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* FatBastard: Alan from "Fed Up!", who constantly takes everything his wife earns in her sword swallowing act and blows it all stuffing his maw. When he steals the money she ends up making when she gets a raise, she [[spoiler:convinces him to try swallowing a sword, then ties his hands behind his back and leaves, just waiting for the [[{{Gasshole}} gasses that he's been releasing ever since he got fatter to kick in and let the sword cut him from the inside.]]
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But it was too good to last. A groundswell of outrage from the MoralGuardians of the mid-1950s led to a Congressional investigation of possible ties between comic books and juvenile delinquency. To protect themselves from possible government censorship, the comic book publishers established UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode in 1954, resulting in comics being forbidden to have sexual content, racial content, drugs and alcohol (unless it's for educational purposes) and graphic violence in them. William Gaines, although he'd initially been in favor of the idea, felt the code adopted was far too restrictive and gave the Code authorities too much opportunity for ExecutiveMeddling.
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But it was too good to last. A groundswell of outrage from the MoralGuardians of the mid-1950s led to a Congressional investigation of possible ties between comic books and juvenile delinquency. To protect themselves from possible government censorship, the comic book publishers established UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode MediaNotes/TheComicsCode in 1954, resulting in comics being forbidden to have sexual content, racial content, drugs and alcohol (unless it's for educational purposes) and graphic violence in them. William Gaines, although he'd initially been in favor of the idea, felt the code adopted was far too restrictive and gave the Code authorities too much opportunity for ExecutiveMeddling.
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* SplatterHorror: The stories used the visual medium to the fullest, illustrating gruesome themes such as cannibalism, murder, live burial, and body horror with the sort of loving detail that the pre-[[UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode Comics Code]] era allowed.
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* SplatterHorror: The stories used the visual medium to the fullest, illustrating gruesome themes such as cannibalism, murder, live burial, and body horror with the sort of loving detail that the pre-[[UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode pre-[[MediaNotes/TheComicsCode Comics Code]] era allowed.
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* ArtisticLicenceHistory: In ''Desert Fox'', Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is depicted as being stopped in the street by random SS and Gestapo men who tell him that they have orders from Hitler to accompany him to Berlin by car, after which they explain to him that Hitler has given him two choices: either be tried by the [[KangarooCourt People's Court]] in Berlin, or commit suicide by poison. In real life, two generals from Hitler's headquarters, Wilhelm Burgdorf and Ernst Maisel, visited Rommel at his home, with Burgdorf informing him of the charges against him and offering him three options: either choosing to defend himself in front of Hitler, facing the People's Court, or taking poison, with the last option ensuring him a burial with full military honors and with his family and staff spared. Rommel opted for suicide and explained his decision to his wife and son before getting into Burgdorf's car and taking the poison.
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** In ''Desert Fox'', Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is depicted as being stopped in the street by random SS and Gestapo men who tell him that they have orders from Hitler to accompany him to Berlin by car, after which they explain to him that Hitler has given him two choices: either be tried by the [[KangarooCourt People's Court]] in Berlin, or commit suicide by poison. In real life, two generals from Hitler's headquarters, Wilhelm Burgdorf and Ernst Maisel, visited Rommel at his home, with Burgdorf informing him of the charges against him and offering him three options: either choosing to defend himself in front of Hitler, facing the People's Court, or taking poison, with the last option ensuring him a burial with full military honors and with his family and staff spared. Rommel opted for suicide and explained his decision to his wife and son before getting into Burgdorf's car and taking the poison.
** ''Master Race'' centers on the protagonist Carl Reissman's memories of Belsen concentration camp ([[NaziProtagonist which he commanded]]) and mentions "the awful smell of the gas chambers...the stinking odor of human flesh burning in the ovens". Reissman would be expected to have witnessed this at Auschwitz or Treblinka or one of the other extermination camps in the East, but not at Belsen, which did not have gas chambers (although many Belsen staff had previously served in Auschwitz, so it's not impossible that Reissman could have seen it there). It's also mentioned that the camp was liberated by the Russians, who liberated most of the actual extermination camps, but in RealLife Belsen was liberated by the British.
** In ''Desert Fox'', Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is depicted as being stopped in the street by random SS and Gestapo men who tell him that they have orders from Hitler to accompany him to Berlin by car, after which they explain to him that Hitler has given him two choices: either be tried by the [[KangarooCourt People's Court]] in Berlin, or commit suicide by poison. In real life, two generals from Hitler's headquarters, Wilhelm Burgdorf and Ernst Maisel, visited Rommel at his home, with Burgdorf informing him of the charges against him and offering him three options: either choosing to defend himself in front of Hitler, facing the People's Court, or taking poison, with the last option ensuring him a burial with full military honors and with his family and staff spared. Rommel opted for suicide and explained his decision to his wife and son before getting into Burgdorf's car and taking the poison.
