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13 SPACE PORT WITH ROCKET AND SPACE PEOPLE C.1952
MAGNETIC OM GAMESWeRe MONG THE F!.RST
TOYS AOAPTED FOR HE GROWING POPU1.AR Y OF
au ER SPAC TO THE ASE WITH WHIcH THE LI 0
GRAPHIC;; PLATES WERE CHANGED TO REDECORATE
THEM THE" ROCKET PATROL GAME CONTAINE"O ALL
THE CHARACTERISTICS OF A PRODUCT BORN OF
COMMERC;; AL EXPE'DIENCY. TI-lE &ASIC PLAY PAT
TERN- IMING MAGNET~TIPPED DARTS TARGETS
ON A LITHOGRAPHED TIN BOARc-REMA1NED
UNCHANGED FROM EARL1ER VERSIONS UNREI.A.TED
TO SPAce ,HE ~NAME.A-STATE"DART GAM ON THE
BOARD'S REVERSE SlOE MAY HAVE REfLECTED THE
MANUFACTURER'S SKEPTICISM ABOUT 11+10 ENDURING
PPPULARlTY OF SPACE-THEMED PRODUCT.
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EC COMICS' W FIRO SCI ENCE AND WEIRD FANTASYW ERE DUE TO POOR SALES RESULTING FROM POLITICAL PRES
BIMONTHLY SCIENCE-FI CTI ON COMIC BOOKS PUBLIS HED SURE PLACED ON EC' S DISTRIBUTORS, WEIRO S CI ENCE
BY BILL GAINES (192 2- 92 ) IN THE EARLY 1950S. GAINES AND WEI RD FANTASYW ERE MERGED IN 19 54 TO BECOME
ALSO PUB LISHED THE HORR OR TITLES TALES FROM THE WEIRD SCIENCE-FANTASY. AFTER JUST SEVEN ISSUES, THE
CRYPT; THE VAUL T OF HORRO~ AND THE HAUN-TOF FEAR. TITLE WAS CHANGED TO INCREDI BLE SC.lENCE FIC TION TO
IN A CROWDED FIELD. EC' S COMI C BOOKS STOOD OUT DU E FURTHER APPEASE THE COMICS CODE AUTH ORIT Y THAT
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TO. THEI R S UPERIO R ARTWORK AND IRONIC PLOT TWIS TS. HAD RESTRICTED THE USE OF THE WO RDS "HORROR"'AND
WEI RD SC.lENCE AND WEIRD FAN TAS Y, IN PARTICULAR, "TERROR" WHILE TARGETING GAINES' PUBLICATIO NS.
OFTEN FEATURED SOPHI STICATED STORYLINES 'TOUCH
WHEN THE CODE ADMINISTRATOR DEMANDED THE
ING ON ADULT ISSUES, SUCH AS RACIAL INJUSTICE AND
REMOVAL OF AN AFRICAN AMERICAN ASTRONAUT FEA
SOCIAL INEQUALITY.
TURED IN THE POW ERFVL ANTI- RACI SM STORY "iTUDGE
WHILE EC' S WlnTING WAS IMPRESSIVE, THE COMICS' .MENT DAY!" IN .fNCRE0I8L E SCIENCE F!CTI ON(NO. 33),
REMARKABLE IMAGERY IS WHAT MOST DIS TINGUIS HED GAINES REFUSED. HE PRINTED THE STORY UNCHAN GED A~D
THE COMPANY FROM ITS COMPETITORS. GAINES PRO CEASED PUBLICATION OF HI S ENTIRE LINE OF COMICS
MOTED HIS ILLUSTRATORS AS ARTISTS WORTHY OF EXCEPT ONE, THE SATIRICAL' MAD, WHICH WAS CHANGED
RECOGNITION AND ATI RACTED A REMARKABLE STABL E OF TO A MAGAZINE FORMAT TO ESCAPE CENSORSHIP BY THE
TALENT I NCLUDING WALLY WOOD (1927-81), JACK DAVIS COMI CS CODE AUTHORIT Y.
(8. 19 24), AND AL FELDSTEIN (B. ,gZ5), THE COMICS' EDITOR
EC COMIC BOOKS HAVE REMAINED POPULAR THROUGHOUT
WHO WROTE, DREW, AND PRODUCED MOST OF THE COVER
THE PAST FIFTY YEARS, AND ALTHOUGH ANY REMA INING
ILLUSTRATIONS FOR THE SERIES.
ORI GINAL COPIES ARE PROBABLY HIDDEN AWAY BY THEIR
ALTHOUGH GAINES' PUBLICATIONS MAY HAVE APPEALED OWNERS IN PROTECTIVE SLEEVES, NEW GENERATIONS OF
TO ADULTS, THEY W ERE CLEAR LY' MARKET ED FOR CHILDREN, FANS CONTINUE TO ~ISCOVE R THEM THRpU GH REPRINTS
AND THE COMICS' GRAPHIC CONTENT ATI RACTED STRONG OF THE ORIGINAL COMIC BOOK S AND IN HARDBOUND
CRITICISM FOR ITS ALLEGED HARMFUL EFFECT ON CHIL ANTHOLOGI ES.
DREN. AFTER AN UNAPOLOGETIC GAINES TESTIFIED BEFORE
A SENATE SUBCOMMITIEE ON J UVENILE DELINQUENCY IN
19 54, THE NATIONAL PRESS DEPICTED HI M AS AN AMORAL
PUBLISHER CORRUPTING THE YOUTH OF AMERICA.
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