# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-gaines
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:38:37.082Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-gaines"
name: "William Gaines"
slug: "william-gaines"
description: "William Maxwell \"Bill\" Gaines was an American publisher and co-editor of EC Comics. Following a shift in EC's direction in 1950, Gaines presided over what became an artistically influential and historically important line of mature-audience comics. He published the satirical magazine Mad for over 40 years."
tagline: "American publisher, known for EC Comics and Mad Magazine"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Photo_of_William_Gaines_(1972)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1922-03-01"
deathDate: "1992-06-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.22
  momentum:             19.35374149659864
  historical:           8.485253333333333
  currentAttention:     5.720000000000001
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0301362/"
    handle:    "nm0301362"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Gaines"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "ويليام جاينيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gaines"
    title: "William Gaines"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Maxwell_Gaines"
    title: "William Maxwell Gaines"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gaines"
    title: "William Gaines"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gaines"
    title: "William Gaines"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gaines"
    title: "William Gaines"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gaines"
    title: "William Gaines"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gaines"
    title: "William Gaines"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q323066"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/121683"
    title: "William Gaines"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump