Psychoanalysis

    (E.C., 1955)
™ and © William M. Gaines, Agent

Psychoanalysis was perhaps the strangest of EC’s “New Direction” comics. Leaving behind their controversial horror and crime comics, the New Direction comics were an attempt to find interesting topics which could still receive the “Approved by the Comics Code” stamp necessary for many avenues of distribution.

Psychoanalysis featured three “case files” per issue, with an all-knowing Freudian psychiatrist interviewing the patients to get to the heart of their life’s problems. By analyzing dreams, conversational slips and other “uncensored views of the subconscious,” the psychiatrist would cast new light on hidden torments. Inevitably, these were revealed to be caused by unhappy childhoods and overbearing or unloving parents. Perhaps the most unbelievable part was that the patients were “cured” after just a couple of sessions, whereas psychoanalysis in the real world often stretches on for years.
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#2

May, 1955
Cover Price: $0.10
1 copy available for $25.00 		 Jack Kamen
#3

July, 1955
Cover Price: $0.10
1 copy available for $35.00 		 Jack Kamen