That year, Gaines let Liebowitz buy him out, and kept only Picture Stories from the Bible as the foundation of his own new company, EC Comics.

He is the son of Jack Kamen, an illustrator for Mad, Weird Science and other EC Comics publications.

The EC Comics version of this story was " Chewed Out!

Product developer Len Brown, inspired by Wally Wood's cover for EC Comics Weird Science # 16, pitched the idea to Woody Gelman.

The last surviving title from the notorious and critically acclaimed EC Comics line, the magazine offers satire on all aspects of life and popular culture, politics, entertainment, and public figures.

Even EC Comics joined the parade with a sister humor magazine, Panic, produced by future Mad editor Al Feldstein.

Several of the short stories in The Martian Chronicles were adapted into graphic novel-style stories in the EC Comics magazines, including " There Will Come Soft Rains " in Weird Fantasy # 17, " The Million-Year Picnic " in Weird Fantasy # 21, " The Silent Towns " in Weird Fantasy # 22.

He also freelanced for a half-dozen other companies, including EC Comics.

* Terror Illustrated, a 1950s black-and-white magazine published by EC Comics

He worked for numerous companies including Marvel Comics ' 1940s predecessor, Timely Comics ; Vin Sullivan's Magazine Enterprises, where he created Skyman ; and at EC, where he served a brief stint as head writer.

" For approximately three years ( 1947 – 50 ), Fox wrote for EC Comics, including scripts and text pieces which appeared in the famous The Crypt of Terror, The Vault of Horror and Weird Fantasy titles, as well as in the lesser-known Gunfighter, Happy Houlihans, Moon Girl, Saddle Justice and the new trend title Valor, among others.

Between 1990 and 1991, Gladstone reprinted 4 EC Comics titles, in association with EC-fan and publisher Russ Cochran.

William Maxwell Gaines ( March 1, 1922 – June 3, 1992 ), better known as Bill Gaines, was an American publisher and co-editor of EC Comics.

Instead of becoming a chemistry teacher, Bill Gaines took over the family business, EC Comics.

The EC initials stood for both Educational Comics and Entertaining Comics, and the company was at that point best known for its adaptations of Bible stories.

By 1955, EC was effectively driven out of business by the backlash, and by the Comics Magazine Association of America This was an industry group that Gaines himself had suggested to the industry in order to insulate themselves from outside censorship, but he soon lost control of the organization to John Goldwater, publisher of the innocuous Archie teenage comics.

Kurtzman left Gaines ' employ a year later anyway and was replaced by Al Feldstein, who had been Gaines ' most prolific editor during the EC Comics run.

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Entertaining Comics, more commonly known as EC Comics, was an American publisher of comic books specializing in horror fiction, crime fiction, satire, military fiction and science fiction from the 1940s through the mid-1950s, notably the Tales from the Crypt series.

225 Lafayette Street, home of EC Comics

EC Comics promoted its stable of illustrators, allowing each to sign his art and encouraging them to develop idiosyncratic styles ; the company additionally published one-page biographies of them in the comic books.

The original EU legislation “ Restrictions of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronics Devices ” ( RoHS Directive 2002 / 95 / EC ) was replaced and superseded by 2011 / 65 / EU published in July 2011 and commonly known as RoHS 2.

In 1953, Bhob Stewart published The EC Fan Bulletin, which launched EC fandom of imitative EC fanzines.

Debuting in August 1952 ( cover date October – November ), Mad began as a comic book published by EC, then located in lower Manhattan at 225 Lafayette Street.

EC published distinct lines of titles under its Entertaining Comics umbrella.

The initials of the names of the contributors formed the name under which it was published, viz., Stephen Marshall ( SM ), Edmund Calamy ( EC ), Thomas Young ( TY ), Matthew Newcomen ( MN ), and William Spurstow ( WS, then often written VVS equivalent to UUS ).

ISO 3166-2: EC is the entry for Ecuador in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization ( ISO ), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions ( e. g., provinces or states ) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.

By the time EC Comics published Mad # 1, Capp had been doing Fearless Fosdick for nearly a decade.

The Proposal for a Council Directive of 28 September 2011 on a common system of financial transaction tax will amend this Directive 2008 / 7 / EC, but it is not published in the Official Journal.

