Note: New Direction title.

Note: Fandom has called this title "Blackstone the Magician Detective Fights Crime" for decades and claimed it to be the longest comic title. However, the indicia title is just "Blackstone."

Note: Scarce EC promotional comic book. Copyright 1948 by the National Lutheran Council, 231 Madison Ave., New York, 16, NY. Produced by Educational Comics, Inc., publishers of Picture Stories from the Bible, 225 Lafayette St., New York, 12, NY.

Note: Picto-Fiction title.

Note: Picto-Fiction title.

Note: In 1950, EC publisher Gaines and his editor Al Feldstein discovered they shared similar tastes in horror and began experimenting with horror tales in their crime titles. Tales from the Crypt traces its origin to a Feldstein story, "Return from the Grave!", in EC's Crime Patrol (#15, December 1949/January 1950) with the Crypt-Keeper making his debut as host. Issue #16 featured more horror tales than crime stories, and, with issue #17, the title changed from Crime Patrol to The Crypt of Terror. Due to an attempt to save money on second-class postage permits, the numbering did not change with the title and continued as The Crypt of Terror for the next two issues.

Note: Giveaway for the American Museum of Natural History. Actual publication date not known. Date an educated guess.

Note: New Direction title.

Note: Adapted from Fred Von Bernewitz's Official EC Index.

Note: Editing of this title per Geissman, G. & F. von Bernowitz. 2002. Tales of Terror: #15(#1)-#5 Bill Gaines [as William M. Gaines] (editor), #16(#2)-#5 Bill Gaines [as William M. Gaines] (editor) & Al Feldstein (associate editor), #6 onward Al Feldstein (editor).

Note: From Mutual Networks radio show of that name.

Note: Prepared for Commercial Materials Center, Columbia University, by Educational Comics, Inc. Scarce EC promotional comic book; first Kurtzman work for EC; venereal disease prevention; subtitled "The Story of That Ignorant, Ignorant Cowboy".

Note: New Direction title.

Note: MAD became magazine size with issue #24 onward at editor Harvey Kurtzman's request (he had been offered a lucrative job at a magazine and was going to take it if the change was not made). According to Bill Gaines (the publisher), it was not changed to avoid Comics Code Authority oversight. The title was "rebooted" after #550 with a new #1 in 2018 after a change in the offices from New York to Los Angeles. website: www.dccomics.com/mad/

Note: Colored reprints from Mad (EC, 1952 Series).

Note: Indicia: Fall '70 [#1] = The Fall '70 MAD Special; Spring '71 [#2] = The Spring '71 MAD SPECIAL; #3-#10 = MAD SPECIAL; #11-#14 = MAD SUPER SPECIAL; #15 = MAD SPECIAL; #16-#17 = MAD SUPER-SPECIAL; #18-#20 = MAD SUPER SPECIAL; #21-#24 = MAD SPECIAL; #25-#29 = MAD SUPER SPECIAL; #30 = MAD SPRING '80 SUPER SPECIAL; #31 = MAD SUMMER 1980 SUPER SPECIAL; and so on.

Note: Mostly reprints of older Superman parodies, with some new material for Man of Steel near the end.

Note: This title replaced the Mad Super Special magazines.

Note: Issues #7 and #8 had "Fights Crime" added on the cover to the "Moon Girl" title. This led collectors' publications such as the Overstreet Price Guide to list those two issues as a separate series "Moon Girl Fights Crime". They were also originally added to the GCD as a separate series. However, the indicia and the copyright registrations referring to those issues still said "Moon Girl", so that is their official title.

Note: The indicia title for this series was MOON GIRL.

Note: Based on public affairs pamphlet "What foreign trade means to you." Published by The East and West Association and the Public Affairs Committee, Inc. Produced by Educational Comics Inc., 225 Lafayette St.m N. Y. C.

Note: Feldstein edited version of Mad

Note: No month of publication given in issue #1, but year is 1945. #5 and #6 (as well as Picture Stories of Mythology) were perennially listed as forthcoming but never appeared. All-American publications in Summer 1945 listed this title along with all eleven titles it published at that time (for example, Green Lantern, Flash Comics, and Wonder Woman) on page 2 (for example, Green Lantern #16), but this title did not appear with an All-American bullet on its cover.

Note: Likely that with the sixth printing, this item was reprinted with no connection to DC.

Note: Issue #3 listed as "Part 3" in the indicia (not #3).

Note: New Direction title.

Note: New Direction title.

Note: Cover title is "Mad's Sergio Aragonés on Parade."

Note: Picto-Fiction title.

Note: Reprints the Mad comic book issues #1-23.

Note: As with the other EC comics edited by Al Feldstein, the stories in this comic were primarily based on publisher William Gaines reading a large number of horror stories and using them to develop "springboards" from which he and Feldstein could launch new stories. After their unauthorized adaptation of one of Ray Bradbury's stories in another magazine, Bradbury contacted EC about their plagiarism of his work. They reached an agreement for EC to do authorized versions of Bradbury's short fiction. The Crypt-Keeper was the primary host of Tales from the Crypt. He was introduced to the public in Crime Patrol #15, and he continued with that magazine through its changes in title and format.

Note: Contents vary. Contains four rebound unsold E.C. issues.