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And to the point that others are making, excusing the material for being lame because "they were restricted to 7 and 8 page stories". Might I remind you all that EC (being done contemporaneously with the Atlas revival) was also restricted to 7 and 8 page stories, and yet those stories were compelling and well-written.


I find the EC writing to be just as mundane as the Atlas efforts. The stories are simple formulas as virtually required by the restrictive page lengths of them.

The art, however, was consistently at a high level whereas Atlas's MUCH greater output did not have the same standards overall. Some Atlas artists were on the level of the EC ones, but their work was lost in the sea of average art published every month by the company. After some rough beginnings, every EC had fine artwork. The plots, however, were trite; you knew starting in that the guy picking on the blind people in his charge was going to get it in the end in some kind of reversal of fortune.


A. Leedom, President of the Red Raven Revival Society and the fool who turned out the lights.