** ''Master Race'' centers on the protagonist Carl Reissman's memories of Belsen concentration camp ([[NaziProtagonist which he commanded]]) and mentions "the awful smell of the gas chambers...the stinking odor of human flesh burning in the ovens". Reissman would be expected to have witnessed this at Auschwitz or Treblinka or one of the other extermination camps in the East, but not at Belsen, which did not have gas chambers (although many Belsen staff had previously served in Auschwitz, so it's not impossible that Reissman could have seen it there). It's also mentioned that the camp was liberated by the Russians, who liberated most of the actual extermination camps, but in RealLife Belsen was liberated by the British.
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** ''[[http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_daily/54803.html Judgment Day]]'' features an astronaut from Earth refusing to allow a planet of robots whose society is [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything segregated along color lines]] to join a coalition of civilized species. The moral about segregation and how it can be overcome is then made crystal clear when the astronaut takes his helmet off and the reader discovers that he is black.
** ''[[https://cacb.wordpress.com/2008/12/03/ec-comics-master-race/ Master Race]]'' is about a German immigrant to America after World War II who is driven to near-madness because he believes he is being stalked by someone from the war. As the story unfolds, it is slowly revealed that the man was a commander at Bergen-Belsen, and the man following him is a Jew he had tortured who had vowed revenge. The story is shot through with accurate descriptions and depictions of what occurred in the Nazi concentration camps, and was one of the first pieces in American popular culture to address the Holocaust at all.
** ''[[http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_daily/54803.html Judgment Day]]'' features an astronaut from Earth refusing to allow a planet of robots whose society is [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything segregated along color lines]] to join a coalition of civilized species. The moral about segregation and how it can be overcome is then made crystal clear when the astronaut takes his helmet off and the reader discovers that he is black.
** ''[[https://cacb.wordpress.com/2008/12/03/ec-comics-master-race/ Master Race]]'' is about a German immigrant to America after World War II who is driven to near-madness because he believes he is being stalked by someone from the war. As the story unfolds, it is slowly revealed that the man was a commander at Bergen-Belsen, and the man following him is a Jew he had tortured who had vowed revenge. The story is shot through with accurate descriptions and depictions of what occurred in the Nazi concentration camps, and was one of the first pieces in American popular culture to address the Holocaust at all.
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In 2024 it was announced that EC Comics would live again in summer 2024 as an imprint of Oni Press. So far two new titles are planned: ''Epitaphs of the Abyss'' (for horror) and ''Cruel Universe'' (for science fiction), retaining the anthology format and using a rotating list of creators.
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* JurisdictionFriction: The story "Four-Way Split" (''Tales From the Crypt #43'') centers on a man who owns an air freight business who murders his partner by tying him up and putting him inside the bomb bay of a plane, then dropping him so that he lands perfectly in the spot where four states meet. The states constantly squabble and bicker over which state should prosecute the guy, meaning the case would be tied up for years, possibly decades. This is EC Comics of course, so the guy gets his when his partner returns from the dead and subject him to four different execution methods.
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* BeastlyBloodsports: In ''Vault of Horror'' story "The Pit!" (#40, 1954) has competing cockfighting and dogfighting rings; the money-hungry women who run them are jealous of each other's profits and goad their {{Henpecked Husband}}s into escalating the fights to draw more customers until the [[BewareTheNiceOnes two men]] decide to pit the women against each other. Got a NoAnimalsWereHarmed adaptation for the ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'' TV show, where the husbands are MMA fighters whose wives are their overcompetitive managers.
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* BeastlyBloodsports: In ''Vault of Horror'' story "The Pit!" (#40, 1954) has competing cockfighting and dogfighting rings; the money-hungry women who run them are jealous of each other's profits and goad their {{Henpecked Husband}}s into escalating the fights to draw more customers until the [[BewareTheNiceOnes two men]] decide to pit the women against each other. Got a NoAnimalsWereHarmed Int the adaptation for the ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'' TV show, where the husbands are MMA fighters whose wives are their overcompetitive managers.
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->''"You should know this about our horror books. We have no ghosts, devils, goblins, or the like. We tolerate vampires and werewolves, if they follow tradition and behave the way respectable vampires and werewolves should. We love walking corpse stories. We’ll accept the occasional zombie or mummy. And we relish the tales of sadism. [[DownerEnding Virtue doesn’t always have to triumph.]]"''
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->''"You should know this about our horror books. We have no ghosts, devils, goblins, or the like. We tolerate vampires and werewolves, if they follow tradition and behave the way respectable vampires and werewolves should. We love walking corpse stories. We’ll accept the occasional zombie or mummy. And we relish the tales of sadism. [[DownerEnding Virtue doesn’t always have to triumph.]]"''"''
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->''"We try to entertain and educate. That's all there is to it. A lot of people have the idea that we're a bunch of monsters who sit around drooling and dreaming up horror and filth. That's not true, as you can see."''
