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	EC Comics -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Entertaining Comics was headed by (Click link for more info and facts about William Gaines) William Gaines but is better known by its publishing name of EC Comics.
		The firm was a (The proprietor of a newspaper) publisher of (A magazine devoted to comic strips) comic books specializing in crime, horror, war and science-fiction from the (The decade from 1940 to 1949) 1940s through the (The decade from 1950 to 1959) 1950s.
		The firm, first known as Educational Comics, was owned by (Click link for more info and facts about Max Gaines) Max Gaines, who published Picture Stories from the Bible and biographies of important figures from science and history in comic book form.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/ec/ec_comics1.htm (1292 words)

	The 11th Hour Web Magazine - Features - Four Color Wonders
		Comics in the 1930s and 1940s were considered in many ways an extension of the pulp magazines of the early 20th century, and in addition to costumed superheroes and men of mystery, also included crime stories, epic fantasies, and adventurers.
		Wertham claimed that comics glorified violence and were the source of moral decline in America's youth, not to mention "sexually aggressive in an abnormal way." His most damning claim, however, was that "comic book reading was a distinct influencing factor in the case of every single delinquent or disturbed child" he had studied.
		However, despite a surge in public interest stories slamming comics, and parental uproar, the industry itself was not largely affected, and continued to churn out crime and horror comics By 1953 over 500 comic books could be found on the market and comics sold 60 million copies a month.
	www.the11thhour.com /archives/122000/features/comics1.html (892 words)

	American comics
		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.
		These comics are often the produced by a single person, as opposed to mainstream comics, which are usually produced by a team including a writer, a penciler, an inker, a letterer, and an editor.
		The initial wave of underground comics was written by and for the 1960s counter-culture and psychedelic movement, and a number of independent comics of this era were humorous (and unquestionably adult-oriented) stories about hippies and rebels who enjoyed the freedom of drugs, while putting up with persecution by evil police officers.
	www.jahsonic.com /AmericanComics.html (2785 words)

	EC Comics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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.
		One notable incident involved his threatening the members of the Comics Code Authority 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.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/E/EC-Comics.htm (1226 words)

	Footnote Comics : X-Statix
		Wertham began examining comic books as a result of his work with juvenile delinquents, and he said his opinions were based on clinical investigations in 1945 and 1946.
		Comic books were not the only medium to face restrictions, and the Supreme Court in 1948 declared unconstitutional a New York law that made it illegal to publish a magazine made up primarily of criminal news, Winters v.
		Entertaining Comics was started by Gaines' father and started off publishing humor comics and Picture Stories from the Bible, but William Gaines expanded the company's range to the horror genre ("I did not start crime; I started horror," he testified).
	www.newsaic.com /fncxstatixindex.html (3806 words)

	Ninth Art - Comics and Consoles
		Comics and videogames are often held up as brothers in arms due to their shared disdain by the masses.
		Comics came into being the second a proto-picture was juxtaposed with proto-writing.
		Comics is a form that generally - though not necessarily - cause a response in its audience through narrative.
	www.ninthart.com /printdisplay.php?article=65 (1459 words)

	E.C. Comics Horror (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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.
		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.
		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)

	I've Been Thinking About Comics
		Their catalogue included some local comics and the idea that locals were making entertaining comics made an impression on me. I would bye cheap US comics that I saw in bookshops and slowly developed an interest in a few books - Mainly the comedy of Keith Giffen's work on Justice League International.
		With comic creators having people wander past your work in a gallery can be a buzz and get some publicity, but those aren't the aim with the medium - it's about getting your comics read and having those people want to read the next issue.
		The current relegated status of comics in New Zealand, Australia and the US is because the comic medium became too closely associated with one particular genre: superheros.
	www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com /smallpress/108911312238541.htm (1683 words)

