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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.
Initially, EC was founded as Educational Comics by Maxwell Gaines and specialized in educational and child-oriented stories. After Max Gaines died in a boating accident in 1947, his son William Gaines took over the company and renamed it Entertaining Comics. He printed more mature stories, delving into horror, war, fantasy, science-fiction ...
Entertaining Comics, better known as EC Comics, was a 1940s and 1950s comic book publisher in the United States founded by William Gaines. For more information, ...
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Although EC's horror stable consisted of three separate magazines, there was little beyond their titles to distinguish them from one another. Each magazine had its own host, known as a GhouLunatic. The Vault-Keeper was the primary host of The Vault of Horror. Hosting duties for any one magazine were typically shared with the hosts of the other two.
Weird Fantasy is an American dark fantasy and science fiction anthology comic that was part of the EC Comics line in the early 1950s. The companion comic for Weird Fantasy was Weird Science . Over a four-year span, Weird Fantasy ran for 22 issues, ending with the November–December 1953 issue.
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.
Shock SuspenStories is an American bi-monthly comic book anthology series that was published by EC Comics from 1952 to 1955 created by Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein.The magazine began in February/March 1952 and ran for 18 issues until being discontinued after the December/January 1955 issue.