Dates
- Cover date
- March-April 1953
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Mars Is Heaven! · 8 pages
Sneaky Martians disguise themselves as the dead loved ones of astronauts in order to slay them in their sleep.
- Snap Ending! · 7 pages
Rocketship #269 is approaching a gigantic planet with a density 50 times that of the Earth, and decide to circle it to take a closer look. They spot and decide to land on a satellite moon of the planet.......with dire results!
- Fever · 1 pages
A writer has a feverish vision of a strange world with fluttering shapes.
- The Parallel! · 6 pages
Feeling that he had already lived the exact moment before, Calvin tells his wife that he believes that there exists a parallel world which duplicates exactly everything happening at the current time. He plots to go to this parallel world and murder his counterpart so that he alone can control his own destiny.
- Disassembled! · 7 pages
An electrical engineer finds a strange metal object in a empty flying saucer and takes it back to his station to disassemble it and find out what makes it tick. When it screams in pain, he realizes it's alive. Another alien from the saucer (a living robot) shows up and disassembles the engineer to find out what makes humans tick.
Reprinted in
Weird Science (1980), Vault of Horror (1991), Weird Science (1994), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (2012), Weird Science (1950), Tomorrow Midnight (1966), EC Portfolio (1971), Choke Gasp! The Best of 75 Years of EC Comics (2019), Home to Stay! The Complete EC Ray Bradbury Stories (2022), EC Archives: Weird Science (2022)