Trivia / EC Comics

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• Creator Backlash: One of the artists on the series, Jack Davis, was happy working at EC, but he later admitted he didn't much care for horror comics, and greatly preferred working on their Two-Fisted Tales comics. He particularly felt the "Foul Play" storyline went way too far with its gore.
  "I really got a little—not upset, but (it got) a little gory. And I don't particularly like that. What sells, sells, and at that time I was hungry, I had just married and we were in the apartment and I had to pay the rent. I didn't really enjoy drawing them, especially my wife didn't particularly care for it. I didn't have any children then, so I really didn't feel any responsibility. All I wanted to do then was to make that buck and keep drawing and doing something that I knew I could do. ...It got pretty gruesome, but it was all, in a way, a kind of tongue-in-cheek thing."
• Referenced by...: The Fabulous Fear Machine is an RTS video game homage to EC Comics - from a similar art style to comeuppance stories about villain protagonists. The main menu of the game even resembles an EC Comics cover.
• The Shelf of Movie Languishment: Going Steady with Peggy, the first comic drawn by Al Feldstein for EC Comics, was canceled prior to publication because of a sudden plunge in demand for Follow the Leader imitations of Archie Comics.
• What Could Have Been: In 1948, a teenager aimed comic Going Steady With Peggy was planned in order to ride the coattails of then-hot teenager comics like Archie, but the market for them abruptly fell out before the first story even left the drawing board, resulting in the project being scrapped.

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