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	Max Gaines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Max Gaines (born Maxwell Charles Gaines in the 1890's; died August 20, 1947) was one of the most influential figures in the creation of the comic book
		At Lake Placid in the summer of 1947, Max Gaines died in a boating accident.
		His 25-year-old son William Gaines inherited the company and changed titles to launch a line of science fiction and horror comics and, most famously, Mad.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Max_Gaines (225 words)

	Max Gaines
		Max Gaines (Max Charles Gaines) was the most influential figure in the creation of the comic book.
		Gaines literally created the first four-color side stiched newsprint pamphlet for Dell Publishing[?] in the early 1930s, thus inventing the format still used to this day.
		Gaines was also publisher of Educational Comics, which concentrated on Bible Stories and funny animals[?].
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ma/Max_Gaines.html (188 words)

	William Gaines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bill Gaines was the son of Max Gaines, who as publisher of the All-American Comics division of DC Comics was also an influential figure in the history of comics.
		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.
		DeBartolo recounts Gaines' generosity to writers (the Mad trips), his insistence on Mad's "cheap" image (at one point paying double the amount to keep Mad on low-quality paper although it was in short supply) and his offbeat methods for running a magazine.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Gaines (1459 words)

	The Mad Magazine Cover Site
		Max is credited with originating the idea of assembling newspaper comic strips into the comic book form with 1934's Famous Funnies.
		Max's ties to DC ended when he sold his shares, parted company and put that conscience into his new E.C. business.
		Gaines was forced to defend his livelihood, but the compelling testimony of "experts" like Frederic Wertham whose book, Seduction of the Innocent, painted a bleak portrait of the harmful effects of Gaines' graphic comics on children.
	www.collectmad.com /madcoversite/history.html (995 words)

	EC Comics
		The firm, first known as Educational Comics, was owned by Max Gaines, who published Picture Stories from the Bible and biographies of important figures from science and history in comic book form.
		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 Code Authority, in an attempt to keep his magazines free of censorship during the later days of EC.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ec/EC_Comics.html (438 words)

	Invisible Heroes - Hero
		It’s 1933, the lowest point in America’s Great Depression, when Max Gaines loses his job as a novelties salesman and is forced to crowd into his mother’s house with his wife, Jessie, and their two small children.
		Max persuades Eastern Color Printing to take a chance on his idea and the first American comic book is born.
		The comic book industry was born on a gray afternoon in the dusty attic of Max Gaines’ mother when he caught himself smiling at some old funny papers during the depths of the Great Depression.
	www.invisibleheroes.com /hero.asp?issue=201 (542 words)

	EC Comics - TheBestLinks.com - Comic books, Humor, Horror fiction, MAD Magazine, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Max Gaines was virtually the inventor of the comic book form.
		William 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.
		William Gaines waged a number of battles with the Comics Code, in an attempt to keep his magazines free of censorship during the later days of EC.
	www.thebestlinks.com /EC_Comics.html (516 words)

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		Max Gaines was killed in a boating accident in 1947, and control of the company passed to his son, William M. 'Bill' Gaines.
		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)

	Ruth & Max
		Max surprised us both with how well he did in class, and before I knew it I was setting goals along with all the Golden Retrievers and Shelties in our training class.
		Max was ranked as one of the top Bernese in obedience that year, something I had not even dreamed of.
		Max didn't like to retrieve, and he was particularly talented at spitting the dumbbell as far away as possible.
	homepage.mac.com /ptolx_1/bmd/records/bmdud/MaxRuth.html (1691 words)

	snarkout archives: August 02
		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).
		When Max Gaines died young, his son William inherited EC, then having largely abandoned the educational comics game to become a publisher of funny animal books.
		Gaines doesn't seem to have been terribly interested in the company until Feldstein came along, but the two seem to have gotten along like a house on fire.
	www.snarkout.org /archives/archive-082002.html (1705 words)