In the European Union, the EU Directive on Electronic Signatures or the EU Electronic Signatures Directive was published in the EC Official Journal, as Directive 1999 / 93 / EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 1999 on a Community framework for electronic signatures ( OJ No L 13 p. 12 19 / 1 / 2000 ).

Spy vs. Spy is a wordless comic strip that debuted in Mad magazine # 60, dated January 1961, and was originally published by EC Comics.

In 2009 EC published a new regulation ( EC ) No 924 / 2009 on cross-border payments in the Community and repealing Regulation ( EC ) No 2560 / 2001.

* Tales from the Crypt ( comics ), a comic book published by EC Comics during the 1950s

Some sources, including Kurt Busiek, have alleged that Godwin essentially took the story from a story published in EC Comics ' Weird Science # 13, May – June 1952, called " A Weighty Decision ," scripted by Al Feldstein.

In 2005, Gemstone added to Cochran's earlier-published oversize, hardback, black & white slip-cased " The Complete EC Library " collections with the complete Picto-Fiction collection, comprising the EC comics: Confessions Illustrated, Crime Illustrated, Shock Illustrated and Terror Illustrated, along with " 18 previously unseen stories, never published before ".

The Directive, after being substantially amended from the original proposal, was adopted on 12 December 2006 by the Council and the European Parliament, and published on the Official Journal of the European Union on 27 December 2006 as the Directive 2006 / 123 / EC.

Help & Manual is a Windows-based help authoring tool published by EC Software, a company based in Austria.

Moore's Swamp Thing had a profound effect on mainstream comic books, being the first horror comic to approach the genre from a literary point of view since the EC horror comics of the 1950s, and broadened the scope of the series to include ecological and spiritual concerns while retaining its horror-fantasy roots.

The original EC comic books ran paid ads, but Mad magazine quickly dropped all advertising and never accepted it again during Gaines ' lifetime.

Li ' l Abner was also parodied in 1954 ( as " Li ' l Melvin " by " Ol ' Hatt ") in the pages of EC Comics ' humor comic, Panic, edited by Al Feldstein.

Strongly influenced by 1950s EC comic book illustrator Wally Wood, Spain pushed Wood's sharp, crisp black shadows and hard-edged black outlines into a more simplified, stylized direction.

Wallace Allan Wood ( June 17, 1927 – November 2, 1981 ) was an American comic book writer, artist and independent publisher, best known for his work in EC Comics and Mad.

The title is based on the 1950s EC Comics series of the same name and most of the content originated in that comic or the four other EC Comics of the time ( Haunt of Fear, Vault of Horror, Crime SuspenStories, and Shock SuspenStories ).

He attempted to enter the comic book profession in his early 20s, approaching EC Comics, which declined to hire him.

Gleason's titles ( along with those produced by EC Comics ) became targets of increasing criticism of the influence of comic books.

* Impact ( EC Comics ), a 1955 EC Comics comic book

The reason for this, according to Creepy founding editor Russ Jones, is that Amicus producer Milton Subotsky did not own a run of the original EC comic book but instead adapted the movie from the two paperback reprints given to him by Jones.

" Geppi hinted at " new developments " for the Overstreet Price Guide in 2010, and stated that while " no final decision has been made regarding The EC Archives or our comic books featuring Disney's standard characters ... it seems certain that both lines will continue in some form.

The Norwegian comic book has introduced several upcoming Norwegian comic artists, and also run foreign comics including Lenore by Roman Dirge, Em by Maria Smedstad, Liberty Meadows by Frank Cho, WayLay by Carol Lay, EC Comics horror classics, Sinfest by Tatsuya Ishida and Fables by Bill Willingham.

John Powers Severin ( December 26, 1921 – February 12, 2012 ) was an American comic book artist noted for his distinctive work with EC Comics, primarily on the war comics Two-Fisted Tales and Frontline Combat ; for Marvel Comics, especially its war and Western comics ; and for his 45-year stint with the satiric magazine Cracked.

Marie Severin ( born August 21, 1929 ) is an American comic book artist and colorist best known for her work for Marvel Comics and the 1950s ' EC Comics.

When EC ceased publication in the wake of the U. S. Senate hearings on the effects of comic books on children and the establishment of the Comics Code, Severin worked briefly for Marvel Comics ' 1950s predecessor, Atlas Comics, until an industry downturn circa 1957 prompted her to seek work with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.