	EC Comics
		Nearly 50 years after they were crushed by moral guardians outraged by their Grand Guignol excesses, the genre comic books published by EC Comics still enthrall readers who grew up with them and generations of younger fans, too.
		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".
		William Gaines, head of EC Comics among whose best selling titles were Crime Suspenstories, The Vault of Horror and The Crypt of Terror, complained that clauses prohibiting titles with the words "Terror", "Horror", or "Crime", as well as the clause banning vampires, werewolves and zombies, all seemed targeted to put EC out of business.
	www.jahsonic.com /ECComics.html (1558 words)

	List of Entertaining Comics publications - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		EC Comics was a major publisher of comic books in the 1940s and 1950s.
		The letters EC stood for both Entertaining Comics and the earlier Educational Comics.
		EC's Pre-Trend titles are those published by Max Gaines and his son William Gaines, who took over the family business after his father's death in 1947.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Entertaining_Comics_publications (145 words)

	Powell's Books - Catwoman: Nine Lives of a Feline Fatale (Catwoman) by Bill Finger
		An entertaining volume that spans the entire career of Batman's most alluring nemesis, this book reprints nine of Catwoman's most significant adventures, including her first felonious appearance as well as her most memorable battle with the Dark Knight.
		From her first appearance in the 1940s as a burglar to the high camp of the 1950s and '60s to the varied characterizations of the last 20 years, Catwoman has always added a touch of glamour to the gritty proceedings in Gotham City.
		But all along, she's the subject of very affectionate comics, such as the woman-scorned tales of the '60s, or the 1986 story 'A Town on the Night,' which is entirely devoted to a Bat and Cat date.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=7-1401202136-0 (336 words)

	The Mad Magazine Cover Site
		Most of these Entertaining Comics were of the horror, science fiction, war and crime variety with titles like Vault of Horror, Weird Science, Frontline Combat and Crime Suspenstories.
		For two years Kurtzman parodied the comics and other media in the 23 Mad comics that followed while Feldstein continued his horror and science fiction mayhem.
		A comics code was established and required publishers to submit works for rating before they could hit the stands.
	www.collectmad.com /madcoversite/history.html (995 words)

	Articles - EC Comics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It was a publisher of comic books specializing in crime, horror, humor, war and science-fiction from the 1940s through the 1950s.
		In the 1950's the comic book industry imploded 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.
		Also there was a shakeup in the distribution companies who sold comic books and pulp magazines in America.
	gaple.com /articles/EC_Comics?mySession=5b91985cd54ed3b744447e60b1c0... (1283 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 comics were the sole reason for any type of unusual sexual acts in children.
		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.
	www.dereksantos.com /comicpage/presilver.html (1577 words)

	Tales from the Crypt Gallery
		When William M. Gaines took over Entertaining Comics (EC) after his father's death in 1947, the company was already $100,000 in debt.
		EC's comics are famous for both their writing and their art, which featured the work of some of the finest illustrators in the field.
		Back in the 1950's, when TV was still in its infancy, comic books were the main form of visual entertainment for children.
	www.cryptdvd.com /gallery.htm (854 words)

	Sequential Tart: Mike Norton -- Come a Little Closer (vol VII/iss 8/August 2004)
		A favorite of fans with a taste for unpretentious and entertaining indy comics, Mike has been involved in a number of projects that serve to highlight his deft and ever-growing artistic skills.
		In a medium like comics, with its blend of the written word and the penciled page, there's a symbiosis between the two.
		There are comics out there right now (a lot of them quite popular!) that are mostly pinups with lots of copy making up the difference.
	www.sequentialtart.com /archive/aug04/mnorton.shtml (2605 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)

	snarkout: august 2002
		Gaines went on to found All-American Comics (later merged into DC; a number of All-American's titles, penned by comic book pioneer Gardner Fox, are still available today in slightly different forms).
		The "Voxpop" splash screen serves as a sendup of Salon (of course the alternate universe's Salon would focus on Zawahiri's danger fetish) and as a way of introducing the story; since we know that Farley's war is largely being fought remotely, over the net, it also serves as a rather elegant infodump.
		There's nothing wrong with wish fulfillment in science fiction or in comics; in the real world, heavy pre-natal doses of radiation rarely make one into, say, a roller-skating disco superheroine.
	www.snarkout.org /archives/2002/08 (1717 words)

