SUNDAY FUNNIES!! D DAY from EC's TWO-FISTED TALES Comicbook

 

Before MAD Comicbook creator and editor of MAD was the editor, Harvey Kurtzman,  of two war comicbooks for EC Publishing Company.  He wrote and researched every story.  He or his assistant researched military uniforms and incidents in each war.  Being a perfectionist,  a war story would take time.  He and his wife was having a hard time making ends meet.  He went to the publisher, Bill Gaines and asked for a raise.  He knew the editor of the EC horror and supernatural comics, Al Felstein was making much more money, and used that as an argument.   Gaines pointed out that Feldsteins generated more comics.  His war comics took up too much time (although they were historically accurate).  In order to make more money Kurtzman would have to create a comic that brought in more income and profit.

Then MAD comic was suggested.  Harvey Kurtzman said he suggested it and William Gaines said he suggested it.  Who knows?    The good thing about MAD it took hardly any research at all.

But, back to the war comics Harvey Kurtzman generated.  This one is D DAY.  It is personal favorite of mine because I had two uncles in the middle of it, June 6, 1944, my mother’s brother and my father’s brother.

Story by GOD and Harvey Kurtzman, edited b Harvey Kurtzman and illustrated by John Severin.

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