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Panic

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Panic was part of the EC Comics line during the mid-1950s. The bi-monthly humor comic was published by Bill Gaines as a companion to Harvey Kurtzman 's Mad , which was being heavily imitated by other comic publishers. Panic was edited by Al Feldstein (who became the editor of Mad a few years later). Beginning with its first issue (February–March 1954), Panic had a 12-issue run over two years. Feldstein was the primary cover artist, with stories illustrated by Jack Davis , Will Elder , Jack Kamen , Joe Orlando , Basil Wolverton and Wally Wood . Some story ideas were by Nick Meglin , later the co-editor of Mad . Scripts were by Feldstein, Elder and Jack Mendelsohn , later a co-screenwriter of Yellow Submarine (1968) and an Emmy-nominated TV comedy writer. EC dubbed Panic the "only authorized imitation" of Mad , but Mad' s creator didn't enjoy the joke. Almost thirty years later, Harvey Kurtzman told an interviewer, " Panic was another sore point. Gaines, by some convoluted reasoning, decided to double the profit of Mad by doing a Feldstein version of Mad and he just plundered all of my techniques and artists. For this there was a real conflict of

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