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Entertaining Comics, commonly known as EC Comics, was a major publisher of comic books in the 1940s and 1950s. The letters EC originally stood for Educational Comics. EC's Pre-Trend titles are those published by Max Gaines and his son William M. Gaines, who took over the family business after his father's death in 1947.
The EC Archives are an ongoing series of American hardcover collections of full-color comic book reprints of EC Comics, published by Russ Cochran and Gemstone Publishing from 2006 to 2008, and then continued by Cochran and Grant Geissman's GC imprint (2011–2012), and finally taken over by Dark Horse in 2013.
Although the last non-Mad EC publication came out in 1956, EC Comics have remained popular for half a century, due to reprints that have kept them in the public eye. In 1964–1966, Ballantine Books published five black-and-white paperbacks of EC stories: Tales of the Incredible showcased EC science fiction, while the paperbacks Tales from the ...
The reprint run would feature all the EC comic material with the exception of MAD comics, whose rights belonged to another owner. Fantagraphics' publication would become the first EC Comics collection arranged by artist.
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One of these reprints was the first issue of Mad, which was published originally by EC Comics. The initial version of Millennium Edition: Mad #1 (also known as Millennium Edition: Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad #1) only listed DC and its staff, omitting credit to EC and the creators of Mad #1, including William M. Gaines and Harvey Kurtzman ...