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Proceeds from the cover will benefit the non-profit organization's First Amendment legal and education work. It's also our understanding that Secret Weapons #1, the first issue of the new series from Heisserer – it is just possible you may have heard Valiant say he was the screenwriter of Arrival and Valiant's upcoming Bloodshot feature film –[...]

The cover depicts a woman hideously decapitated in a horrendous fashion, seemingly by an axe, with lurid cover copy revelling in the sensational and grotesque aspects of the image as being in the "tradition" of the lax editorial standards of the publisher, at a time when such violent acts are at a record high. On Twitter,[...]

House Sub committee that led to the creation of the Comics Code, EC Publisher William Gaines was taking weight medication that is now commonly known as speed. Much has been made of his testimony at the trial, considered a little odd, aggressive and confrontative This might explain why… Tash Moore reports from the CBLDF panel at[...]

I think this is the definition of irony: one of the most famous moments of the 1954 Senate Hearings which helped prompt the comic book industry to create the Comics Code is an exchange between Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver and EC Publisher William Gaines, during which the Senator questioned Gaines about the cover of Crime[...]