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Mad is an American humor magazine founded by editor Harvey Kurtzman and publisher William Gaines in 1952.

Mad contributor Tom Richmond has tweaked critics who say the magazine's decision to accept advertising would make late publisher William Gaines " turn over in his grave ", pointing out this was impossible because Gaines was cremated.

** William Gaines, American magazine publisher ( d. 1992 )

In 1987, reporters Jeff Lyon and Peter Gorner won a Pulitzer for explanatory reporting, and in 1988, Dean Baquet, William Gaines and Ann Marie Lipinski won a Pulitzer for investigative reporting.

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

In 1941, Max Gaines accepted William Moulton Marston's proposal for the first successful female superhero, Wonder Woman.

These eccentric behavior patterns are also described in Gaines ' biography The Mad World of William M. Gaines, written by Mad writer Frank Jacobs and published in 1972 by Lyle Stuart, a longtime friend.

A film biopic, Ghoulishly Yours, William M. Gaines, has long been in pre-production ; director John Landis and screenwriter Joel Eisenberg have been attached to the project since 2008, with Feldstein as a creative consultant.

Toward the end of his life, Gaines ' name on Mads masthead grew more and more elaborate, ending as " William Mildred Farnsworth Higgenbottom Pius Gaines IX Esq.

* Annotated transcript of the William M. Gaines memorial service

* Dick DeBartolo's William M. Gaines Memorial Page

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Later, during its period of notoriety, it was owned by his son, William Gaines.

When Max Gaines died in 1947 in a boating accident, his son William inherited the comics company.

* William E. Gaines, American politician, character actor known for his roles in film and theatre, which often promoted equal rights for same-sex couples.

It was suggested by one of the original settlers of Cooke County, Colonel William Fitzhugh, that the town be named after General Edmund Pendleton Gaines.

Prominent attendees included John C. Calhoun, Clement C. Clay, Sr., John Bell, William Gwin, and Edmund P. Gaines, but it was James Gadsden of South Carolina who was influential in the convention ’ s recommending a southern route for the proposed railroad, beginning in Texas and ending in San Diego or Mazatlán.

" The committee's questioning of their next witness, EC publisher William Gaines, focused on violent scenes of the type Wertham had decried.