William Maxwell Gaines Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Willim Gaines became one of the most important figures in comic book and humor history by accident. Gaines' father, M.C. (Max) Gaines, was the publisher of Educational Comics (EC). When the elder Gaines died in 1947 as a result of freak boating accident, the younger Gaines found himself publisher. At the time, EC put out a wide variety of titles. ...
My staff creates the magazine, all I provide is the atmosphere.
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You mustn't walk so fast. We are going one degree uphill.
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Gaines paid generously for cartoons and articles, but he always bought All Rights to the material. This meant that once he paid for it, the stuff was his forever.
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Gaines was a close friend of independent publisher Lyle Kenyon Engels.
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A right-wing general once tried to get Mad magazine banned as "communist" and indecent literature. Gaines took the man to court, and then boasted to the reporters that if the judge addressed the man as "General", he would insist on being addressed as "Private First Class".
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While in the army he was permanently assigned to KP (Kitchen Patrol), which sparked his lifelong love of gourmet cooking.
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Once sent a vegetarian member of his staff out to buy hot dogs, because he knew for certain that the man would not eat them on the way back.
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A noted gourmet, as well as a gourmand.
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Always listed the company's attorney among Mad's staff in the magazine's roster, listing his department as "lawsuits".
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When an issue of Mad Magazine had a raised middle finger on the cover, Gaines sent a personal apology to every person who wrote to complain about it.
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Started Mad Magazine in desperation after his successful EC Horror Comics were blacklisted by the U.S. Senate.
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Testified in front of the U.S. Senate in defense of the comic book industry in the 1950s.
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Huge fan of zeppelins.
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Once filled MAD office water coolers with white wine
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Often ate at Little Charlie's Clam Bar.
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Collected miniatures of the Statue of Liberty, and related items.
$8 Million
