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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: EC Comics
		EC Comics (Entertaining Comics) were all published from the late 1940s until around 1956, when the Comics Code Authority whitewashed all comic books to remove all themes of horror and violence.
		EC Comics were superior to other comics of the 1950s because of a higher quality of writing and artwork, and they were widely imitated by other comics publishers.
		EC Comics, nearly half a century after the end came to this remarkable collective of talent and vitality, still holds a role of sacrificial lamb to a hostile world, rather unique in the folklore of comics publishing.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/EC-Comics (2894 words)

	Welcome To EC Comics Online!
		Psychiatrist Fredric Wertham and Senator Estes Kefauver's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency attacked horror comics as causes of the rise in juvenile delinquency and crimes by minors.
		These comic books were accused of having no redeeming value to society and were effectively banned by the actions of these groups in creating the Comics Code.
		It’s the perfect addition to any comics library and is an absolute "must have" for even the casual EC enthusiast.
	www.eccrypt.com (732 words)

	Boneyard 06 - The Martyrdom of EC Comics (Dec 2001)
		EC Comics, nearly half a century after the end came to this remarkable collective of talent and vitality, still holds a role of sacrificial lamb to a hostile world, rather unique in the folklore of comics publishing.
		EC pushed the standard for comics color, typically of a flat and not particularly dense type in comics of that period.
		Since the inception of comics, some folks had seen them as a corrosive factor in the transmission of culture and ethics; by the 1920s, and perhaps even in the last years of the previous century, accusers of the medium had accused comics of having a coarsening effect on readers.
	www.fortunecity.com /tatooine/niven/142/tomb/tm06.html (2987 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > EC Comics
		Entertaining Comics, was headed by William Gaines but is better known by its publishing name of EC Comics.
		The firm was a publisher of comic books specializing in crime, horror, war, and science-fiction comics from the 1940s through the 1950s.
		After the comic book industry imploded during the 1950s in the wake of the hysteria caused by Dr. Frederick Wertham's book Seduction of the Innocent (and, just as important, a shakeup in the distribution companies who sold comic books and pulp magazines in America), most of EC Comics' titles were cancelled.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/ec/EC_Comics (463 words)

	EC Comics (Site not responding. Last check: )
		EC Comics launches its "new trend" of horror comics signaling a new era in comics.
		EC's horror, science fiction, and war comics remain unsurpassed, and the early EC issues of Mad vitally influenced a generation of humorists and cartoonists.
		Comics, especially the crime/horror titles pioneered by EC, were not lacking in gruesome images; Wertham reproduced these extensively, pointing out what he saw as recurring morbid themes such as "injury to the eye".
	www.jahsonic.com /ECComics.html (1558 words)

	EC Comics
		After the comic book industry imploded during the 1950s in the wake of the hysteria caused by Dr. Fredric Wertham's book Seduction of the Innocent (and, just as important, a shakeup in the distribution companies who sold comic books and pulp magazines in America), most of EC Comics' titles were cancelled.
		One notable incident involved his threatening the members of the Comics Code board with a lawsuit after being ordered to alter the climactic scene of a science fiction story, so that one of the characters would not be seen sweating.
		When EC found a large audience of young readers embracing its humor comics Tales Calculated to Drive You MAD and \Panic, the company abandoned its other titles and focused exclusively on publishing MAD Magazine in magazine form, which proved to be more than sufficient to sustain the business.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/e/ec/ec_comics.html (479 words)

	Ec Comics St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture - Find Articles
		EC Comics was arguably the most innovative and controversial company in the history of mainstream comic-book publishing.
		EC's publications featured some of the cleverest writing and most accomplished artwork ever to appear in comic books, and attracted a fanatically enthusiastic following; but they also provoked harsh criticism from those who charged that they degraded the morals of the nation's youth.
		It was, therefore perhaps unsurprising that EC was unable to survive the crisis that engulfed the comic-book industry in 1954-55.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_tov/ai_2419100389 (923 words)

	Eddie Campbell interview
		So I wrote about the geniuses of the comic strip, Segar, Kurtzman, Will Eisner and Jules Feiffer were the ones I did, although the last one didn't appear, the magazine went bust and I didn't get paid for the last one.
		They were fl and white comics, so suddenly people wanted fl and white comics, without thinking that things sold because they've got some integral quality about them that makes them desirable.
		So I had all these Harrier comics that I'd done on a smallish scale and I used to send them in to Dark Horse, because Dark Horse were the only publisher that had ridden over that slump, and in '89 they were doing really well.
	www.tabula-rasa.info /AusComics/EddieCampbell.html (4121 words)

