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- Publications Pre-Trend New Trend New Direction Picto-Fiction Mad annuals and specials Reprints
- References
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. In 1950, with the addition of writer and artist Al Feldstein, EC found success with their New Trend line, including their horror titles Tales From the Crypt The Haunt of Fear and The Vault of Horror. A line of science fiction titles soon followed, Weird Science and Weird Fantasy, illustrated by the best artists in the business, such as Wallace Wood, Reed Crandall, Johnny Craig, George Evans, Graham Ingels, Jack Davis, Bill Elder, Joe Orlando, Al Williamson and Frank Frazetta. In addition to original stories, the books also featured adaptations of Ray Bradbury's short stories. The New Direction group was a response to the Comics Code Authority. Picto-Fiction was a short-lived line of heavily illustrated short story magazines. Beginning in 1958, EC published annual and special editions of Mad. PublicationsPre-Trend Title | Genre | Initial Run | Issues | Notes | Animal Fables | Comedy | 1946–1947 | #1-7 | Animated Comics (1947) | N/A | N/A | #1 | Blackstone the Magician Detective Fights Crime | Superhero | (1947–1948) | #4 | Crime Patrol | Crime | 1948–1950 | #1-16 - Issues #1-5 titled as International Comics
- Issue #6 titled as International Crime Patrol
- Issue numbering continued as The Crypt of Terror
| Dandy Comics | Comedy | 1947–1948 | #1-7 | Fat and Slat | Comedy | 1947–1948 | #1-4 - Issue numbering continued as Gunfighter
| Gunfighter | Western | 1948–1950 | - Issue numbering continued as The Haunt of Fear
| Happy Houlihans | Comedy | 1947 | #1-2 - Issue numbering continued as Saddle Justice
| Land of the Lost | Adventure | 1946–1948 | #1-9 | Modern Love | Romance | 1949–1950 | #1-8 | Moon Girl | Superhero | 1947–1950 | #1-12 - Issue #1 titled as Moon Girl and the Prince
- Issues #7-8 titled as Moon Girl Fights Crime!
- Issues #9-12 titled as A Moon, a Girl...Romance
| Picture Stories from the Bible (New Testament edition) | N/A | 1944–1946 | #1-3 - Old Testament edition published by DC Comics
| Picture Stories from American History | N/A | 1945–1947 | #1-4 | Picture Stories from Science | N/A | 1947 | #1-2 | Saddle Justice | Western | 1948–1950 | #3-11 - Issues #9-11 titled as Saddle Romances
- Issue numbering continued as Weird Science
| Tiny Tot Comics | Children | 1946–1947 | #1-10 | War Against Crime! | Crime | 1948–1950 | #1-11 - Issue numbering continued as The Vault of Horror
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New Trend Title | Genre | Initial Run | Number of Issues | The Crypt of Terror/Tales from the Crypt | Horror | April/May 1950 to February/March 1955 | 30 issues | The Vault of Horror | Horror | April/May 1950 to December/January 1955 | 29 issues | The Haunt of Fear | Horror | May/June 1950 to November/December 1954 | 28 issues | Weird Fantasy | Sci-fi | May/June 1950 to November/December 1953 | 22 issues | Weird Science | Sci-fi | May/June 1950 to November/December 1953 | 22 issues | Crime SuspenStories | Crime | October/November 1950 to February/March 1955 | 27 issues | Two-Fisted Tales | War | November/December 1950 to February 1955 | 24 issues | Frontline Combat | War | July/August, 1951 to January 1954 | 15 issues | Shock SuspenStories | Suspence | February/March 1952 to December/January 1955 | 18 issues | Mad | Comedy | October–November 1952 to ongoing | N/A | Three Dimensional E.C. Classics/Three Dimensional Tales from the Crypt of Terror | N/A | Spring 1954 to March 1954 | 2 issues | Panic | Comedy | February–March 1954 to December/January 1956 | 12 issues | Weird Science-Fantasy | Sci-fi | March 1954 to May/June 1955 | 7 issues | Piracy | Fantasy | October/November 1954 to October/November 1955 | 7 issues |
New Direction Title | Genre | Initial Run | Number of Issues | Impact | Suspense | March/April 1955 to Nov/Dec 1955 | 5 issues | Valor | Fantasy | March/April 1955 to Nov/Dec 1955 | 5 issues | Extra! | Slice of Life | March/April 1955 to Nov/Dec 1955 | 5 issues | Aces High | War | March/April 1955 to Nov/Dec 1955 | 5 issues | Psychoanalysis | Slice of Life | March/April, 1955 to September/October 1955 | 4 issues | M.D. | Slice of Life | April/May 1955 to Nov/Dec 1955 | 5 issue | Incredible Science Fiction | Sci-Fi | July/August 1955 to Jan/Feb 1956 | 4 issues |
Picto-Fiction Title | Genre | Initial Run | Number of Issues | Confessions Illustrated | Romance | February 1956 – July 1956 | 3 issues | Crime Illustrated | Crime | December 1955 – June 1956 | 3 issues | Shock Illustrated | Suspense | September/October 1955 – Spring 1956 | 3 issues | Terror Illustrated | Horror | November/December 1955 – Spring 1956 | 2 issues |
Mad annuals and specials- More Trash from Mad, 1958–1969 (12 issues)
- Worst from Mad, 1958–1969 (12 issues)
- Mad Follies, 1963–1969 (7 issues)
- Mad Special, 1970–1973 (10 issues)
- Mad Super Special, 1973–1999 (131 issues)
- Mad XL, 2000–2005 (34 issues)
- Mad Color Classics, 2000–2005 (11 issues)
- Mad Classics, 2005–2009 (25 issues)
- Mad Kids, 2005–2009 (14 issues)
Reprints{{for|the Russ Cochran reprints|Russ Cochran (publisher)}}{{for|the Gladstone reprints|Gladstone Publishing}}{{for|the Gemstone reprints|Gemstone Publishing}}{{for|the Fantagraphics reprints|The EC Artists' Library}}Many of these titles were reprinted during the past 30 years by publisher Russ Cochran, both independently and in conjunction with Gladstone Publishing and later with Gemstone Publishing. Russ Cochran's reprints include The Complete EC Library in black and white but with full-color covers; EC Annuals in full-color, comic-book sized reprints with four to six complete comics in each Annual; and EC Archives, full-color hardcover books containing six complete EC comics. In 2012 Fantagraphics Books began publishing a series of artist- and theme-based collections of EC stories titled The EC Artists' Library. References{{refbegin}}- {{gcdb publisher|id=169|title=EC Comics}}
- EC Comics at the Big Comic Book DataBase
- {{comicbookdb|type=publisher|id=2677|title=EC Comics}}
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