MC Gaines was a salesman for Eastern Color Printing in 1933 and the story - as he told it - is that one day he was struck with inspiration while throwing out the Sunday funnies. What he did was compile them into a pamphlet. He didn’t invent the comic strip - comics had been a going concern for a while when Gaines came on the scene. The elder Gaines claimed to have created the very first comic book. Comics when his four color carnage almost ended the comic book industry - which his father, MC Gaines, supposedly started. Comics start? That story begins with the very first comic book. Everybody knows that the heat from these investigations forever changed comics, that the Comics Code Authority and the Silver Age of superheroes sprung from it and that Tales From The Cryptand its sister publications slunk back into the tomb. Everybody’s heard about the crusade of Fredric Wertham and the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency. and their titles, and the way that horror comics became the face of everything morally corrupt in 1950s youth culture. model - garish scares, a poetic justice ending and a horror host wraparound - as their foundation.īy now everybody is familiar with E.C. Writing about the philosophy of fear in Danse Macabre, King said,“Those horror comics of the Fifties still sum up for me the epitome of horror,” so it was no surprise that when he and George Romero got together to make Creepshow, an anthology movie based on King’s short stories, they used the E.C. Comics’ seminal Tales From The Crypt, The Vault Of Horror and The Haunt Of Fear. Stephen King grew up on the gory, humorous yarns in E.C.
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