	Profiles 38 - Science Fiction Comics (Sep 2000)
		EC excelled in the form, but DC did not do too badly, thanks to the influence of stalwarts like Julius Schwartz; Atlas and Marvel pursued the form; and generic publishers too numerous to count contributed their own versions here.
		Many of the best science fiction comics died in the extinction of EC Comics, leaving talent either to jump ship and move to other publishers and genres or to go down with the EC ship.
		Even as EC faded from a comics scene that would not give it due credit until later decades, DC and Atlas moved into the remaining science fiction comics market and published titles that had life spans sometimes in the decade range.
	www.fortunecity.com /tatooine/niven/142/profiles/pro38.html (1766 words)

	Images - Tales from the Crypt
		Many writers and filmmakers (such as Stephen King and Robert Zemeckis) have revealed their debt to EC and talked about reading the comics by flashlight under their bed covers when they were kids--for the grisly, often bloody material in EC Comics made parents cringe (and sometimes become indignant).
		In today's comic book world, which is virtually overwhelmed by superheroes, the beautiful and eerie work of the EC artists reveal a whole different type of comic book that sadly is a rare product on today's comic book shelves.
		The fall of EC amidst cries for comic book censorship makes for a fascinating and tragic story, but luckily EC Comics have survived, thanks to William Gaines' habit of saving all the original artwork, and now the story can be relived by everyone.
	www.imagesjournal.com /issue02/reviews/tales.htm (826 words)

	EC Comics - Don Markstein's Toonopedia
		It was during the New Trend era that EC made stars of artists such as Wallace Wood, Jack Davis, Al Wiliamson and several others.
		Comics were increasingly coming under fire — and EC, whose grisly horror and crime comics led the pack (Fox having gone out of business), was a prime target.
		The old EC stories are now owned by Gemstone Publishing, a division of Diamond Comics Distributors, which currently maintains a virtual monopoly in the comic book Direct Market — and which still brings them out in new editions from time to time.
	www.toonopedia.com /ec.htm (1072 words)

	DC Comics - Don Markstein's Toonopedia
		And its Action Comics was the first to feature a superhero — Superman, who quickly became the first hit character to emerge from the fledgling comic book medium, and the first character to star in his own regularly-published comic book.
		Unlike most comics publishers, however, DC never put out the sort of gruesome horror and crime comics that brought on the protest that led to the formation of the Comics Code Authority.
		DC Comics may or may not be the "Comics Publisher of the Century" — but considering its size, its staying power and its corporate connections, it's certainly one of the century's biggest successes in comics.
	www.toonopedia.com /dc.htm (1228 words)

	Comic Art & Graffix Gallery© your place on the web for comics...
		Among his awards were the National Cartoonist Society awards for comic books in 1960 and 1961 and in 1970 he won the Shazam Award for his work on DC titles.
		The Comic Art and Graffix Gallery website was launched in 1995 to give fans a place to find interesting history and biographies of comic artists and other comic professionals.
		We are currently asking comic professionals who would like to have their biographies listed on this site to please submit their information as well as some sample image links and photographs for inclusion in this resource.
	www.comic-art.com (914 words)

	Comic Book Legal Defense Fund
		As a result, the most innovative company of the decade, EC Comics, is forced to cancel most of its line.
		In 1971, the Comics Code is revamped a bit to allow the resurgence of horror comics.
		The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund was founded in 1986 as a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of First Amendment rights for members of the comics community.
	www.cbldf.org /history.shtml (497 words)

	ComicsOnCDRom.com .. Golden Age Comic Books on CDRom for your PC to read.. Pulps Covers on CDRom
		Golden Age Comic Books on CDRom for your PC to read..
		At 95 years old, he was the last of the great golden age Superman artists and was one of the most heralded cover artists of DC during the early forties.
		Born in 1911, he went to work for DC Comics in 1939 and eventually become the artist who did Superman stories in Action Comics.
	www.comicsoncdrom.com (524 words)

	Gemstone reprints hardcover EC Comics Collections
		Previously, their only availability outside of expensive originals was in fl and white collections or single issue reprints with the issue orders all screwed up.
		Well, Gemstone has taken it upon themselves to reprint these landmark tales of terror in a format befitting their quality: recolored, remastered hardcover editions.
		They’ll be similar to the DC Comics Archive Editions or Marvel Masterworks Editions already available and will cost roughly the same, about $50 bucks a pop.
	forevergeek.com /comics/gemstone_reprints_hardcover_ec_comics_collections.php (178 words)

	The Horror of EC Comics - Monsters A Go-Go
		The Horror of EC Comics - Monsters A Go-Go n 1947, William Gaines inherited the EC Comic chain when his father M.C. Gaines was killed in a boating accident.
		Comic book artist and writer Al Feldstein edited the horror comics and wrote most of the stories with plot input from Gaines.
		But, 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.monstersagogo.com /features/ec_comics.html (505 words)

