{"id":3259,"date":"2021-02-16T07:28:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T15:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=3259"},"modified":"2021-01-18T16:16:13","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T00:16:13","slug":"580-ec-under-siege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/580-ec-under-siege\/","title":{"rendered":"580 &#8211; EC Under Siege"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"808\" height=\"834\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ec-under-fire-piracy.png\" alt=\"An ad from Crypt of Terror #45, August 1954\" class=\"wp-image-3261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ec-under-fire-piracy.png 808w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ec-under-fire-piracy-291x300.png 291w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ec-under-fire-piracy-768x793.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 808px) 100vw, 808px\" \/><figcaption>An ad from Crypt of Terror #45, August 1954<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In DC&#8217;s Watchmen timeline, superheroes did not have a resurgence in popularity in comic books in the late 1950s.  Instead, pirate-themed comic books took over the industry with &#8220;Tales of the Black Freighter&#8221; being popular.  This apparently is based in some reality:  EC&#8217;s Crypt of Terror #45 (August 1954), includes the above ad where they admit desperately trying to come up with a new trend in comics:  Piracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were other signs that EC was on the brink in this issue, including a call for people to write in to save comics from persecution:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ec-under-fire.png\" alt=\"A cry for help from Crypt of Terror #45, August 1954.\" class=\"wp-image-3262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ec-under-fire.png 350w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ec-under-fire-217x300.png 217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><figcaption>A cry for help from Crypt of Terror #45, August 1954.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In DC&#8217;s Watchmen timeline, superheroes did not have a resurgence in popularity in comic books in the late 1950s. Instead, pirate-themed comic books took over the industry with &#8220;Tales of the Black Freighter&#8221; being popular. This apparently is based in some reality: EC&#8217;s Crypt of Terror #45 (August 1954), includes the above ad where they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[547,350,559,553,292],"class_list":["post-3259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-547","tag-ec","tag-pirates","tag-superhero-revival","tag-watchmen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259","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=3259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3263,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259\/revisions\/3263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}