How did Papercutz land the EC Comics title, Tales from the Crypt?

Jim Salicrup: Well, there's the short version and the long version. The short version is that we were able to obtain the rights from William M. Gaines, Agent, Inc by presenting a proposal which they were wonderful enough to accept.

The long version is that I've been interested in EC Comics since I first read about them in Steranko's History of Comics. At age 14, I was lucky enough to interview Al Feldstein and Bill Gaines for Kids Magazine. Obviously, it had quite an impact on me!

I loved everything about EC-- their titles, their publisher, editors, writers, and artists, their realationship with their audience, which they dubbed the "EC Fan-Addicts"-- everything! At 15, I was working at Marvel Comics (Ec Comics was long gone at that point), which I also loved, and years later, the very first comic I edited was Marvel Premiere # 50 featuring Alice Cooper. The cover was clearly a tribute to EC's horror titles, one of the first such homage ever done by Marvel.

Of course, at Marvel I got ... more.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.