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New Direction (comics)
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
EC Comics
E.C. Publications, Inc., (doing business as EC Comics) is an American comic book publisher. It specialized in horror fiction, crime fiction, satire, military fiction, dark fantasy, and science fiction from the 1940s through the mid-1950s, notably the '' Tales from the Crypt'' series. 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, adventure, and other genres. Noted for their high quality and shock endings, these stories were also unique in their socially conscious, progressive themes (including racial equality, anti-war advocacy, nuclear disarmament, and environmentalism) that anticipated the Civil Rights Movement and the dawn of the 1960s counterculture. In 1954–55, censorship pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Orlando
Joseph Orlando (April 4, 1927 – December 23, 1998) was an Italian Americans, Italian-American illustrator, writer, editor and cartoonist during a lengthy career spanning six decades. He was the associate publisher of ''Mad (magazine), Mad'' and the vice president of DC Comics, where he edited numerous titles and ran DC's Special Projects department. Early life Orlando was born in Bari, Italy, immigrating to the United States in 1929. He began drawing at an early age, going to art classes at a neighborhood boys' club when he was seven years old. He continued there until he was 14, winning prizes annually in their competitions, including a John Wanamaker bronze medal. In 1941, he began attending the School of Industrial Art (later the High School of Art and Design), where he studied illustration. This school was a breeding ground for a number of comics artists, including Richard Bassford, Sy Barry, Frank Giacoia, Carmine Infantino, Rocke Mastroserio, Alex Toth and future comics le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two-Fisted Tales
''Two-Fisted Tales'' is an anthology war comic published bi-monthly by EC Comics in the early 1950s. The title originated in 1950 when Harvey Kurtzman suggested to William Gaines that they publish an adventure comic. Kurtzman became the editor of ''Two-Fisted Tales'', and with the dawn of the Korean War, he soon narrowed the focus to war stories. The title was a companion comic to ''Frontline Combat'', and stories Kurtzman wrote for both books often displayed an anti-war attitude. It returned to adventure-themed stories in issues #36 through #39, co-edited by John Severin and Colin Dawkins, with a cover-title change to ''The New Two-Fisted Tales''. The bimonthly title ran 24 issues, numbered 18–41, from 1950 to 1955. In 1952, EC published ''Two-Fisted Annual'' which had no new stories but instead bound together past issues of ''Two-Fisted Tales'' with a new cover by Kurtzman. The same procedure was repeated in 1953 for an annual with a new Jack Davis cover. Years after i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crime SuspenStories
''Crime SuspenStories'' was a bi-monthly anthology crime comic published by EC Comics in the early 1950s. The title first arrived on newsstands with its October/November 1950 issue and ceased publication with its February/March 1955 issue, producing a total of 27 issues. Years after its demise, the title was reprinted in its entirety, and four stories were adapted for television in the HBO's '' Tales From The Crypt''. Writers and artists Each issue contained four stories centering on a wide variety of criminal activities, and it differed from other crime comic books of the period because the content was strongly influenced both by ''film noir'' and the writers of short fiction for magazines. Issues three through 16 featured a guest appearance from '' The Haunt of Fears Old Witch. Artists included Al Feldstein, Johnny Craig, George Evans, Jack Kamen, Wally Wood, Graham Ingels, Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Davis, George Roussos, Sid Check, Al Williamson, Fred Peters, Joe Orlando, Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DC Comics
DC Comics (originally DC Comics, Inc., and also known simply as DC) is an American comic book publisher owned by DC Entertainment, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery. DC is an initialism for "Detective Comics", an American comic book series first published in 1937. DC Comics is one of the largest and oldest American comic book companies, the first comic under the DC banner being published in 1937. The majority of its published stories are set in the fictional DC Universe and feature numerous List of DC Comics characters, culturally iconic heroic characters, such as Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and the Flash (DC Comics character), Flash; as well as famous fictional teams, including the Justice League, the Teen Titans, the Suicide Squad, and the Legion of Superheroes. The universe contains an assortment of well-known supervillains, such as Lex Luthor, the Joker (character), Joker, Darkseid, and the antihero Catwoman. The company has published non-DC Universe-related mater ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moon Girl (EC Comics)
Moon Girl is a fictional character published by EC Comics from 1947 to 1949. Moon Girl is a character from the Golden Age of Comic Books and has since passed into the public domain. Her secret identity is Claire Lune, a junior high history teacher. Like DC Comics' Wonder Woman, Moon Girl was the princess of an isolated tribe of warrior women in Samarkand, and fought evil in her telepathically controlled flying moonship. Her powers derived from a Moon rock. Her love interest was Prince Mengu, who tried to invade her kingdom in Samarkand, but became her companion and fellow teacher in America. Publication history Bill Woolfolk and Sheldon Moldoff created the character and debuted in fall 1947's ''The Happy Houlihans'' #1. After that appearance, the character was immediately spun off into her comic, ''Moon Girl and the Prince''. The original EC Comics, EC ''Moon Girl'' title went through multiple name changes (and a final genre change) as explained by Mark James Estren in his ''A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Land Of The Lost (radio)
