William Maxwell "Bill" Gaines (/ ɡ eɪ n z /; March 1, 1922 – June 3, 1992) 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 …

William Maxwell Gaines (born March 1, 1922, New York, New York, U.S.—died June 3, 1992, New York City) was an American publisher who launched Mad magazine (1952), an irreverent monthly with humorous illustrations and writing that satirized mass media, politicians, celebrities, and comic books.

Mad (stylized as MAD) is an American humor magazine which was launched in 1952 and currently published by DC Comics, a unit of the DC Entertainment subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery. Mad was founded by editor Harvey Kurtzman and publisher William Gaines, [2] launched as a comic book series before it became a magazine.

1992年6月4日 · William M. Gaines, the iconoclastic founder and publisher of the 40-year-old satirical magazine Mad, died Wednesday. He was 70. Gaines died in his sleep at his Manhattan...

2024年9月2日 · Bill Gaines transformed ‘MAD’ from a comic into a magazine so it couldn’t be censored. He went on to publish ‘MAD’ for over 40 years. Illustration: Drew Friedman

William Maxwell Gaines (March 1, 1922 – June 3, 1992), better known as 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...

What does Lady Liberty have to do with William M. Gaines, founder of MAD Magazine? Actually, a lot. At one time Gaines had the world's largest private collection of Statue of Liberty Memorabilia.

2019年6月4日 · The definitive Gaines bio is “The MAD World of William M. Gaines” by long-time MAD scribe Frank Jacobs, an excellent read that follows Gaines’s life from a child, the son of Max Gaines who is considered by some the founder of the modern American comic book, on through the senate hearings on comic books and their supposed subversive ...

William M. Gaines. Writer: Perversions of Science. Willim Gaines became one of the most important figures in comic book and humor history by accident. Gaines' father, M.C. (Max) Gaines, was the publisher of Educational Comics (EC). When the elder Gaines died in 1947 as a result of freak boating accident, the younger Gaines found himself publisher.

The words of William M. Gaines. Born on March 1, 1922 in New York City, Bill was the son of Max "M.C." Gaines, creator & publisher of the very first comic books, including Famous Funnies and Carnival of Comics in 1933/34, which he packaged for department stores.