Three Dimensional E.C. Classics
Three Dimensional E.C. Classics was a quarterly comic book anthology series published by EC Comics in 1954. It began publication with its Spring 1954 issue and ceased with its March 1954 issue, producing a total of two issues. The stories it contained were classics in that they were recyclings of stories that had already appeared in earlier EC comic books. However, all new artwork was done for these books, rather than applying the 3-D process to the original illustrations from the first presentations of the stories. They were three-dimensional because they were presented in Anaglyph 3-D. Two 3-D viewers were included with each issue.
Cover to Three Dimensional Tales from the Crypt of Terror. Art by Al Feldstein.
Anaglyph 3D panel for "The Thing from the Grave" as rendered by Joe Orlando for Three Dimensional Tales from the Crypt of Terror
Anaglyph 3D is the stereoscopic 3D effect achieved by means of encoding each eye's image using filters of different colors, typically red and cyan. Anaglyph 3D images contain two differently filtered colored images, one for each eye. When viewed through the "color-coded" "anaglyph glasses", each of the two images reaches the eye it's intended for, revealing an integrated stereoscopic image. The visual cortex of the brain fuses this into the perception of a three-dimensional scene or composition.
Stereogram source image for the anaglyph above
Anachrome glasses
Anaglyph by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's HiRISE camera highlighting Martian lava terrain that looks like an elephant
Image: Hammer anaglyph (14656149338)