Grant Geissman: "The History of EC Comics"

Copies of Taschen's will be available by PRE-ORDER ONLY with a deadline of 10/10. $219 including CA sales tax. Payment by Cash, Check, PayPal/Zelle kevinsegall@gmail.com, or Venmo @Kevin-Segall. The History of E.C. Comics

A history of the world’s most notorious comics. In 1947, Bill Gaines inherited EC Comics, a new venture founded by his legendary father M. C. Gaines, who was responsible for midwifing the birth of the comic book as we know it during his tenure at All-American Comics, bringing the likes of Wonder Woman and Green Lantern to the world. Over the next eight years, Bill Gaines and a “who’s who” of the era including Al Feldstein, Harvey Kurtzman, and Wally Wood would reinvent the very notion of the comic book with titles like Tales from the Crypt, Crime SuspenStories, Weird Science, and MAD.  EC delighted in publishing gory, morbid horror and crime comics that had snap, ironic endings—but…