 EC
Comics
(Entertaining Comics) were all published from the late 1940s
until around 1956, when the Comics Code Authority
whitewashed all comic books to remove all themes
of horror and violence. Psychiatrist Fredric
Wertham and Senator Estes Kefauver's Committee on
Juvenile Delinquency attacked horror comics as
causes of the rise in juvenile delinquency and
crimes by minors. These comic books were accused
of having no redeeming value to society and were
effectively banned by the actions of these groups
in creating the Comics Code. EC Comics were
superior to other comics of the 1950s because of a
higher quality of writing and artwork, and they
were widely imitated by other comics publishers.
The subject matter for EC Comics were horror,
science fiction/fantasy, crime stories, war
stories, and stories with a socail message that
generally had a twist or "shock" ending. Each EC
Archive volume will reprint six complete issues.
 Disney
Comics - Gemstone Publishing, through a licensing agreement
with Disney Publishing Worldwide, is offering a variety of comic
books featuring Disney's line of standard characters. Mickey,
Minnie, Donald, Uncle Scrooge, Daisy, Goofy, Gyro, and other
favorites will star in a series of monthly and bimonthly comic
books.
 In
1985 a new division was founded, Gladstone Publishing, which
took up the then-dormant Disney comic book license. Gladstone
introduced a whole new generation of Disney comic book readers to
the wondrous storytelling of such luminaries as Barks, Paul Murry,
and Floyd Gottfredson, as well as presenting the first works
of modern Disney comics masters Don Rosa and William Van
Horn. The company was based in Scottsdale, Arizona, until
January of 1987, when the whole shootinŽ match was packed and hauled
up to the mile-high community of Prescott, the one-time territorial
capitol of Arizona. Following this move, along with continuing to
bring out Disney comics (except for a three-year hiatus at the
beginning of the 1990s) and Carl Barks lithographs, there were
interesting sojourns into the realms of EC Comics and Dick
Tracy comic strip reprints.
Diamond International Galleries is the
headquarters for an almost limitless array of comics, original comic
art, posters, animation cells and backgrounds, drawings, oils,
antique toys- literally, the world?s finest and most comprehensive
inventory of collectibles and memorabilia.
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