	FBI File of William M. Gaines, of Mad Magazine and EC Fame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In 1937, Max was partly responsible for the start of the Superman series, was responsible for encouraging the development of Wonder Woman, and by 1943 he had developed a series of successful comic books under the DC name.
		Gaines volunteered to testify on behalf of the industry, but was taken aback by the tone of the questions he got.
		Two years later, the FBI followed through on the Army's request and asked the Attorney General whether the comics violated the law, but their request was probably moot, since by this time the Korean War was nearly over, and almost all of the war comics had ceased publication.
	www.talkaboutcomicbooks.com /group/alt.comics/messages/15253.html (1322 words)

	all about arie kaplan
		FDR was inaugurated, Hitler became chancellor of Germany, television was patented, and an unemployed Jewish novelty salesman named Max Gaines (née Max Ginzberg) was pondering how on earth he would be able to feed his wife Jessie and their two young children, who were living with him at his mother's house in the Bronx.
		Max's son, Bill Gaines, a 25-year-old NYU student, took charge of EC comics, at the urging of his mother.
		Gaines was the only comic-book publisher willing to testify, but due to the effects of a strong cold medicine, his performance on the witness stand was less than stellar.
	www.ariekaplan.com /kingscomicspart1.htm (4347 words)

	The Greatest Comics - The Crypt of Terror #17 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		· When the U.S. Senate hauled Gaines on the carpet to explain the merits of his comics, he defended a comic that showed a woman's dismembered head on its cover, arguing that the artist was careful to hide the stump of her body's bloodied neck in the background.
		Gaines himself was called before a Senate hearing to defend his company's work as escapist entertainment that did nothing to encourage bad behaviour in children.
		Gaines himself tried to conform to the Code, but eventually he stopped publishing comics, including Tales from the Crypt, and turned the fledgling Mad into a fl-and-white magazine, which exempted it from the strict rules imposed by the CCA.
	www.geocities.com /mbrown123/crypt17.html (682 words)

	WONDERLAND • The Ultimate Wonder Woman Site
		She is Wonder Woman, and her creator was a remarkable man. By the time he was asked to be a consultant by Max Gaines's new comic book company, William Moulton Marsden was already well-known as a psychologist and writer.
		Gaines wanted Dr. Marsden's ideas about how comics might be made appealing to a female audience.
		Max Gaines looked at the finished product and made a place for it on his publishing schedule.
	www.wonderland-site.com /html/mags/books00061.htm (579 words)

	Instant Classics: William Gaines Memorial Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		9) A much envied tradition that began in 1960 with a trip Gaines and staffers made to beseech their lone subscriber in Haiti to reconsider his decision not to renew.
		Each year, contributors with sufficient sales and staff members are invited to accompany Gaines abroad, first to the Caribbean, and, from 1966, to every continent with a restaurant.
		Documents suggest the committee had already decided to browbeat the industry into squashing Gaines in particular, and other publishers of material which, while not remarkable when compared to the rest of popular culture of the time, still offended the personal tastes of the committee members and staff.
	www.instantclassics.com /ic_html/gaines_notes.html (1023 words)

	TIME.com Print Page: -- The Glory and Horror of EC Comics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		“Max Gaines is rightly credited as the Father of the Comic Book,” writes Digby Diehl in “Tales from the Crypt: The Official Archives.” By the mid-40s Max had his own company, which he called Educational Comics; it ran a line of illustrated Bible and American history stories.
		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)

	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 (3910 words)

	Don Markstein's Toonopedia: EC Comics
		Max Gaines, EC's founder, had a truly remarkable career in comics.
		It was he who, in 1952, convinced Gaines to publish Mad, EC's longest lasting and best known contribution to American culture.
		Gaines continued to publish Mad until 1961, when he sold it to Premier Industries.
	www.toonopedia.com /ec.htm (1027 words)

	Fine Books & Collections Magazine
		Sales of E.C.’s titles were tepid, and the company was in the red when Gaines died in an accident in 1947.
		His son Bill Gaines, who was studying to be a chemistry teacher, reluctantly took over the family business.
		Gaines testified before a Senate subcommittee, which targeted E.C. as the offender par exemplar.
	www.finebooksmagazine.com /issue/0305/book_review.phtml (1264 words)

	Bookview, issue 194, Wm.Tienken
		On August 20, 1947, Max Gaines was killed in a boating accident.
		Not only was Bill Gaines building an empire, he was laying the foundation for what would become the most fanatic cult in the history of the industry.
		Gaines horror line was dead and he had to inaugurate a new line of comic books.
	members.aol.com /wmtienken/issue194.html (4230 words)

