{"id":10258,"date":"2025-09-17T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/plugoarts.com\/blog\/?p=10258"},"modified":"2025-08-21T20:12:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T03:12:14","slug":"out-today-catacomb-of-torment-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plugoarts.com\/blog\/out-today-catacomb-of-torment-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Out Today! Catacomb of Torment #3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The birthplace of TALES FROM THE CRYPT, MAD MAGAZINE, WEIRD SCIENCE, and more of the most influential and celebrated comic series published, EC Comics cemented itself as one of the central nerves of American pop culture. Its legacy spans more than seven decades. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Established, in 1944, as “Educational Comics” by founder M.C. Gaines it was later rebranded “Entertaining Comics” under the leadership of Publisher & Editor William M. Gaines who led a creative renaissance for the comics industry. Heralded as “one of the great explosions of vox-pop literature” by Time Magazine and “fiercely honest, politically adversarial, [and] visually masterful” by The Comics Journal, EC’s line of comics books – which collectively sold more than 10 million copies annually at their peak \u2013 entertained and informed in equal measure, using brilliantly crafted tales of horror, science fiction, satire, and battlefield conflict to critique and subvert America’s dark impulses toward violence, racism, inequity, environmental destruction, and war.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forcibly shuttered by the Comics Code Authority \u2013 a pro-censorship group specifically tasked with eradicating EC’s illuminating influence from the American comic book industry \u2013 in 1956, EC’s unique brand of subversive storytelling lived on through the continued success of MAD Magazine, which would fuel American counterculture through the death of Publisher William M. Gaines in 1992. EC’s titles and stories have been adapted in a number of media \u2013 including HBO’s long-running TALES FROM THE CRYPT franchise of television series and feature films.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year EC announced a new partnership with publisher Oni Press to produce the first all-new EC Comics titles in nearly 70 years.\u00a0EC continues to publish new titles, expanding their range of genre as well as their definition of fright.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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EC COMICS’ CATACOMB OF TORMENT #3 is out today and features “Intrusive Thoughts\u201d by Joanne Starer (Fire and Ice) and Christopher Mitten (Detective Comics) as well as writers Ryan Haddock (The Brothers Flick), J. Holtham (Hulu\u2019s A Handmaid\u2019s Tale), and Joanne Starer (Fire & Ice). With artists artists Valeria Burzo (EC\u2019s Epitaphs from the Abyss), Sami Kivel\u00e4 (Abbott), and Christopher Mitten (Hellboy & The B.P.R.D.)!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/plugoarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/catacomb-of-Torment3_CVR.jpg?fit=1200%2C1845&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3egHU-2Fs","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7013,"url":"https:\/\/plugoarts.com\/blog\/tiger-tales\/","url_meta":{"origin":10258,"position":0},"title":"Tiger Tales","author":"PLUGO","date":"November 9, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Having leaped from the pages of Kung Fu Tai Chi magazine and A TIGER\u2019s TALE the graphic novel, new digital adventures are just two days away!","rel":"","context":"In "comics"","block_context":{"text":"comics","link":"https:\/\/plugoarts.com\/blog\/category\/comics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/plugoarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/30Day_00.jpg?fit=1000%2C1000&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/plugoarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/30Day_00.jpg?fit=1000%2C1000&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/plugoarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/30Day_00.jpg?fit=1000%2C1000&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/plugoarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/30Day_00.jpg?fit=1000%2C1000&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":7749,"url":"https:\/\/plugoarts.com\/blog\/tcfs-sunday-live\/","url_meta":{"origin":10258,"position":1},"title":"TCFS SUNDAY LIVE!","author":"PLUGO","date":"January 26, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Celebrations for the Lunar New Year of the Rabbit continue on Sunday 1\/29 on THE COMICS FU SHOW! 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