William M. Gaines

Early life/Rise to Power
William M. Gaines was born March 1, 1922. In 1946 he started helping out at EC

(then Educational Comics) as a "Science Editor" And Stockroom Boy.

When his father M.C. Gaines died in 1947, William Gaines took over EC,

changing the company's name from "Educational" to "Entertaining Comics",

and adding Romance and Western titles to the line-up. William Gaines later

added Crime titles, and used the last few issues of these to jump-start

the Horror comic concept.