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William Maxwell " Bill " Gaines ( / ɡeɪnz /; 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 of mature-audience comics. He published the satirical magazine Mad for over ...
Feb 26, 2024 · 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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Website. madmagazine .com. ISSN. 0024-9319. OCLC. 265037357. Mad (stylized as MAD) is an American humor magazine first published in 1952. It was founded by editor Harvey Kurtzman and publisher William Gaines, [2] launched as a comic book series before it became a magazine.
- 140,000 (as of 2017)
- October/November, 1952; 71 years ago (original magazine), June 2018; 5 years ago (reboot)
- April 2018; 5 years ago (original magazine)
- Warner Bros. Discovery
Jul 20, 2021 · William Gaines had stopped taking ads in 1957. Gaines, who passed away in 1992 shortly before Kurtzman, felt that Mad couldn’t parody consumerism if they were profiting from advertising.
Jun 4, 1992 · motto, died yesterday at his home in Manhattan. He was 70 years old. He died in his sleep, editors at Mad said. The first issue of the magazine hit the newsstands in 1952, with sharp-eyed sendups ...
Jun 4, 1992 · June 4, 1992 12 AM PT. TIMES STAFF WRITER. 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 ...
