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Maxwell Charles Gaines (born Max Ginzberg, September 21, 1894 – August 20, 1947) was an American publisher and a pioneering figure in the creation of the modern comic book. [3] [4] In 1933, Gaines devised the first four-color, saddle-stitched newsprint pamphlet ( Funnies on Parade ), a precursor to the color-comics format that became the ...
Jul 22, 2021 · The Greatest EC Comics. When Max Gaines died in 1947 from a boating accident, he left the family business, EC Comics Company (which stood for alternately Entertaining Comics and Educational Comics), to his son William “Bill” Gaines.
Max Gaines. Born Maxwell Ginzberg, often credited as M.C. Gaines. Gaines and Jack Leibowitz were co-publishers for All-American Publications, home of Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, and others....
Apr 29, 2004 · Max Gaines is rightly credited as the Father of the Comic Book, writes Digby Diehl in Tales from the Crypt: The Official Archives. By the mid-40s Max had his own company, which he...
Maxwell Charles Gaines (c. 1894 - August 20, 1947) was a pioneering figure in the creation of the modern comic book. Born Maxwell Ginsburg or Maxwell Ginzberg, he was also known as Max Gaines, M.C. Gaines and Charlie Gaines.
Maxwell Charles Gaines (c. 1894 - August 20, 1947) was a pioneering figure in the creation of the modern comic book. Born Maxwell Ginsburg or Maxwell Ginzberg, he was also known as Max Gaines, M.C. Gaines and Charlie Gaines.
A decade earlier, Max Gaines had been one of the pioneers of the comic book form, with Eastern Color Printing's proto-comic book Funnies on Parade, and with Dell Publishing's Famous Funnies: A Carnival of Comics, considered by historians the first true American comic book.
