The Complete Piracy/Aces High/Psychoanalysis/Extra!

    (RCP, 1988)
® and ©1988 William M. Gaines, Agent

In late 1954, EC Comics was in serious trouble. When Dr. Wertham went on his tirade about all of the “dangerous” material appearing in comic books affecting our children, most of the finger pointed in the direction of EC, the company that was consistently outselling a number of other publishers’ titles, and thus deemed to be the cause of juvenile delinquency. At first, EC tried to defend their titles, but when distribution dried up, the crime and horror titles were canceled in favor of a “New Direction”. This box set compiles the complete runs of some of these titles (the Complete Valor/MD/Impact comprises the rest). The high quality of art and writing that is expected from EC continued, but after 5 issues (7 for Piracy), publisher William M. Gaines pulled the plug.

— Mark Arnold
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