-->--'''Bill Gaines''', really trying to walk back that Help Wanted ad, as quoted in "Depravity for Children -- 10 Cents a Copy!" (''The Hartford Courant'', Feb. 14, 1954)
-->--'''Bill Gaines''', really trying to walk back that Help Wanted ad, as quoted in "Depravity for Children -- 10 Cents a Copy!" (''The Hartford Courant'', Feb. 14, 1954)
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-->--'''Bill Gaines''', really trying to walk back that Help Wanted ad, as quoted in "Depravity for Children -- 10 Cents a Copy!" (''The Hartford Courant'', Feb. 14, 1954)
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** The central gimmick of the story "Kamen's Calamity", with additional moments of SelfDeprecation on Gaines and Feldstein's parts -- Jack Kamen illustrates the fictional tale of how he, an endlessly jocular and cheerful artist, was almost fired from EC when they shifted from romance to horror comics, simply because he kept drawing monsters ''too pretty''. ("Who ever heard of [[{{Literature/Twilight}} a charming, sweet-lookin' vampire?!]]") Ingels, Craig, and Davis also make appearances, [[https://31.media.tumblr.com/970e3a4c7faca4b964d15af84f6c0439/tumblr_inline_my98cwkq5J1rzaxbu.jpg each of them caricaturing themselves in single-panel inserts]].
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** The central gimmick of the story "Kamen's Calamity", with additional moments of SelfDeprecation on Gaines and Feldstein's parts -- Jack Kamen illustrates the fictional tale of how he, an endlessly jocular and cheerful artist, was almost fired from EC when they shifted from romance to horror comics, simply because he kept drawing monsters ''too pretty''. ("Who ever heard of [[{{Literature/Twilight}} [[Literature/TheTwilightSaga a charming, sweet-lookin' vampire?!]]") Ingels, Craig, and Davis also make appearances, [[https://31.media.tumblr.com/970e3a4c7faca4b964d15af84f6c0439/tumblr_inline_my98cwkq5J1rzaxbu.jpg each of them caricaturing themselves in single-panel inserts]].
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Notoriously, EC was told by the CCA to change the ethnicity of a character in a reprint of the classic DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything story [[http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_daily/54803.html "Judgment Day"]], on what was blatantly racist grounds. This was the last straw, and the story was reprinted unchanged in the final comic book published by the company.
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Notoriously, EC was told by the CCA to change the ethnicity of a character in a reprint of the classic DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything story [[http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_daily/54803.html "Judgment Day"]], ''ComicBook/{{Judgment Day|ECComics}}'', on what was blatantly racist grounds. This was the last straw, and the story was reprinted unchanged in the final comic book published by the company.
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[[caption-width-right:320:EC Comics' publisher William Gaines, flanked by the Crypt Keeper, the Old Witch, and the Vault Keeper.]]
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[[caption-width-right:320:EC Comics' publisher William Gaines, flanked by EC's {{Horror Host}}s through the ages: the Crypt Keeper, the Old Witch, and the Vault Keeper.]]
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* GenderBender: In the story "Transformation Complete" (''Weird Science'' #10) a scientist named Emil Hinde invents a formula that can change the patient's gender. Emil is also a MyBelovedSmother to his daughter, Terry and he fears that she's going to leave him when she marries her boyfriend, Lee, so he gives the formula to Lee, claiming that it's cold medicine. Strange things begin to happen to Lee: his skin softens and he stops growing facial hair. This along with a sudden desire to stay clothed and not join in swimming causes tension, and he argues with Terry before suddenly disappearing. When Terry figures out what her father did, she injects herself with the formula, turns into a man and marries Lee.
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* GenderBender: In the story "Transformation Complete" (''Weird Science'' #10) a scientist named Emil Hinde invents a formula that can change the patient's gender. Emil is also a MyBelovedSmother BoyfriendBlockingDad to his daughter, Terry and he fears that she's going to leave him when she marries her boyfriend, Lee, so he gives the formula to Lee, claiming that it's cold medicine. Strange things begin to happen to Lee: his skin softens and he stops growing facial hair. This along with a sudden desire to stay clothed and not join in swimming causes tension, and he argues with Terry before suddenly disappearing. When Terry figures out what her father did, she injects herself with the formula, turns into a man and marries Lee.
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* BodyHorror: The climax of "Horror We? How's Bayou?" (Haunt of Fear #17) ends with three victims of the murderous Everett reassembling their bodies in the swamp (including Max Forman's head attaching itself to a dead womans body) in order to take revenge on Everett's brother Sidney, who directed his victims to his murderous brother--but not by killing him, but by using Forman's surgery tools to reassemble Sidney's body into a horrific monstrosity, something [[EvenEvilHasStandards even Everett is scared of.]] The narration sums it up.