	EC Comics Summary
		EC always claimed to be "proudest of our science fiction titles," and Weird Science and Weird Fantasy were certainly a step up from the standard space opera tales found in Planet Comics.
		EC's most common 'house plot' was to take an ordinary situation and turn it on its head in gruesome fashion, often times as poetic justice for a character doing something wrong.
		During the 1950s, the comic book industry was drastically altered in the wake of a mass wave of public and official protest about the nature of much of the matter in the stories, as described in Dr. Fredric Wertham's book Seduction of the Innocent.
	www.bookrags.com /EC_Comics (3087 words)

	ComicBookWebsites.com - Comic Book History - Wahoo! - The Comic Book Website Directory
		For years he had believed comics to be a major cause for the delinquency of the nation's youth and a vocal critic.
		He claims that the difference between comics and pornography for adults was that one was meant to attract perverts, the other, comics, was meant create them.
		Within a year however, all EC titles had failed and all that was left was Mad, which became Mad Magazine with No. 24 in order to escape the Comic Code entirely.
	www.dereksantos.com /comicpage/presilver.html (1577 words)

	EC Comics
		Have any of you heard of EC comics?it was a comic company back in the 1950`s that put out some horror comics,I`m not into horror stuff but these comics are cool.
		The EC stuff is cool though,too scary for the 50`s,that`s why they went under.I have 3 double sized issues,includes 2 original issues from the early 50`s in each one,reprinted in 1990.
		EC titles have been reprinted in both the late 70's and early 90's by a company called Gladstone.
	www.freakscene.net /smf/index.php?topic=3094.0 (296 words)

	Amazon.com: The EC Archives: Shock Suspenstories Volume 1 (The Ec Archives): Books: Al Feldstein,Wally Wood,Jack ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		EC was unafraid of tackling subjects like racism and blind patriotism (no pun intended -- you'll get it later) and mix it up with unapologetic horror where a murdering husband ends up eating his wife, or a sci-fi tale where people are skinned and worn like fur.
		EC's founder, Max Gaines is really the father of the modern comic, having been the first one to devise the idea of printing newspaper comic strip re-prints into a magazine format.
		EC was forced to cancel their horror titles and shift it's focus to dramatic titles like "MD" and "Extra!", as well as the humor title Mad which was later changed to magazine format.
	www.amazon.com /EC-Archives-Shock-Suspenstories-Ec/dp/188847257X (2874 words)

	E.C. Comics Horror (Site not responding. Last check: )
		E.C. Comics were originally Educational Comics, ironically exactly the kind of worthwhile, high-minded comics any teacher or school principal would approve.
		He hired cutting-edge comic artists, and published tough, explicit, and gory comic fare—Crime SuspenseStories, with criminals at their cruelest, Frontline Combat, with war at its bloodiest, Weird Science, with sci-fi at its craziest, and The Haunt Of Fear, with ghouls at their…well, ghouliest.
		E.C. comics were too visceral for the Code, and without the Code distributors wouldn’t carry E.C. comics…as a result, the Vault Of Horror was sealed forever.
	www.horror-wood.com /e.c.horror.htm (1092 words)

	GASP!
		Part of what made EC attractive to readers was this fan-creator interplay; whereas most other publishers didn't allow artists and writers to sign their work, EC was a proponent of giving credit where credit was due.
		They complained that crime and horror comics glorified violence and would surely be the downfall of American youth (much to the delight of young readers everywhere who were even happier to part with their allowance for such forbidden fruit).
		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 (3910 words)

	The long, gory life of EC Comics: why the Crypt-Keeper never dies Reason - Find Articles
		Although EC's brief reign came to an end amid Senate hearings and industry self-censorship, Gaines and his stable of artists and writers created a legacy that continues to inspire American pop culture, in no small part because of EC's notoriety.
		EC'S lasting appeal is the subject of Chip Selby's slick and entertaining documentary Tales From the Crypt: From Comic Books to Television (available from cryptdvd.com) and Grant Geissman's lavishly illustrated coffee table book Foul Play!: The Art and Artists of the Notorious 1950s E.C. Comics!
		Confusing anecdote with data, he argued that all of the juvenile delinquents he studied read comics, and that comics therefore were responsible for their delinquency.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1568/is_2_37/ai_n15975417 (806 words)

	The HORROR of it all!
		In the 1940s comic book publishing was such a prosperous game that many companies sprang up and hired anyone that "…could just draw your name."---(Harry Harrison, 1950s horror comics writer and artist).
		When William M. Gaines and Al Feldstein formed EC comics (Entertaining Comics) in 1950, little did they know of the mayhem they were to cause that would effect the industry for years to come.
		EC comics’ ‘help wanted’ advertisement from a 1950s Writer’s Digest magazine: "You should know this about our horror books.
	www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com /soapbox/103264795945099.htm (1517 words)

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