fair, as two of the first stories Harrison sold to EC appear to have been solo efforts, and is probably Harrison who secured the EC work for himself and Wally Wood in the first instance.
	www.iol.ie /~carrollm/hh/comics-ec-intro.htm (984 words)

	Comic Art & Graffix Gallery Virtual Museum & Encyclopedia© - Artist Biographies
		GAINES: Well, if you're excluding...I guess there's nothing left, no. I mean the...I was going to say excluding pornography, but, of course, you have the underground comics and they've been pretty pornographic for years, so I guess there's nothing left.
		GAINES: Well, the FBI is a little touchy, and we were...We put out a three dollar bill which turned out to be making change at change machines in airports.
		GAINES: A long time ago, and of course we got a terrible letter from a head of a Jewish group in Florida, who was threatening to sue and taking to Congress and everything else, and I wrote him a letter and it's in the book.
	www.comic-art.com /intervws/gaines11.htm (4024 words)

	TALES FROM THE CRYPT: From Comic Books To Television!
		When Bill and Al�s first horror title �Crypt of Terror� (1950) appeared, a minor dissatisfaction soon caused it�s title to be changed to �Tales from the Crypt� and a star was born.
		With Gaines� input, the tv show was quite successful in recreating the true spirit and irreverence of the original comics whose stories it retold faithfully each week.
		Feldstein for example, who has not been treated well at all by the Gaines faction, is very gracious in his remarks and sincere in his evaluation of the positive aspects of his and Gaines� relationship.
	www.geocities.com /jimvh_99/classic_blue2crypt.html (2340 words)

	Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Tales from the Crypt
		Gaines and Feldstein enjoyed them so much, two issues later — long before sales figures or reader response could possibly have come in — they dropped the crime stories and changed the titles of the magazines.
		Gaines and Feldstein provided the majority of the stories (with an occasional outside yarn from the likes of Ray Bradbury), and the art was done by such outstanding talents as Johnny Craig, Jack Davis, Graham Ingels, Jack Kamen and George Evans.
		There, he was put in the uncomfortable position of having to defend a cover in which a man stood over his wife's corpse, a bloody axe in one hand and her severed head hanging by its hair from the other.
	www.toonopedia.com /crypt.htm (914 words)

	GASP!
		One fortuitous day, Gaines and Feldstein succumbed to their shared love of old thriller radio programs and collaborated on two stories; "Vault of Horror" and "Crypt of Terror." Thus was born what Gaines himself called the "New Trend" in comics.
		Gaines used the success of these cash cows to fund the lesser-selling science fiction and war titles, and found himself able to produce the kinds of tales that he himself would want to read, horror and otherwise.
		Gaines used his EC titles as a forum to fight the formation of the Code, taking out full page house ads that attempted to rally his fans and supporters in the industry, but realized in a short time that his struggle was futile.
	www.fullyarticulated.com /EC.html (3913 words)

	Was Fred Fielding Deep Throat? Part 2 - Prove that he lied and you're mostly there. By Timothy Noah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Last month, former investigative reporter Bill Gaines and his journalism students at the University of Illinois identified Fred Fielding as Deep Throat, the anonymous Nixon administration source who is described, but not named, in Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's Watergate memoir, All The President's Men.
		Chatterbox examined the evidence and concluded that Gaines and Co. had made an excellent (though not conclusive) case.
		Gaines, who has cast a much wider net than Chatterbox, says he, too, has been unable to find any source on Woodward's alleged papal blessing other than Dean and Garment.
	slate.msn.com /id/2082752 (704 words)

	Comic Art & Graffix Gallery Artist Biographies - Bill Gaines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Born on March 1, 1922 in New York City, Bill was the son of Max "M.C." Gaines, creator and publisher of the very first comic books, including Famous Funnies and Carnival of Comics in 1933/34, which he packaged for department stores.
		It has been said that Bill "discovered" many of them during the EC days, but the truth would actually be that these great artists just all gravitated to EC because of the generous nature of Bill and the pleasure of working at EC.
		Inherently lazy, Bill never exercised and was said to have danced but twice in his entire life - once when he was being taught to dance and once when he went to the prom where he was supposed to dance.
	www.comic-art.com /bios-1/gaines01.htm (942 words)

