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====EC Comics: Race, Shock, and Social Protest====

Finally, Qiana Whitted’s <i>EC Comics: Race, Shock, and Social Protest</i> concludes the Comics Culture series for the time being. Witted, a professor of English and African American studies at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC, previously contributed to Rutgers’ University Press’ essay collection, The Blacker the Ink. In EC Comics, she argues, “The narrative, aesthetic, and marketing strategies of ‘the EC way’ constitute one of the most effective means through which questions of social justice were explored in American comic-book culture after World War II.” <ref> Qiana Whitted, EC Comics: Race, Shock, and Social Protest (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2019), x. </ref> Whitted’s work builds upon that of Amy Kiste Nyberg, Bradford W. Wright, David Hajdu, Carol Tilley, and others who examined EC comics, the end of the medium’s Golden Age, and the rise of the Comics Code Authority.<ref> Whitted, EC Comics, 6. </ref> Unlike those works, however, Whitted “takes a different approach by analyzing the creative choices and critical significance of the message stories within the EC brand against the larger ideological contexts of the late 1940s and 1950s.”<ref> Whitted, EC Comics, 6. </ref>