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* BodyHorror: The climax of "Horror We? How's Bayou?" (Haunt of Fear #17) ends with three victims of the murderous Everett reassembling their bodies in the swamp (including Max Forman's head attaching itself to a dead womans woman's body) in order to take revenge on Everett's brother Sidney, who directed his victims to his murderous brother--but brother-- not by killing him, but by using Forman's surgery tools to reassemble Sidney's body into a horrific monstrosity, something [[EvenEvilHasStandards even Everett is scared of.]] The narration sums it up.
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* CatsHaveNineLives: In "Dig That Cat, He's Real Gone" (''The Haunt of Fear'' #21) a scientist transplants a cat gland into a man, who thus gains the ability to come back from death nine times. He becomes a daredevil named "Ulric the Undying", and earns moeny by "surviving" dangerous stunts - he actually dies each time, but then comes back to life. For his grand finale (his eighth life) he'll be sealed into a coffin and buried alive for three hours. As he lies there, he reflects on the whole experience... [[spoiler:and then realizes that the process of transferring the gland also killed the cat... which means that gland only gave him ''eight'' lives.]]
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* CatsHaveNineLives: In "Dig That Cat, He's Real Gone" (''The Haunt of Fear'' #21) a scientist transplants a cat gland into a man, who thus gains the ability to come back from death nine times. He becomes a daredevil named "Ulric the Undying", and earns moeny money by "surviving" dangerous stunts - he actually dies each time, but then comes back to life. For his grand finale (his eighth life) he'll be sealed into a coffin and buried alive for three hours. As he lies there, he reflects on the whole experience... [[spoiler:and then realizes that the process of transferring the gland also killed the cat... which means that gland only gave him ''eight'' lives.]]
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* TheDogBitesBack: The ending of "Horror We? Hows Bayou?". Everett's victims come back from the dead and horrifically reassemble his brothers body into a bizarre monstrosity.
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: More than one story ends with the nightmarish events within having been AllJustADream -- [[YouCantFightFate And then they happen anyway.]]
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: More than one story ends with the nightmarish events within having been AllJustADream -- [[YouCantFightFate And then they happen anyway.]]
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* TheDogBitesBack: The ending of "Horror We? Hows How's Bayou?". Everett's victims come back from the dead and horrifically reassemble his brothers brother's body into a bizarre monstrosity.
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: More than one story ends with the nightmarish events within having been AllJustADream -- [[YouCantFightFateAnd and then they happen anyway.]]
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: More than one story ends with the nightmarish events within having been AllJustADream -- [[YouCantFightFate
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* GenderBender: In the story "Transformation Complete" (''Weird Science'' #10) a scientist named Emil Hinde invents a formula that can change the patient's gender. Emil is also a MyBelovedSmother to his daughter, Terry and he fears that she's going to leave him when she marries her boyfriend, Lee, so he gives the formula to Lee, claiming that it's cold medicine. Strange things begin to happen to Lee: his skin his softens and he stops growing facial hair. This along with a sudden desire to stay clothed causes tension and he argues with Terry before suddenly disappearing. When Terry figures out what her father did, she gives the formula to herself, turns into a man and marries Lee.
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* GenderBender: In the story "Transformation Complete" (''Weird Science'' #10) a scientist named Emil Hinde invents a formula that can change the patient's gender. Emil is also a MyBelovedSmother to his daughter, Terry and he fears that she's going to leave him when she marries her boyfriend, Lee, so he gives the formula to Lee, claiming that it's cold medicine. Strange things begin to happen to Lee: his skin his softens and he stops growing facial hair. This along with a sudden desire to stay clothed clothed and not join in swimming causes tension tension, and he argues with Terry before suddenly disappearing. When Terry figures out what her father did, she gives injects herself with the formula to herself, formula, turns into a man and marries Lee.
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** The first issue of Shocking Suspenstories features a GenderInvertedExample in "The Neat Job": a housewife dominated by an abusive husband with a ControlFreak streak intense enough that he insists that they keep track of everything on inventory charts, down to individual asprin in the medicine cabinet. Things come to a breaking point when he flys into a rage finding her in his workshop having broken a jar of nails while trying to fix a picture that had fallen. [[spoiler: In the last panel, she's politely explaining to a pair of detectives how she was very careful to do a ''neat job'' of cleaning up afterward, as they nervously survey the neatly labled jars containing all of his parts.]]
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** The first issue of Shocking Suspenstories features a GenderInvertedExample in "The Neat Job": a housewife dominated by an abusive husband with a ControlFreak streak intense enough that he insists that they keep track of everything on inventory charts, down to individual asprin aspirin in the medicine cabinet. Things come to a breaking point when he flys into a rage finding her in his workshop having broken a jar of nails while trying to fix a picture that had fallen. [[spoiler: In the last panel, she's politely explaining to a pair of detectives how she was very careful to do a ''neat job'' of cleaning up afterward, as they nervously survey the neatly labled jars containing all of his parts.]]
