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I would argue the point


..No, really? I would not have expected that of you, droid... :wall

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that ALL of the writing being done for EC at the time was compelling and well writen. Certainly, some of it was, but reading them back-to-back ala the Archives, they are just as repetative and formulaic as their contemporaries.


I will fall back on my usual canard: pick any random story from the Atlas hero Revival, and pick any random story from an EC New Trend comic circa 1954, and compare them side-by-side. Now do it again. Now do it AGAIN. You would likely have to do this ten to twenty times before you finally find one that gives Atlas the nod.

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It's also much easier to write a 7 or 8 page story about nobody than it is about somebody. A continuing character has to have time to develop and to build a retinue of secondary characters. Writing about a different husband killing his wife every month doesn't require continuity or a back story. Plus you can kill off the star of the story in each story!


True. So, compare the stories in Astonishing which do NOT feature Marvel Boy with the EC stories. Find me ONE that compares favorably with any random EC story of the period. If it's that easy to do, why wasn't everyone doing it?