Entertaining Comics, commonly known asEC Comics, was a major publisher ofcomic books in the 1940s and 1950s. The letters EC originally stood for Educational Comics. EC'sPre-Trend titles are those published byMax Gaines and his sonWilliam M. Gaines, who took over the family business after his father's death in 1947.

In 1950, with the addition of writer and artistAl Feldstein, EC found success with theirNew Trend line, including their horror titlesTales From the Crypt,The Haunt of Fear andThe Vault of Horror. A line of science fiction titles soon followed,Weird Science andWeird Fantasy, illustrated by the best artists in the business, such asWallace Wood,Reed Crandall,Johnny Craig,George Evans,Graham Ingels,Jack Davis,Bill Elder,Joe Orlando,Al Williamson andFrank Frazetta. In addition to original stories, the books also featured adaptations ofRay Bradbury's short stories.

TheNew Direction group was a response to theComics Code Authority.Picto-Fiction was a short-lived line of heavily illustrated short story magazines. Beginning in 1958, EC published annual and special editions ofMad.

• 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)

Many of these titles were reprinted during the past 30 years by publisherRuss Cochran, both independently and in conjunction withGladstone Publishing and later withGemstone Publishing.

Russ Cochran's reprints includeThe 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 eachAnnual; andEC Archives, full-color hardcover books containing six complete EC comics.

In 2012Fantagraphics Books began publishing a series of artist- and theme-based collections of EC stories titledThe EC Artists' Library.

The full-colorEC Archives project was taken up byDark Horse Comics in 2013, both reprinting previous Gladstone and Gemstone volumes and producing new volumes collecting further EC Comics titles.

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