Piracy is an EC Comics

EC Comics

Entertaining Comics, more commonly known as EC Comics, was an American publisher of comic books specializing in horror fiction, crime fiction, satire, military fiction and science fiction from the 1940s through the mid-1950s, notably the Tales from the Crypt series...

 title published in the early 1950s. The bi-monthly comic book

Comic book

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, published by Bill Gaines

William Gaines

William Maxwell Gaines , better known as Bill Gaines, was an American publisher and co-editor of EC Comics. Following a shift in EC's direction in 1950, Gaines presided over what became an artistically influential and historically important line of mature-audience comics...

 and edited by Al Feldstein

Al Feldstein

Albert B. Feldstein is an American writer, editor, and artist, best known for his work at EC Comics and, from 1956 to 1985, as the editor of the satirical magazine Mad. Since retiring from Mad, Feldstein has concentrated on American paintings of Western wildlife...

, 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

Wally Wood

Wallace Allan Wood was an American comic book writer, artist and independent publisher, best known for his work in EC Comics and Mad. He was one of Mads founding cartoonists in 1952. Although much of his early professional artwork is signed Wallace Wood, he became known as Wally Wood, a name he...

, Reed Crandall

Reed Crandall

Reed Crandall was an American illustrator and penciller of comic books and magazines. He was best known for the Quality Comics character Blackhawk and for stories in the critically acclaimed EC Comics of the 1950s.Crandall was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2009.-Early...

, Bernard Krigstein

Bernard Krigstein

Bernard Krigstein , was an American illustrator and gallery artist who received acclaim for his innovative and influential approach to comic book art, notably in EC Comics. He was known as Bernie Krigstein, and his artwork usually displayed the signature B...

 and George Evans. The stories of adventure on the high seas were illustrated by Wood, Crandall, Krigstein, Jack Davis

Jack Davis (cartoonist)

Jack Davis is an American cartoonist and illustrator, known for his advertising art, magazine covers, film posters, record album art and numerous comic book stories...

, Al Williamson

Al Williamson

Alfonso "Al" Williamson was an American cartoonist, comic book artist and illustrator specializing in adventure, Western and science-fiction/fantasy...

, Graham Ingels

Graham Ingels

Graham Ingels was a comic book and magazine illustrator best known for his work in EC Comics during the 1950s, notably on The Haunt of Fear and Tales from the Crypt, horror titles written and edited by Al Feldstein, and The Vault of Horror, written and edited by Feldstein and Johnny Craig...

 and Angelo Torres

Angelo Torres

Angelo Torres is an American cartoonist and caricaturist whose work has appeared in many comic books, as well as a long-running regular slot in Mad magazine, typically film or television parodies.-Biography:...

.

Piracy was reprinted (in black and white) as part of publisher Russ Cochran

Russ Cochran (publisher)

Russ Cochran is a publisher of EC Comics reprints, Disney comics and books on Hopalong Cassidy, Chet Atkins, Les Paul and vacuum tubes. He has been a publisher for over 30 years, after quitting his job as a physics professor....

's The Complete EC Library. Between March and September 1998, Cochran (in association with Gemstone Publishing

Gemstone Publishing

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) reprinted all seven individual issues. This complete run was later rebound, with covers included, in a pair of softcover EC Annuals.

Issue guide

#	Date	Cover Artist	Story	Story Artist
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