{"id":2050,"date":"2020-02-07T08:18:32","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T16:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=2050"},"modified":"2020-02-15T11:32:39","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T19:32:39","slug":"319-ec-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/319-ec-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"319 &#8211; EC Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/ec-begins-996x1024.png\" alt=\"The cover of Picture Stories from the Bible #3, June 1946\" class=\"wp-image-2051\" width=\"580\" height=\"596\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/ec-begins-996x1024.png 996w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/ec-begins-292x300.png 292w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/ec-begins-768x790.png 768w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/ec-begins.png 1138w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><figcaption>The cover of Picture Stories from the Bible #3, June 1946<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1944, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Max_Gaines\">Max Gaines<\/a> had sold the rights to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/62-all-american\/\">All-American<\/a> characters (Green Lantern, The Atom, Doctor Mid-Nite) and titles to DC, keeping the rights to &#8220;Picture Stories from the Bible&#8221;.  By June 1946, Gaines had started publishing comics as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/EC_Comics\">EC<\/a>, Educational Comics.  Within a year or so, EC would switch to &#8220;Entertaining Comics&#8221; and veer away from the educational scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1944, Max Gaines had sold the rights to the All-American characters (Green Lantern, The Atom, Doctor Mid-Nite) and titles to DC, keeping the rights to &#8220;Picture Stories from the Bible&#8221;. By June 1946, Gaines had started publishing comics as EC, Educational Comics. Within a year or so, EC would switch to &#8220;Entertaining Comics&#8221; and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[341,71,14,350,70,396],"class_list":["post-2050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-341","tag-all-american","tag-dc","tag-ec","tag-max-gaines","tag-superhero-collapse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2050"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2059,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2050\/revisions\/2059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}