Piracy (comics)

Comic book

Piracy

Cover illustration by Bernard Krigstein

Publication information
Publisher| EC Comics
Schedule| Bi-monthly
Format| Anthology
Publication date| October/November 1954 - October/November 1955
No. of issues| 7
Creative team
Artist(s)| Wally Wood
Reed Crandall
Bernard Krigstein
George Evans

Piracy is an EC Comics title published in the mid 1950s. The bi-monthly comic book, published by Bill Gaines and edited by Al Feldstein, began with an issue cover-dated October–November 1954. It ran for seven issues, ending with the October–November 1955 issue.

Front covers were by Wally Wood, Reed Crandall, Bernard Krigstein and George Evans. The stories of adventure on the high seas were illustrated by Wood, Crandall, Krigstein, Jack Davis, Al Williamson, Graham Ingels and Angelo Torres.

Piracy was reprinted (in black and white) as part of publisher Russ Cochran's The Complete EC Library. Between March and September 1998, Cochran (in association with Gemstone Publishing) reprinted all seven individual issues. This complete run was later rebound, with covers included, in a pair of softcover EC Annuals. Dark Horse reprinted Piracy as part of the EC Archives series in 2019.

## Issue guide

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# | Date | Cover Artist | Story | Story Artist

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1 | October/November 1954 | Wally Wood | The Privateer | Reed Crandall
The Mutineers | Wally Wood
Harpooned | Al Williamson & Angelo Torres
Shanghaied | Jack Davis
2 | December/January 1955 | Reed Crandall | Sea Food | Reed Crandall
Kismet | Jack Davis
The Shell Game | Al Williamson & Angelo Torres
A Fitting End | Wally Wood
3 | February/March 1955 | Reed Crandall | Blackbeard | Reed Crandall
U-Boat | Bernard Krigstein
Mouse Trap | George Evans
Slave Ship | Graham Ingels
4 | April/May 1955 | Reed Crandall | Pirate Master | Reed Crandall
By the Book | George Evans
The Sheba | Graham Ingels
Inheritance | Bernard Krigstein
5 | June/July 1955 | Bernard Krigstein | Jean Lafitte | Reed Crandall
Rag Doll | Graham Ingels
Salvage | Bernard Krigstein
The Keg | George Evans
6 | August/September 1955 | Bernard Krigstein | Fit for a King | Reed Crandall
The Skipper | George Evans
Fur Crazy | Graham Ingels
Solitary | Jack Davis
7 | October/November 1955 | George Evans | Partners | Reed Crandall
Up the River | Bernard Krigstein
John's Reward | Graham Ingels
Temptation | George Evans

## See also

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* List of Entertaining Comics publications

## External links

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* Comics book DB page

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Publications|

| Pre-Trend
(1944–1950)|

* Blackstone the Magician
* Gunfighter
* Land of the Lost
* Moon Girl

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New-Trend
(1950–1955)|

* Tales from the Crypt
* The Haunt of Fear
* The Vault of Horror
* Weird Fantasy
* Weird Science
* Crime SuspenStories
* Shock SuspenStories
* Two-Fisted Tales
* Frontline Combat
* Mad
* Panic
* Piracy
* Weird Science-Fantasy
* Three Dimensional E.C. Classics

New Direction
(1955)|

* Impact
* Valor
* Extra!
* Aces High
* Psychoanalysis
* M.D.
* Incredible Science Fiction

Picto-Fiction
(1956)|

* Confessions Illustrated
* Crime Illustrated
* Shock Illustrated
* Terror Illustrated

Oni Press
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* Epitaphs From the Abyss
* Cruel Universe
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* Cruel Universe II

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Writers|

* Robert Bernstein
* Otto Binder
* Ray Bradbury
* Johnny Craig
* Colin Dawkins
* Jerry DeFuccio
* Harlan Ellison
* Al Feldstein
* Gardner Fox
* Daniel Keyes
* Harvey Kurtzman (Harvey Kurtzman's editorship of Mad)
* Jack Mendelsohn
* Jack Oleck
* John Putnam
* John Severin
* Carl Wessler

Artists|

* Dave Berg
* Sid Check
* Gene Colan
* Johnny Craig
* Reed Crandall
* Jack Davis
* Will Elder
* Ric Estrada
* George Evans
* Al Feldstein
* Frank Frazetta
* Harry Harrison
* Russ Heath
* Graham Ingels
* Jack Kamen
* Roy Krenkel
* Bernard Krigstein
* Joe Kubert
* Harvey Kurtzman
* Howard Larsen
* Sheldon Moldoff
* Ben Oda
* Joe Orlando
* Fred Peters
* George Roussos
* John Severin
* Marie Severin
* Alex Toth
* Angelo Torres
* Ed Wheelan
* Al Williamson
* Basil Wolverton
* Tatjana Wood
* Wally Wood

See also|

* Russ Cochran
* Comics Code Authority
* EC Archives
* The EC Artists' Library
* Grant Geissman
* David Hajdu
* Maria Reidelbach
* Bhob Stewart
* Lyle Stuart
* Fred von Bernewitz

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