![]() Gaines took over Educational Comics (EC), the current family business, while finishing his studies, graduating from NYU in 1948. Shortly thereafter his father was killed in a boating accident. While serving as the base photographer at De Ridder Army Air Corps Base in Louisiana, he married Hazel Grieb in 1944 they had no children.Īfter his discharge in 1945 as a private first class, Gaines enrolled at New York University (NYU) and majored in education. ![]() After graduating from James Madison High School, he majored in chemistry at Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn, New York, from 1941 to 1942, but dropped out and joined the Army Air Corps during World War II. He was an unruly and unorthodox child he became an atheist at the age of twelve and took up magic as a hobby. ![]() ![]() Gaines, who published the first comic books in the 1930s, and Jessie Postlethwaite, an elementary school teacher. 3 June 1992 in New York City), founding publisher of Mad magazine and creator and publisher of EC Comics, including Weird Science and Tales from the Crypt. ![]()
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