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard
** One story has a gangster being brought BackFromTheDead, by a professor who tells the gangster's colleagues that there may have been some brain damage. The gangster awakens, badly burned, [[UngratefulBastard shoots the scientist]] (was going to do some follow-up care) dead and then monomaniacally starts killing off the jurors who convicted him. He shoots the first two, but the police get wise to him and put the others under protection. He then goes after the judge, but as this point is a slow, rotting mass of flesh that goes down one strike from the poker and disintegrates. Maybe next time, don't kill the only guy who might keep you from decaying?
** One story has a gangster being brought BackFromTheDead, by a professor who tells the gangster's colleagues that there may have been some brain damage. The gangster awakens, badly burned, [[UngratefulBastard shoots the scientist]] (was going to do some follow-up care) dead and then monomaniacally starts killing off the jurors who convicted him. He shoots the first two, but the police get wise to him and put the others under protection. He then goes after the judge, but as this point is a slow, rotting mass of flesh that goes down one strike from the poker and disintegrates. Maybe next time, don't kill the only guy who might keep you from decaying?
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard
**HoistByHisOwnPetard: One story has a gangster being brought BackFromTheDead, by a professor who tells the gangster's colleagues that there may have been some brain damage. The gangster awakens, badly burned, [[UngratefulBastard shoots the scientist]] (was (who was going to do some follow-up care) dead and then monomaniacally starts killing off the jurors who convicted him. He shoots the first two, but the police get wise to him and put the others under protection. He then goes after the judge, but as this point is a slow, rotting mass of flesh that goes down one strike from the poker and disintegrates. Maybe next time, don't kill the only guy who might keep you from decaying?
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* HumanJackOLantern: ''Shock [=SuspenStories=]'' issue #2 has the story "Halloween!" A woman comes to work at a [[OrphanageOfFear miserable, underfunded orphanage]]. She tries to make things as nice for the kids as she can, and when they want a jack-o-lantern for Halloween, she goes to the office of the head of the orphange... and finds out he's been embezzling funds for years. When she threatens to expose him, he threatens her life-- and the kids rally to save her. [[https://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/8582372.html And get their jack-o-lantern.]]
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* HumanJackOLantern: ''Shock [=SuspenStories=]'' issue #2 has the story "Halloween!" A woman comes to work at a [[OrphanageOfFear miserable, underfunded orphanage]]. She tries to make things as nice for the kids as she can, and when they want a jack-o-lantern for Halloween, she goes to the office of the head of the orphange...orphanage... and finds out he's been embezzling funds for years. When she threatens to expose him, he threatens her life-- and the kids rally to save her. [[https://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/8582372.html And get their jack-o-lantern.]]
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* IdenticalStranger: In "Double-Crossed" from ''CrimeSuspenstories #24'', a man by the name of David Volney arrives in town and is greeted with awe and respect from literally everyone he runs into, and learns that he looks exactly like a millionaire by the name of Edwin Jordon, who happens to be divorcing his beautiful wife. By sheer chance, he runs into Jordon's wife and her new man, both of whom start insulting him. Volney stands up to the wife and slugs the other man when he takes a swing, and the wife is impressed with her "husband"'s sudden backbone and more manly personality. Volney sneaks into Jordon's house, kills him and completely destroys the body. In case someone tries to test him, he makes sure to put his own fingerprints on everything Jordon owns, trains himself to write like him, etc. [[spoiler:It turns out that while Volney had been shmoozing it up with the wife that afternoon, ''Jordon'' had stormed upstairs to the other man's hotel room in front of a bunch of witnesses and [[MurderTheHypotenuse shot him]] before fleeing back home. Volney can't prove the truth with no evidence and even if he could, he'd still be on the hook for murdering Jordon]].
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* IdenticalStranger: In "Double-Crossed" from ''CrimeSuspenstories ''Crime Suspenstories #24'', a man by the name of David Volney arrives in town and is greeted with awe and respect from literally everyone he runs into, and learns that he looks exactly like a millionaire by the name of Edwin Jordon, who happens to be divorcing his beautiful wife. By sheer chance, he runs into Jordon's wife and her new man, both of whom start insulting him. Volney stands up to the wife and slugs the other man when he takes a swing, and the wife is impressed with her "husband"'s sudden backbone and more manly personality. Volney sneaks into Jordon's house, kills him and completely destroys the body. In case someone tries to test him, he makes sure to put his own fingerprints on everything Jordon owns, trains himself to write like him, etc. [[spoiler:It turns out that while Volney had been shmoozing it up with the wife that afternoon, ''Jordon'' had stormed upstairs to the other man's hotel room in front of a bunch of witnesses and [[MurderTheHypotenuse shot him]] before fleeing back home. Volney can't prove the truth with no evidence and even if he could, he'd still be on the hook for murdering Jordon]].
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* OnlySixFaces: Not a whole lot a facial variety here, at least among the living characters.
