When Max Gaines died in 1947 from a boating accident he left the family business, EC Comics Company, (which stood for alternately Entertaining Comics and Educational Comics) to his son William “Bill” Gaines. Rather than follow in his father’s footsteps and publish illustrated bible adaptations for the little ones, he instead published graphic horror, crime and science fiction comics that, keeping true to the company name, were both entertaining and educational (nearly all stories had a moral and the evildoer always got his comeuppance in the end). Titles included Tales from the Crypt, Vault of Horror, Weird Science, Weird Fantasy, Shock SuspenStories, Two Fisted Tales and a little humor book called Mad Magazine. Crude and violent, it was only a matter of time before parental outrage would bubble and burst into a torrent of censorship. In 1954 the now infamous congressional hearings over juvenile delinquency and their relation to comic books (led by Dr.
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