''Land of the Lost'' was a 1940s radio fantasy adventure, written and narrated by Isabel Manning Hewson, about the adventures of two children who traveled underwater with the fatherly fish Red Lantern. Each week, the show opened with the line, "In that wonderful kingdom at the bottom of the sea..." and then Red Lantern showed Billy and Isabel where different lost objects were stored beneath the waves. The ''Land of the Lost'' radio series aired from 1943 to 1948 on the Mutual Broadcasting System and American Broadcasting Company, ABC. Betty Jane Tyler was the voice of the young Isabel, and Ray Ives was the voice of Billy. Several actors voiced Red Lantern, including Art Carney, Junius Matthews and William Keene. The announcer was Michael Fitzmaurice (actor), Michael Fitzmaurice, and Cyril Armbrister directed. With music by John Winters and lyrics by Barbara Miller, Peggy Marshall did the vocal arrangements. Organist Bob Hamilton provided background music. A pioneer female radio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunfighter (comics)
''Gunfighter'' was a comic published by EC Comics from 1948 to 1950, with a total of nine issues. It was part of EC's Pre-"trend comics" era. Publication history ''Gunfighter'' (renamed from ''Fat and Slat'', four issues), was a comic based on western/crime stories. The comic ran for nine issues, but was then later renamed again to ''The Haunt of Fear ''The Haunt of Fear'' is an American bi-monthly horror comic anthology series that was published by EC Comics from 1950 to 1954 created by Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein. The magazine began in June 1947 as ''Fat and Slat''. It continued under this ...''. References EC Comics publications Comics magazines published in the United States 1948 comics debuts 1950 comics endings Magazines established in 1948 Magazines disestablished in 1950 Bimonthly magazines published in the United States Western (genre) comics Defunct American comics {{comics-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Timely And Atlas Comics Publications
This is a list of the comic books published by Timely Comics (1939–1951) and Atlas Comics (1951–1961) prior to the companies' transformation into Marvel Comics in 1961. Timely Comics Atlas Comics See Also * Timely Comics * Altas Comics * Marvel Comics * List of current Marvel Comics publications References External links *Marvel Comicsat the Big Comic Book DataBase The Big Cartoon DataBase (or BCDB for short) was an online database of information about animated cartoons, animated feature films, animated television shows, and cartoon shorts. The BCDB project began in 1997 as a list of Disney animated fea ... *The Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators* {{DEFAULTSORT:Timely and Atlas Comics publications ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Street & Smith Publications
The following is a list of publications from Street & Smith. "Slick" magazines *'' Mademoiselle'' *''Mademoiselle Living '' (1947–1949) becomes: *''Living'' (1949–1959) continues by Conde Nast *''The Popular Magazine'' *''Air Trails Magazine'' later ''Air Trails Pictorial'' and ''Air Trails and Science Frontiers'' *''Air Progress'' *''Picture Play'' (1915–1941) *''Charm'' (1941–1959) Anthology series *''Tip Top Library'' *''New Medal Library'' Adventure *''Air Trails'' *''All-Around Magazine'' *''Bill Barnes Air Adventures'' *''Do and Dare Weekly'' *''Movie Action Magazine'' *''New Story Magazine'' *''Pete Rice Magazine'' *''Red Raven Library'' *''Sea Stories Magazine'' *''The Skipper'' *''The Wizard'' *''Tiptop Weekly'' *''Top-Notch Magazine'' Detective and mystery *''Clues'' *''Crime Busters'' *''Detective Story Magazine'' *'' The Avenger'' *''Doc Savage'' *''Mystery Story Magazine'' *''Nick Carter Weekly'' *''Old Broadbrim Weekly'' *''The Shadow' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mad (magazine)
''Mad'' (stylized in all caps) is an American humor magazine which was launched in 1952 and currently published by DC Comics, a unit of the DC Entertainment subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery. ''Mad'' was founded by editor Harvey Kurtzman and publisher William Gaines, launched as a comic book series before it became a magazine. It was widely imitated and influential, affecting Satire, satirical media, as well as the cultural landscape of the late 20th century, with editor Al Feldstein increasing readership to more than two million during its 1973–1974 circulation peak. It is the last surviving strip in the EC Comics line, which sold ''Mad'' to Premier Industries in 1961, but closed in 1956. ''Mad'' publishes satire on all aspects of life and popular culture, politics, entertainment, and public figures. Its format includes TV and movie parodies, and satire articles about everyday occurrences that are changed to seem humorous. ''Mad''s mascot, Alfred E. Neuman, is usually on th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comics Code Authority
The Comics Code Authority (CCA) was formed in 1954 by the Comics Magazine Association of America as an alternative to government regulation. The CCA enabled comic publishers to self-regulate the content of American comic book, comic books in the United States. The code was voluntary, as there was no law requiring its use, although some advertisers and retailers looked to it for reassurance. Some publishers including Dell Comics, Dell, Western Publishing, Western, and Gilberton (publisher), Gilberton (Classics Illustrated), never used it.(Golden, Christopher; Stephen Bissette, Thomas E. Sniegoski (2000) ''The Monster Book'' Simon & Schuster) Its code, commonly called "the Comics Code", lasted until the early 21st century. The CC formation followed a moral panic centered around a series of Senate hearings and the publication of psychiatrist Fredric Wertham's book ''Seduction of the Innocent''. Members submitted comics to the CCA, which screened them for adherence to its code, then a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
