This ones a bit of an odd one, even for EC.

After the Senate Hearings in the 50s, EC dropped their Crime and Horror comics and added a number of new books, dubbing them the "New Direction". A couple of war comics (Valor & Aces High), a pirate book (Piracy, which "started" the pirate trend in WATCHMEN), one centering around newspaper reporters (Extra!), a renamed sci-fi comic (with "weird" being banned by the Comic Code, they changed Weird Science Fantasy to Incredible Science Fiction), a comic dedicated to twist-endings (Impact), and a pair of realistic medical books (M.D. & Psychoanylsis).

The medical books were, of course, a pretty big departure for EC, and Psychoanylsis went M.D. one further... by utilizing a continuing narrative, something incredibly rare at EC, who had published only a handful of continued stories over the years: a series of three robot stories in Weird Science-Fantasy and some continued stories in Two-Fisted Tales (which had returned to its adventure roots after Kurtzman stopped editing it). Psychoanylsis told the story of three patients, each coming back to resolve different problems, before being declared cured.

Another oddity was, instead of utilizing different artists for each of the 8-page shorts, there was only one artist on the series: Jack Kamen. Kamen was the go-to guy for "Buster" stories, with sex-bomb women scheming against their cheating husbands or some other variation on the battle of the sexes motif.

Okay, so it wasn't very good and it went tits up after only four issues after wrapping up the problems of the first (and only) three patients. But it's certainly a Lost Bit of Comic History.

I like these lost bits of comics history...keep em coming!

I like tossing them out every so often, even though they usually don't get much of a reaction, since relatively few people here have even heard of the stuff I've posted (I think the Animated Cerebus got the biggest reaction). Sort of boring to see the same dozen or two comics always being discussed.

I think I got a couple of Eisner curiosities that might make the cut in the next couple of days. Don't want to toss too many out at the same time.

I like SC's series, too! As a "history of comics" buff I really dig this kinda thing. I have a pile of EC stuff, including Psychoanalysis (spell that three times fast!) and Jack Kamen is incredible.
Didn't Kamen's son invent (or help invent) that Segway device?
Here he is, Dean, son of Jack, B.1951:

[I also hope you don't mind if I joined in the fray? : ]

Edited for the date!

Nah, go ahead, as long as it's fairly novel or obscure. If it turns into "Lost Bits Of Comic History: Force Works", I might have to disown you

Make sure I get mah royalties when you collect them all into a Numbah One Sellah!

Dean's looking remarkably good for someone born in 1851

That Psychoanalysis comic looks great A friend of mine is a huge comics fan, and she is just completing her PhD in Psychology - I'll have to show her that cover

LBOCH: Team America

LBOCH: Steelgrip Starkey (actually, wasn't that supposed to be okay? )

LBOCH: Reagan's Raiders

..I could go on

For that, we'd use the title: "Lost Bits Of Comic Stupidity"

Funny when you mentioned Reagan's Raiders, I immediately thought of Jack Kirby's Outsiders that he published at DC years ago. They both popped up on a Worst Comics list I read back in the 90s. They actually had a copy of it in the shop I worked in and *jeez* that was a mighty bada booka.

Regarding Dean Kamen. He is in fact the son of Jack Kamen... I think he actually has a comic appearance somewhere, since I seem to recall Jack's family being written into one story.

Just think, only three degrees of seperation between the creation of the comic book and the creation of the Segway scooter.

Max Gaines -- creator of the comic book.
Bill Gaines -- son of Max, who published EC Comics
Jack Kamen -- EC Comics artist
Dean Kamen -- inventor of the Segway