	CHS: Comics: Heroes, Heartthrobs & Horrors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Max Gaines (founder of EC Comics), Leverett Gleason (publisher of Comic House and other titles, and creator of the golden age Daredevil) and many other future industry creators are all brought in to work under Wildenberg's supervision.
		In 1945, Gaines sells all of his comic book properties to DC with the exception of two.
		In 1947, Max Gaines dies in a boating accident and EC is taken over by his son William M. Gaines.
	www.chs.org /comics/eastern.htm (2540 words)

	Mad Tv Parody
		William M. Gaines, born in 1922, was the son of Max Gaines, publisher of comic books under the banner of "EC" or "Educational Comics." When Max died in a boating accident in 1947,; William inherited the family business.
		The upshot of all this unwelcome attention on the industry was the formation of the Comics Code Authority, which Gaines refused to join, but which enacted a ban against certain words in comics, words such as "horror," "terror," and "crime," words which provided Gaines' EC with 80 percent of its profits.
		Even without Kurtzman and Gaines, MAD continued to be popular at the end of the twentieth century, delighting new generations of youngsters who eventually grow up--unlike MAD, the perpetual adolescent of periodicals.
	www.electronicweekly.co.uk /tv/mad_tv_parody.html (1640 words)

	Comic Books and Their Adventures
		Max C. Gaines was one of the early giants of the 1930s comic book industry.
		Gaines went on to launch All-American Comics, Flash Comics, and Sensation Comics before he founded his own company, EC (Educational Comics), which specialized in Bible Stories.
		It was Max C. Gaines, the father, who brought "Superman" to Dell's publisher, Harry Donenfield.
	www.comic-book-collection-made-easy.com /comic-books.html (1309 words)

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	www.gaines.com /store/Action/014555info.html (354 words)

	The First Green Lantern
		Gaines senior had been hired by National/DC executive Harry Donefeld to start a new comics line under the All-American imprint.
		It was an arrangement born out of necessity inasmuch as Gaines had the considerable advantage, during this wartime period, of owning important contracts for paper supplies.
		By 1944 Max had grown tired of his arrangement with DC and opted for a buy-out, selling his part of the business, paper contracts and all, for a sum in excess of half a million dollars.
	www.stevestiles.com /grlantrn.htm (1154 words)

	William Gaines books ; 0743459105 Misspelled: william gaines wiliam gianes willaim illiam wlliam willam willim willia ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Max Gaines (Max Charles Gaines) was the most influential figure in the creation of the comic book.Gaines created the publishing format and distribution through newsstands as well as the first comic featuring a single character, as well as inventing many characters.
		Gaines literally created the first four-color side stitched newsprint pamphlet for Dell Publishing in the early 1930s, thus inventing the format still used to this day.
		Gaines was also publisher of Educational Comics, which concentrated on Bible Stories and funny animals.Gaines left Educational Comics to his son, William Gaines, who turned it into Entertaining Comics and later created MAD Magazine.
	gatheringofallnations.com /990344_william-gaines_0743459105bedsidema... (464 words)

	The Bryan-College Station Eagle > Faith & Values > Columnists
		In 1933, he was an unemployed novelty salesman living with his wife and two children in his mother’s house.
		They were friends of Max Gaines, so when they went to him with Superman, Gaines — although at first dubious — decided to publish the strip.
		In 1939, Max Gaines joined forces with Donenfeld and Liebowitz to publish American Comics, Flash Comics and All-American Comics, featuring Hawkman and the Green Lantern.
	www.theeagle.com /faithvalues/columnists/071704clearfield.php (862 words)

	The Big Red S: A Superman Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Max Gaines didn't like Superman, but his editor Sheldon Mayor did.
		It was around this time that Max Gaines had bought two color presses, he wanted to find a way to keep them running so he went to Harry Donnenfeld (who just bought out Major Malcolm Nicholson Wheeler to become the sole owner) of Detective Comics and offered to print his comics for a cheap price.
		As agreed, Max Gaines went looking around for something for Donnenfeld to use, and that's when Sheldon stepped up and said "Well, there's Superman", Max replied that "it was better than nothing" and sent it over.
	www.greatkrypton.com /superman/creators.php (2594 words)

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