	The Greatest Comics - The Crypt of Terror #17 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		EC Comics publisher William M. Gaines and writer Al Feldstein set out to bring horror to the comic industry in a big way.
		Imposing rules on what may or may not be depicted in comic books succeeded in fending off government censorship, but for most publishers it was too late.
		The arrival of television was bad enough; now, with the reputation of all comics tarnished by the hearings, the majority of publishers went out of business, and comic sales dropped 75 per cent in less than a year.
	www.geocities.com /mbrown123/crypt17.html (682 words)

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		EC Comics was founded in 1945 by M.C. 'Max' Gaines as 'Educational Comics,' and produced titles such as Picture Stories from the Bible, Picture Stories from American History, and Tiny Tot Comics.
		These early comics are part of what is known in EC history as the 'pre-trend' titles; it is with the later 'new trend' titles that EC comics really found its own identity and rose to notoriety.
		Gaines introduced a line of 'new direction' comics, but these did not prove popular, and the writing was on the wall for EC comics.
	www.iol.ie /~carrollm/hh/comics-ec-intro.htm (984 words)

	RPGnet: Review of Random Order Comics and Games (Issue #2) (Printable Version)
		Random Order Comics and Games is the brainchild of Random Order Creations (http://www.randomordercreations.com), a small-press publishing house headed up by James V. West (best known as the creator of the acclaimed free-press RPG "The Pool").
		The longest of this issue's short comics is a nine page story which gives us out first indepth look at both the fantasy world of Hof and one of its better known denizens, the sell-sword Zarp from the city of Seapath.
		If you're looking for an entertaining and innovative RPG publication, but are a little strapped for cash, you simply still cannot go wrong with a subscription to Random Order Comics and Games.
	www.rpg.net /reviews/view-printable.phtml?reviewNumber=9276 (1281 words)

	Sequential Tart - A Comics Industry Web Zine (Volume II, Issue 11, December 1999)
		Joe Field, the owner, is well-known among the comics community and I have heard his store praised many times both on and off the net.
		I've seen a relatively stable long-term market for entertaining comics become a relatively stable long-term market for entertaining comics and comics compilations (trade paperbacks, call 'em what you like.) And I've seen that relatively long-term market for entertaining comics and compilations interrupted by the speculator-driven, unhealthy, greedy instability of the '92-'95 period.
		The direct market, as it was born in the 1970s, saved comics temporarily, only to severely hamstring the business of comics much later.
	www.sequentialtart.com /archive/dec99/retailer_1299.shtml (2527 words)

	3dskdg.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As the inventor of 3-D comics, Leonard Maurer, in partnership with his brother Norman and cartoonist Joe Kubert, formed the American Sterographic Corporation to license the 3-D Illustereo process to comics publishers.
		As the publisher of "Three Dimension Comics," and under license for 3-D Illustereo, Archer St. John converted his whole line of comic books to 3-D. "While all this was going on," recounts Leonard Maurer, "I did what I could to prepare the way for licensing, and had already approached several publishers.
		Gaines was the publisher of the Entertaining Comics (EC) line that included MAD Comics as well as many controversial horror and crime comic books.
	www.ray3dzone.com /3dskdg.html (573 words)

	Don Markstein's Toonopedia: EC Comics
		It started in 1935, when he packaged the very first modern-style American comic book, and continued with helping to launch Dell, one of the most successful of the early publishers, a year later.
		In 1945, he sold most of his comics properties (including The Flash, Green Lantern and The Justice Society of America) to DC Comics, retaining only two — Picture Stories from The Bible and Picture Stories from World History.
		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.
	www.toonopedia.com /ec.htm (1027 words)

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