 Gaines puckishly responded by issuing a press release announcing that as a "retaliatory measure," EC was pulling all copies of its "Picture Stories from the Bible" comic book out of Massachusetts.It took the newspapers a few days to realize that the discontinued comic hadn't been on sale in Massachusetts, or anywhere else, in five years.More legal hassles came EC's way because of another story from the first issue, a gory parody of Mickey Spillane's "My Gun is the Jury" that ended with one of Spillane's bombshell women revealed as a transvestite.