{"id":3072,"date":"2020-12-23T07:54:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T15:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=3072"},"modified":"2020-11-26T00:12:18","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T08:12:18","slug":"544-destruction-of-ec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/544-destruction-of-ec\/","title":{"rendered":"544 &#8211; Destruction of EC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"666\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/ec-destruction-1.png\" alt=\"A panel from Weird Science #21, June 1953\" class=\"wp-image-3073\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/ec-destruction-1.png 750w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/ec-destruction-1-300x266.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from Weird Science #21, June 1953<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In Weird Science #21 (June 1953), the story &#8220;EC Confidential!&#8221; depicts Phineas T. Fables, the president of the fictional Fables Publishing Company calling Al Feldstein and William Gaines to his office to discuss the many weird coincidences of EC comic stories coming true.  The president plans to fire them when Martians abruptly burst in and slaughter the entire staff.  Thought it turns out that Feldstein and Gaines were ready for the Martians, planting decoys to fool them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"770\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/ec-destruction-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3074\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/ec-destruction-2.png 770w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/ec-destruction-2-300x272.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/ec-destruction-2-768x696.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><figcaption>Another panel from Weird Science #21, June 1953<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sharks may have been circling EC Comics at this time as sales of their horror and sci-fi comics continued to climb&#8230;. maybe this story was a way of encouraging the writers, artists, etc to stick with EC as pressures from competitors began to mount?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Weird Science #21 (June 1953), the story &#8220;EC Confidential!&#8221; depicts Phineas T. Fables, the president of the fictional Fables Publishing Company calling Al Feldstein and William Gaines to his office to discuss the many weird coincidences of EC comic stories coming true. The president plans to fire them when Martians abruptly burst in and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[525,463,350,417],"class_list":["post-3072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-525","tag-al-feldstein","tag-ec","tag-william-gaines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3072","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=3072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3075,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3072\/revisions\/3075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}