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* OurZombiesAreDifferent: By todays' standards anyway; the mindless flesh-eating zombie wasn't really a thing yet, so zombies would be either traditional voodoo zombies or more often, corpses come back for revenge. The role of humanoid people-eaters usually went to...
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* OurZombiesAreDifferent: By todays' today's standards anyway; the mindless flesh-eating zombie wasn't really a thing yet, so zombies would be either traditional voodoo zombies or more often, corpses come back for revenge. The role of humanoid people-eaters usually went to...
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* SeveredHeadSports: In the story "[[http://cacb.wordpress.com/2008/12/02/ec-comics-foul-play/ Foul Play]]", an evil baseball player is murdered by the members of the opposing team. After killing him, they play a game where they use his head for as the ball, his leg as the bat, his intestines to mark the base liner and his organs to mark the bases. They even use his scalp to dust off home plate. Predictably, this story was among the ones cited most often by parents' groups and legislators as proof of EC's depravity -- as they saw it, impugning the noble American pastime of baseball with such gory filth -- and made an appearance at Gaines and Feldstein's day in court.)
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* SeveredHeadSports: In the story "[[http://cacb.wordpress.com/2008/12/02/ec-comics-foul-play/ Foul Play]]", an evil baseball player is murdered by the members of the opposing team. After killing him, they play a game where they use his head for as the ball, his leg as the bat, his intestines to mark the base liner and his organs to mark the bases. They even use his scalp to dust off home plate. Predictably, this story was among the ones cited most often by parents' groups and legislators as proof of EC's depravity -- as they saw it, impugning the noble American pastime of baseball with such gory filth -- and made an appearance at Gaines and Feldstein's day in court.)
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* GenderBender: In the story "Transformation Complete" (''Weird Science'' #10) a scientist named Emil Hinde invents a formula that can change the patient's gender. Emil is also an OverprotectiveDad to his daughter, Terry and he fears that she's going to leave him when she marries her boyfriend, Lee, so he gives the formula to Lee, claiming that it's cold medicine. Strange things begin to happen to Lee: his skin his softens and he stops growing facial hair. This along with a sudden desire to stay clothed causes tension and he argues with Terry before suddenly disappearing. When Terry figures out what her father did, she gives the formula to herself, turns into a man and marries Lee.
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* GenderBender: In the story "Transformation Complete" (''Weird Science'' #10) a scientist named Emil Hinde invents a formula that can change the patient's gender. Emil is also an OverprotectiveDad a MyBelovedSmother to his daughter, Terry and he fears that she's going to leave him when she marries her boyfriend, Lee, so he gives the formula to Lee, claiming that it's cold medicine. Strange things begin to happen to Lee: his skin his softens and he stops growing facial hair. This along with a sudden desire to stay clothed causes tension and he argues with Terry before suddenly disappearing. When Terry figures out what her father did, she gives the formula to herself, turns into a man and marries Lee.
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* DropDeadGorgeous: Several stories have murder victims depicted lying in alluring poses, particularly when drawn by Jack Kamen or Wally Wood.
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* DropDeadGorgeous: Several stories have murder victims depicted lying in alluring poses, particularly when drawn by Jack Kamen or Wally Wood. An in-universe lampshading in the ''Shock [=SuspenStories=]'' story "Beauty and the Beach," when a jealous husband makes his exhibitionist wife wear her bikini before encasing her in plastic so that "she can be admired...always!"
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* DropDeadGorgeous: Several stories have murder victims depicted lying in alluring poses, particularly when drawn by Jack Kamen or Wally Wood.
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** Featured in the backstory of "In Gratitude," wherein two Korean war soldiers form a tight bond during their service, so much so that one [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifices himself ]]for the other. The survivor therefore asks that his friend be buried in the family plot [[spoiler: only to find that his family refused to do so upon finding out his friend was black.]]
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A [[ShortLivedBigImpact short-lived but influential]] publisher of AnthologyComic books.
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A [[ShortLivedBigImpact short-lived but highly influential]] U.S. publisher of AnthologyComic books.
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EC Comics was founded by Maxwell Gaines in 1944 as "Educational Comics", with the aim of producing fact-based comic books marketed at churches and schools. After his death in 1947, his son William M. Gaines inherited the business, re-branding it as "Entertaining Comics" and producing titles in more typical commercially-oriented genres: {{Western}}, CrimeFiction, romance. Then, starting in 1949, the younger Gaines began introducing the "New Trend" series, with titles focusing on {{Horror}} (''Tales from the Crypt'', ''The Vault of Horror'', ''The Haunt of Fear''), crime (''Crime [=SuspenStories=]''), realistically depicted war (''Two-Fisted Tales'', ''Frontline Combat''), ScienceFiction (''Weird Science'', ''Weird Fantasy''), or some mixture of the above (''Shock [=SuspenStories=]''). The horror, science fiction, and crime stories almost invariably had a TwistEnding, and EC was making extensive use of the KarmicTwistEnding before ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' ever aired. (They stayed clear of the CruelTwistEnding.)
