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    upside-down. Kurtzman's war titles ceased following the end of the Korean War in 1953, and Mad went from bi-monthly to monthly in 1954. Kurtzman pushed to...
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  • stated that "if Harvey [Kurtzman] had not gotten that offer from Pageant, Mad probably would not have changed format." After Kurtzman's departure in 1956...
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  • William Gaines (category Mad (magazine) people)
    run. (For details of this event and the subsequent debates about it, see Harvey Kurtzman's editorship of Mad.) Feldstein oversaw Mad from 1955 through...
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  • throughout the 23-issue run of the book; Severin, a mainstay of Kurtzman's EC war comics, left the comic book by the tenth issue. Kurtzman included his own finished...
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  • EC Comics (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from February 2024)
    2000, p. 211. Doctorow, Cory (March 22, 2013). "MAD Artist's Edition: a massive tribute to Harvey Kurtzman". Boing Boing. Retrieved May 20, 2019. Rogers...
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    Joe Kubert (category American people of Polish-Jewish descent)
    Worlds and other titles. For EC Comics, Kubert drew a few stories for Harvey Kurtzman's Two-Fisted Tales alongside EC stalwarts Wally Wood, Jack Davis, and...
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    Gene Colan (category Fashion Institute of Technology faculty)
    the cult-hit satiric series Howard the Duck, and The Tomb of Dracula, considered one of comics' classic horror series. He co-created the Falcon, the...
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    Otto Binder (category American people of German descent)
    The Steranko History of Comics 2. Reading, Pennsylvania: Supergraphics. p. 21. ISBN 0-517-50188-0. Hahn, Joel (ed.). "Harvey Award Winners Summary"...
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  • Al Williamson (category Harvey Award winners)
    script a Harvey Comics story, "The Hermit", penciled by Reed Crandall and inked by Williamson. From 1955 to 1957, Williamson produced over 400 pages of three-to-five-page...
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    Sheldon Moldoff (category American military personnel of World War II)
    his early work on the DC Comics characters Hawkman and Hawkgirl, and as one of Bob Kane's primary "ghost artists" (uncredited collaborators) on the superhero...
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    Sergio Aragonés (category Mad (magazine) cartoonists)
    Spanish-Mexican cartoonist and writer best known for his contributions to Mad magazine and creating the comic book Groo the Wanderer. Among his peers and...
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  • issues of Lev Gleason Publications' Daredevil in 1951. Wessler began writing for Atlas Comics in November 1950 with the six-page story "The Mad Monk" about...
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  • comic book writer, playwright and concert impresario, notable as the founder of the Island Concert Hall recital series which ran for 15 years on Long Island...
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  • Jack Oleck (category United States Army personnel of World War II)
    temporary collapse of the industry following the publication of Fredric Wertham's Seduction of the Innocent and the establishment of the Comics Code Authority...
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  • Ric Estrada (category Art Students League of New York alumni)
    the late fifties he drew almost half the satirical articles of the first two issues of the Mad magazine imitator Frantic. After that he moved to Germany...
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    Al Feldstein (category Mad (magazine) people)
    Gaines to shut down most of his EC titles, Feldstein was briefly separated from the company. But when Harvey Kurtzman left Mad in 1956, Gaines turned to...
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  • Nick Meglin (category Mad (magazine) people)
    for the satirical magazine Mad. He also scripted Superfan, a 1970s comic strip by Jack Davis. He was active as a lyricist of musical theatre, and had columns...
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    wave of EC fanzines that followed, the best-known was Ron Parker's Hoo-Hah!. After that came fanzines by the followers of Harvey Kurtzman's Mad, Trump...
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