Dates
- Cover date
- January-February 1953
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Plucked! · 8 pages
Every few centuries, aliens come to Earth to kidnap humans to take back to their homeworld for a feast. They cause mass hypnosis when this occurs so no one will remember the victims had even existed.
- The Island Monster · 7 pages
A Broadway promoter hears tales of an island monster, so he charters a ship and takes his expedition to that island, discoveres the creature, captures it and returns it to New York to be put on display at Madison Square Garden. Unknown to any of them, they too late discover the creature actually to be a peace-loving alien which came to Earth bringing a message of friendship from his home planet.
- Cargo of the Hesperus · 1 pages
Carver De Waterfront is tasked to uncover the wreck of the Hesperus to find its legendary treasure. The treasure turns out to be Aluminum pressure cookers.
- Off Day! · 6 pages
Professor Dingle deviates from his prepared presentation to discuss the breakdown on the law of averages.
- The Long Years! · 7 pages
Earthlings land on a barren abandoned war-torn Mars and find an aging scientist living there with his young family. When the old man dies of a heart attack, they find a nearby cemetery and find the graves of his family. They realized he had built android versions of his deceased family to keep him company and from going insane with loneliness.
Reprinted in
Weird Science (1980), Weird Science (1994), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (2012), EC Classics (1985), Tales of the Incredible (1965), Tomorrow Midnight (1966), Home to Stay! The Complete EC Ray Bradbury Stories (2022), EC Archives: Weird Science (2022)