	Seducers of the Innocent
		A reluctant Bill found himself heir to a bunch of ho-hum comic titles that were going nowhere but down.
		Gaines disliked the poorly illustrated books of other publishers and realized that comic books could be an art form.
		Enter Bill Gaines, alone and unsupported by his contemporaries, to face a barrage of hostile questioning from Estes Kefauver.
	www.crimeboss.com /history02-3.html (1731 words)

	Doug Gilford's Mad Cover Site -- Al Feldstein Interview
		Yes, Bill Gaines and I had differences of opinions about the future of MAD and what should be done about it, so I decided to retire.
		And Bill Gaines's personal collection of twelve mint copies of each issue of each title that he put away (and are now being sold by Sotheby's) weren't saved because he knew, but because he wanted a record for any possible questions that might arise concerning his second class mail entries.
		Feldstein, I know you've resented Bill Gaines at times and I can't blame you, but it is Harvey Kurtzman, editor of MAD during the first few years who has always stuck in my craw.
	www.collectmad.com /madcoversite/feldstein.html (1381 words)

	EC Comics - Enpsychlopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The comics were generally written by Harvey Kurtzman and Al Feldstein with assistance from Bill Gaines.
		Gaines attempted to revive a few of the science fiction based EC comics, watering down the story lines and artwork in order to conform to the newly founded Comics Code.
		Gaines waged a number of battles with the Comics Code Authority, in an attempt to keep his magazines free of censorship during the later days of EC.
	www.grohol.com /wiki/EC_Comics (1217 words)

	Supervisors' Photos and Biographies -- Placer County, Calif. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Bill was first appointed and then elected to the Roseville City Council for two terms, including four years as Mayor.
		Ted Gaines was elected as Placer County Board of Supervisor, District 4 in January 2001.
		Ted Gaines is an owner and partner of Point West Insurance Associates, which has been in the insurance business since 1952.
	www.placer.ca.gov /bos/supes.htm (1069 words)

	TIME.com Print Page: -- The Glory and Horror of EC Comics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		But Gaines, Feldstein and their artists generated a terrific line of illustrated fiction at a pace that was breakneck and brain-hemorrhaging.
		Gaines, who was dosed with dexedrine for his diet, began his testimony with the bold statement, �I was the first publisher in the United States to publish horror comics.
		Gaines knew this would kill off his books — they were the �Alien,� the �Kill Bill,� the �Evil Dead� of their day — and refused to join.
	www.time.com /time/columnist/printout/0,8816,631203,00.html (5301 words)

	Johnny Craig
		The younger Gaines soon hired Al Feldstein as his main editor and the three men — Bill Gaines, Feldstein and Craig — formed the nucleus as the line turned towards crime and horror comics.
		As Bill Gaines developed his three best-selling horror comics — Vault of Horror, Tales from the Crypt and The Haunt of Fear — Craig became an important contributor.
		Finally, Gaines was forced to cancel all his publications except for Mad, and Craig — who didn't fit with the humor publication — decided the time had come to get out of comics.
	www.povonline.com /cols/COL365.htm (2424 words)

	BILLS SPONSORED BY- GAINES - 2002 Regular Session
		Status as of March 22, 2002: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Judiciary
		Status as of April 2, 2002: Bill is in the House - Unfavorable Appropriations
		Status as of February 28, 2002: Bill is in the House - Withdrawn Appropriations
	mlis.state.md.us /2002rs/sponsors/Gaines.htm (284 words)

	78(R) HR 991 - Enrolled version - Bill Text (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		WHEREAS, The retirement of Bill Gaines of Montgomery from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice concludes a distinguished 21-year career; and WHEREAS, Mr.
		Gaines intends to maintain his polygraph services office in Conroe, and he will undoubtedly enjoy spending extra time with his beloved wife, Debbie, and their daughter, Treasure; and WHEREAS, For more than two decades, Mr.
		Gaines as an expression of high regard by the Texas House of Representatives.
	www.capitol.state.tx.us /tlo/78R/billtext/HR00991F.HTM (115 words)

	Reading Room Index to the Comic Art Collection
		Gaines, M. Call no.: BS551.2.G34 1943 ----------------------------------------------------- Gaines, M. (Maxwell Charles), 1896-1947.
		Gaines, M. Call no.: BS551.2.G34 1947 ----------------------------------------------------- Gaines, M. (Maxwell Charles), 1896-1947.
		Feldstein, Albert B. Gaines, William M. Tales from the Crypt.
	www.lib.msu.edu /comics/rri/grri/gain.htm (3856 words)

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