Impact
Jack Davis cover, issue #1
Publication information
Publisher	EC Comics
Schedule	Bimonthly
Format	Anthology
Publication date	March/April 1955 ? November/December 1955
No. of issues	5
Creative team
Created by	William Gaines Al Feldstein

Impact was a short-lived comic book series published by EC Comics in 1955 as the first title in its New Direction line.

Overview [ edit ]

The bi-monthly comic, published by Bill Gaines and edited by Al Feldstein , began with an issue cover-dated March?April, 1955. ^[1] It ran for five issues, ending with the November?December, 1955 issue. The sub-title "Tales Designed to Carry an" ran above the title Impact . The book was dedicated to stories with shock endings, and was seen as a toned down, Comics Code era version of EC's earlier Shock SuspenStories . Front covers were by Jack Davis , and the stories were illustrated by Davis, George Evans , Jack Kamen , Graham Ingels , Joe Orlando , Reed Crandall and Bernard Krigstein .

There are two versions of the cover to Impact #1. One logo is yellow and the other is white.

The first issue featured the short story " Master Race ," co-plotted by Gaines & Feldstein and illustrated by Krigstein. ^[2] "Master Race" is one of the first comic book stories about The Holocaust , and has been described as the Citizen Kane of comic books. ^{[3] [4]}

Impact was reprinted as part of publisher Russ Cochran 's Complete EC Library in 1988. Between April and August 1999, Cochran (in association with Gemstone Publishing ) reprinted all five individual issues. This complete run was later rebound, with covers included, in a single softcover EC Annual . Dark Horse reprinted Impact as part of the EC Archives series in 2020. ^[5]

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