Editing William Gaines (section)

==Personal life==
Gaines's first marriage was arranged by his mother. He was married to his second cousin Hazel Grieb. They announced their plans to divorce in August 1947.<ref>{{cite book|last=Hajdu|first=David|title=The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How it Changed America|year=2008|publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux|location=New York, NY|isbn=9780374187675|page=[https://archive.org/details/tencentplaguegre00hajd/page/90 90]|url=https://archive.org/details/tencentplaguegre00hajd/page/90}}</ref> According to ''Completely Mad: A History of the Comic Book and Magazine'' by [[Maria Reidelbach]], Gaines married Nancy Siegel in 1955. They had three children, Cathy (1958), Wendy (1959), and Christopher (1961). They divorced in 1971. In 1987 he married Anne Griffiths. They remained married until his death in 1992.<ref name="Barron"/>

Gaines was an [[atheist]] since the age of 12; he once told a reporter that his was probably the only home in America in which the children were brought up to believe in [[Santa Claus]], but not in [[God]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Jacobs |first=Frank |author-link=Frank Jacobs |title=The Mad World of William M. Gaines |location=Secaucus |publisher=Lyle Stuart |year=1972 |oclc=639071}}</ref>{{page needed|date=April 2016}}