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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.


I assume you haven't read much of the writing. Some of it is certainly formulaic, as in the horror books, but it is still better than other publishers in the same genre. And some of the writing transcends the medium and has become classic. Especially, the war books, and the most socially relevant material.

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I think Everett's Sub-Mariner strip was better than anything DC was producing at the time (in the super-hero genre).


Taste is subjective, but obviously the buying public didn't agree, and a guy who has read a lot of DC comics from the early 1950s I have to say IMHO you are absolutely crazy. Some of those early 50s DC books are the most entertaining comics ever produced. Not realistic late Silver Age style angst filled comics of cosmic significance, but just fun entertaining comics that I find, frankly, better than a lot of the earliest Marvel stuff. And I like Everett's Submariner and have owned some Atlas Timely revival books. But as Ghastly just said, if I was buying then (or now) I'd buy DC.