EC published distinct lines of titles under its Entertaining Comics umbrella. Most notorious were its horror books, "Tales from the Crypt", "The Vault of Horror", and "The Haunt of Fear". These titles reveled in a gruesome "joie de vivre", with grimly ironic fates meted out to many of the stories' protagonists. The company's war comics, "Frontline Combat" and "Two-Fisted Tales", often featured weary-eyed, unheroic stories out of step with the jingoistic times. "Shock SuspenStories" tackled weighty political and social issues such as racism, sex, drug use, and the American way of life. EC always claimed to be "proudest of our science fiction titles", with "Weird Science" and "Weird Fantasy" publishing stories unlike the space opera found in such titles as Fiction House's "Planet Comics". "Crime SuspenStories" had many parallels with "film noir". As noted by Max Allan Collins in his story annotations for Russ Cochran's 1983 hardcover reprint of "Crime SuspenStories", Johnny Craig had developed a ""film noir"-ish bag of effects" in his visuals, while characters and themes found in the crime stories often showed the strong influence of writers associated with "film noir", notably James M. Cain. Craig excelled in drawing stories of domestic scheming and conflict, leading David Hajdu to observe: