Editing EC Comics (section)

=== 1944–1950: Founding of publisher as Educational Comics<!--'Educational Comics' redirects here--> ===
[[File:60 Spring St CG bank at Lafayette jeh.jpg|thumb|225 Lafayette Street, home of EC Comics]]
The firm, first known as Educational Comics, was founded by [[Maxwell Gaines|Max Gaines]], former editor of the comic-book company [[All-American Publications]], and it was initially a shell company of All-American. When that company merged with [[DC Comics]] in June 1945,{{sfn|Schelly|2008}} Gaines retained rights to the comic book ''Picture Stories from the Bible'', and began his new company using the EC name with a plan to market comics about science, history, and the [[Bible]] to schools and churches, and soon expanded to produce children's humor titles.{{sfn|Booker|2014}} 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]].{{sfn|Goulart|2004}}