Line #1 YMMV/ECComics


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2	* {{Anvilicious}}: The "social issue" tales in ''Shock Suspense Stories'' and, occasionally, in the SF/fantasy titles. (It's noteworthy that the in-house term for these pieces was "preachies.") The post-Code ''Impact'' was ''made'' of this.
3	* SugarWiki/AwesomeArt: EC's greatest legacy is their stable of artists. All of their regular artists are regarded as legends. While the writing is generally considered to be [[NarmCharm cheesy, predictable yet fun and occasionally powerful]], nobody can question the quality of the artwork.
4	* CommonKnowledge: The notion that the CCA destroyed EC Comics isn't true, though they tried their damnedest. By the time the backlash hit, EC's best selling title (now a magazine) was MAD, whose sales weren't hurt at all by the controversy. The company was sold in the early 60s, but William Gaines notes this was for "tax reasons", and for the most part everyone kept their jobs and MAD remained under Gaines' editorship until 1986.
5	** Related is the idea that the CCA went after EC because they sold comics based around SplatterHorror and [[SexSells cleavage]]. EC certainly pushed boundaries on those fronts, which the MoralGuardians used to villify them... but the stories that really upset a certain variety of authority were their scathing social commentaries like "Judgement Day" and "Let the Punishment Fit the Crime!". Subverting traditional values, indeed.
6	* CompleteMonster: See [[Monster/ECComics here]].
7	* HilariousInHindsight: In one of EC's early "Animal Fables" comics, a top billed recurring character is a little guy called Danny the Devil, predating a more well known comic book devil, Harvey's "Hot Stuff the Little Devil", by a decade.
8	** In "Kamen's Calamity", a comic artist is almost fired when they shifted from romance to horror comics, simply because he kept drawing monsters too pretty, with one person telling him [[Literature/TheTwilightSaga "Who ever heard of a charming, sweet-lookin' vampire?!"]]
9	** A story about sentient robots titled "Judgement Day"? [[{{Franchise/Terminator}} Haven't heard that one before]].
10	* MagnificentBastard: "The Orphan": [[SelfMadeOrphan Lucy]] is a troubled young girl with an abusive, violent father, while her mother does nothing to protect her. When Lucy finds that her mother is having an affair and plans to abandon her with her lover Steve, she shoots her father and [[FrameUp frames her mother]] for the crime. [[WoundedGazelleGambit Playing the role of a traumatized bystander]] to win sympathy from the jury, Lucy gets her mother and Steve executed for the crime, while remaining completely above suspicion. Narrating her story with a guileless charm, Lucy gets the reader on her side as well, even playfully confiding her secret to them in the last panel.
11	* NightmareFuel: [[NightmareFuel/ECComics Has its own page!]]
12	* NightmareRetardant: The creators didn't always get it quite right, and reuse of certain scenes by later artists has reduced the shock factor considerably when readers see the original.
13	* ValuesDissonance: 'Mau Mau!" which, while attempting to be anti-racist, portrayed anti-colonial rebels in the most stereotypical way possible and had the "progressive" message that Africans can be good if they become servants of the colonial regime.
14	* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: Their comics were targeted towards people who were at least teenagers due to their dark and gory content and political messages, but newstands often sold them alongside more family-friendly comics due to immediately association the medium with children, which set off a wave of MoralGuardians panicking as a result of incompetence.

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