EC Comics: Race, Shock, and Social Protest

by Qiana J Whitted and Qiana Whitted

Book Overview

2020 Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work

Entertaining Comics Group (EC Comics) is perhaps best-known today for lurid horror comics like Tales from the Crypt and for a publication that long outlived the company's other titles, Mad magazine. But during its heyday in the early 1950s, EC was also an early innovator in another genre of comics: the so-called "preachies," socially conscious stories that boldly challenged...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813566320
• ISBN13: 9780813566320
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher