EC Comics

Nerd of Mouth

The Last Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Leisure, Video Games

4.7 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2019

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

We explore the history of EC Comics: their rise in the 40s & 50s with titles such as "Tales From the Crypt", their battle with the Comics Code Authority and their enduring legacy. Quip starts at just $25 and if you go to http://getquip.com/wizard right now, you can get your first refill pack for FREE. This episode was brought to you by one of our Patrons! Support us on Patreon and get bonus weekly episodes, discord chats and more! Honey-Bee, Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

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0:00.0	Wraiser
0:02.0	Ha ha ha ha ha ha.
0:04.0	Your creepy, cryptkeeping wizard,
0:21.8	Holden McNeely.
0:23.8	Ah, ha, ha, yeh.
0:25.9	I'm the vaultkeeper, bruiser, Jake.
0:32.9	What is that for a vaultkeeper?
0:35.0	Nobody remembers the vaultkeeper.
0:36.9	It's all crypt creeper this. Crip creeper that. Bordello of blood fucking. The vault keeper was there the whole time. And don't even get me started on the old witch. The old witch was valid. Where's the old witch love? But no, it's fucking cool 90s cryptkeeper.
0:54.2	I tried to have...
0:54.8	Lording over the conversation.
0:56.4	I tried to have some old witch love and I woke up naked in a hotel room in Tijuana.
1:00.7	So that's enough old witch love for me.
1:04.8	By the way, this topic has warped my young impressionable mind.
1:09.4	Now I hang out with greaser gangs and get into knife fights and smoke unfiltered cigarettes.
1:16.0	That's right.
1:16.8	Not nice filtered cigarettes that will keep me alive forever.
1:21.0	Gross, bad boy, unfiltered cigarettes.
1:23.9	Really quick, this is a Patreon-sponsored episode from Zach Berger. I don't have a promotion
1:28.6	here, so I hope I'm not fucking that up. Zach, thank you so much for this episode, because honestly,
1:33.8	I was just saying to Jake, before we started, I'm like, this is like the story of comic books,
1:38.0	is the story of EC comics in so many bizarre ways, at least up to the 1960s, essentially.
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