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Although it continued to advertise and sell back issues of the Educational titles, Bill Gaines concentrated on adding new titles to the Entertaining Comics line. He replaced the juvenile humor books with titles pitched to an older audience and strongly influenced by his own love of popular culture.
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family. Maxwell Charles Gaines was described as a "hard-nosed, pain-wracked, loud aggressive man". At age four, Gaines had leaned out too far from a second story window and fell to the ground, catching his leg on a picket fence. The leg would give him pain and discomfort for the rest of his life,
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Gaines' relationship with Donenfeld and National waxed and waned over the years. By the early 1940s, the All-American titles were branded separately and no longer featured National-owned characters. In 1944, Donenfeld bought out Gaines and merged National and All-American into a single company.
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Gaines had been a teacher, an elementary school principal, a munitions factory worker, and a haberdasher. In 1933 he had begun a new job as a salesperson at
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In 1985, Max Gaines was posthumously named as one of the honorees by DC Comics in the company's 50th anniversary publication
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Gaines used the proceeds from the sale of All-American to establish another comics line, Educational Comics.
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aggravating his disposition. As an adult he developed a vicious temper, and according to his son,
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whereas Dell financed Gaines of its three comic book titles, until Dell became associated with
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In 1933, Gaines devised the first four-color, saddle-stitched newsprint pamphlet (
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Department Stores, and others, with print runs of from 100,000 to 250,000.
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After Gaines' death in 1947, Educational Comics was taken over by his son
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These spanned several genres as he made a transition from romance (
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began publishing comics with original material under the name "
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Maxwell Gaines

William Moulton Marston
H. G. Peter
Sheldon Mayer
New York City
Lake Placid, New York
comic book
Funnies on Parade
American comic book
All-American Publications
Green Lantern
Wonder Woman
Hawkman
Educational Comics
Bill Gaines
EC Comics
Jewish
William M. Gaines
Eastern Color Printing
Harry L. Wildenberg
Procter & Gamble
Funnies on Parade
McNaught Syndicate
McClure Syndicate
Al Smith
Mutt and Jeff
Ham Fisher
Joe Palooka
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