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List of EC Comics publications

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.

Publications
Pre-Trend New Trend New Direction Picto-Fiction Oni Press Mad annuals and specialsMore 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 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''. The full-color EC Archives project was taken up by Dark Horse Comics in 2013, both reprinting previous Gladstone and Gemstone volumes and producing new volumes collecting further EC Comics titles. ==References==
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