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EC Comics was founded by Maxwell Gaines in 1944 as "Educational Comics", with the aim of producing fact-based comic books marketed at churches and schools. After his death in 1947, his son William M. Gaines inherited the business, re-branding it as "Entertaining Comics" and producing titles in more typical commercially-oriented genres: {{Western}}, CrimeFiction, romance. Then, starting beginning in 1949, the younger Gaines began started introducing the "New Trend" series, with titles focusing on {{Horror}} (''Tales from the Crypt'', ''The Vault of Horror'', ''The Haunt of Fear''), crime (''Crime [=SuspenStories=]''), realistically depicted war (''Two-Fisted Tales'', ''Frontline Combat''), ScienceFiction (''Weird Science'', ''Weird Fantasy''), or some a mixture of the above (''Shock [=SuspenStories=]''). The horror, science fiction, and crime stories almost invariably had a TwistEnding, featured {{Twist Ending}}s, and EC was making extensive use of the KarmicTwistEnding before ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' ever aired. (They stayed clear of the CruelTwistEnding.)
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EC Comics was founded by Maxwell Gaines in 1944 as "Educational Comics", with the aim of producing fact-based comic books marketed at churches and schools. After his death in 1947, his son William M. Gaines inherited the business, re-branding it as "Entertaining Comics" and producing titles in more typical commercially-oriented genres: {{Western}}, CrimeFiction, romance. Then, starting in 1949, the younger Gaines began introducing the "New Trend" series focusing on {{Horror}} (''Tales from the Crypt'', ''The Vault of Horror'', ''The Haunt of Fear''), crime (''Crime [=SuspenStories=]''), realistically depicted war (''Two-Fisted Tales'', ''Frontline Combat''), ScienceFiction (''Weird Science'', ''Weird Fantasy''), or some mixture of the above (''Shock [=SuspenStories=]''). The horror, science fiction, and crime stories almost invariably had a TwistEnding, and EC was making extensive use of the KarmicTwistEnding before ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' ever aired. (They stayed clear of the CruelTwistEnding.)
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EC Comics was founded by Maxwell Gaines in 1944 as "Educational Comics", with the aim of producing fact-based comic books marketed at churches and schools. After his death in 1947, his son William M. Gaines inherited the business, re-branding it as "Entertaining Comics" and producing titles in more typical commercially-oriented genres: {{Western}}, CrimeFiction, romance. Then, starting in 1949, the younger Gaines began introducing the "New Trend" series series, with titles focusing on {{Horror}} (''Tales from the Crypt'', ''The Vault of Horror'', ''The Haunt of Fear''), crime (''Crime [=SuspenStories=]''), realistically depicted war (''Two-Fisted Tales'', ''Frontline Combat''), ScienceFiction (''Weird Science'', ''Weird Fantasy''), or some mixture of the above (''Shock [=SuspenStories=]''). The horror, science fiction, and crime stories almost invariably had a TwistEnding, and EC was making extensive use of the KarmicTwistEnding before ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' ever aired. (They stayed clear of the CruelTwistEnding.)
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* GenderBender: In the story "Transformation Complete" (''Weird Science'' #10) a scientist named Emil Hinde invents a formula that can change the patient's gender. Emil is also an OverprotectiveDad to his daughter, Terry and he fears that she's going to leave him when she marries her boyfriend, Lee, so he gives the formula to Lee, claiming that it's cold medicine. Strange things begin to happen to Lee, his skin his softening and he doesn't grow facial hair. This along with a sudden desire to stay clothed causes tension and he argues with Terry before suddenly disappearing. When Terry figures out what her father did, she gives the formula to herself, turns into a man and marries Lee.
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* GenderBender: In the story "Transformation Complete" (''Weird Science'' #10) a scientist named Emil Hinde invents a formula that can change the patient's gender. Emil is also an OverprotectiveDad to his daughter, Terry and he fears that she's going to leave him when she marries her boyfriend, Lee, so he gives the formula to Lee, claiming that it's cold medicine. Strange things begin to happen to Lee, Lee: his skin his softening softens and he doesn't grow stops growing facial hair. This along with a sudden desire to stay clothed causes tension and he argues with Terry before suddenly disappearing. When Terry figures out what her father did, she gives the formula to herself, turns into a man and marries Lee.
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** The first issue of Shocking Suspenstories features a GenderInvertedExample in "The Neat Job": a housewife dominated by an abusive husband with a ControlFreak streak intense enough that he insists that they keep track of everything on inventory charts, down to individual asprin in the medicine cabinet. Things come to a breaking point when he flys into a rage finding her in his workshop having broken a jar of nails while trying to fix a picture that had fallen. [[spoiler: In the last panel, she's politely explaining to a pair of detectives how she was very careful to do a ''neat job'' of cleaning up afterward, as they nervously survey the neatly labled jars containing all of his parts.]]
