William Gaines

American publisher, known for EC Comics and Mad Magazine · United States · On the map · Artists · Lived 1922 to 1992 · aged 70

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.

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