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* EnclosedExtraterrestrials: In "Judgment Day" a human astronaut visits a planet of robots to determine their fitness to join the Galactic Federation and keeps his helmet on for the entire visit. He eventually decides that the robots are not ready to join because some robots discriminate against others because of the color of their casings. In the final panel he takes off his helmet, showing that he is a black man.
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* EnclosedExtraterrestrials: In "Judgment Day" a human astronaut visits a planet of robots to determine their fitness to join the Galactic Federation Republic and keeps his helmet on for the entire visit. He eventually decides that the robots are not ready to join because some robots discriminate against others because of the color of their casings. In the final panel he takes off his helmet, showing that he is a black man.
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** ''[[http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_daily/54803.html Judgment Day]]'' features an astronaut from Earth refusing to allow a planet of robots whose society is [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything segregated along color lines]] to join a coalition of civilized species. The moral about segregation and how t can be overcome is then made crystal clear when the astronaut takes his helmet off and the reader discovers that he is black.
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** ''[[http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_daily/54803.html Judgment Day]]'' features an astronaut from Earth refusing to allow a planet of robots whose society is [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything segregated along color lines]] to join a coalition of civilized species. The moral about segregation and how t it can be overcome is then made crystal clear when the astronaut takes his helmet off and the reader discovers that he is black.
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EC Comics was founded by Maxwell Gaines in 1944 as "Educational Comics", with the aim of producing fact-based comic books marketed at churches and schools. After his death in 1947, his son William M. Gaines inherited the business, re-branding it as "Entertaining Comics" and producing titles in more typical commercially-oriented genres: {{Western}}, CrimeFiction, romance. Then, starting in 1949, the younger Gaines began introducing the "New Trend" series focusing on {{Horror}} (''Tales from the Crypt'', ''The Vault of Horror'', ''The Haunt of Fear''), crime (''Crime [=SuspenStories=]''), realistically depicted war (''Two-Fisted Tales'', ''Frontline Combat''), ScienceFiction (''Weird Science'', ''Weird Fantasy''), or some mixture of the above (''Shock [=SuspenStories=]''). The horror, science fiction and crime stories almost invariably had a TwistEnding. EC made extensive use of the KarmicTwistEnding before ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' ever aired. (They stayed clear of the CruelTwistEnding.)
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EC Comics was founded by Maxwell Gaines in 1944 as "Educational Comics", with the aim of producing fact-based comic books marketed at churches and schools. After his death in 1947, his son William M. Gaines inherited the business, re-branding it as "Entertaining Comics" and producing titles in more typical commercially-oriented genres: {{Western}}, CrimeFiction, romance. Then, starting in 1949, the younger Gaines began introducing the "New Trend" series focusing on {{Horror}} (''Tales from the Crypt'', ''The Vault of Horror'', ''The Haunt of Fear''), crime (''Crime [=SuspenStories=]''), realistically depicted war (''Two-Fisted Tales'', ''Frontline Combat''), ScienceFiction (''Weird Science'', ''Weird Fantasy''), or some mixture of the above (''Shock [=SuspenStories=]''). The horror, science fiction fiction, and crime stories almost invariably had a TwistEnding. TwistEnding, and EC made was making extensive use of the KarmicTwistEnding before ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' ever aired. (They stayed clear of the CruelTwistEnding.)
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* GoryDiscretionShot: Ironically, despite their infamous nature, EC's lineup very rarely showed the nitty gritty of the violence on panel. Usually, they would show a panel of the danger approaching their victim, then it would cut to the next panel showing the (often bloody) aftermath. If we do get to see it, the victim is almost always just off-panel, with an arm/leg or two to make it clear they're getting the chop. The exception seems to be gunshot wounds, which happen quite frequently.
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* ContemptibleCover: EC's horror and crime books, while ''still'' more restrained than some of their imitators, were often ''exceedingly'' violent for the era in their cover material -- an excellent advertising and sales tactic on the newsstand, but one that earned them the enmity of teachers, parents' associations and clergy before they even read a single page (if they could stand to). Infamous among them was [[https://bleedingcool.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/cri1.597a-1.jpg the "severed head" cover]] from ''Crime Suspenstories'' #22, which Gaines unwisely tried to argue wasn't in bad taste at the Senate hearings, [[DiggingYourselfDeeper because it only showed the axe covered in blood and the woman's head separate from her body, not the bloody stump of her neck.]]
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* {{Mondegreen}}: The twist of the ''Shock [=SuspenStories=]'' tale "Raw Deal". [[spoiler:The man they rescued from sea? He's not screaming that he ''hates'' his wife, he's screaming that he ''ate'' his wife.]]
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* {{Mondegreen}}: MondegreenGag: The twist of the ''Shock [=SuspenStories=]'' tale "Raw Deal". [[spoiler:The man they rescued from sea? He's not screaming that he ''hates'' his wife, he's screaming that he ''ate'' his wife.]]
