Dates
- Cover date
- September-October 1953
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- My Home... · 8 pages
A crew from Earth land on a planetoid inhabited by a invisible gas like being that is trapped there. When the being finds out they plan on harvesting the planetoid for its resources, its possesses one of the crew and inadvertently ends up killing the entire crew. Now the being is trapped in the ship floating aimlessly through space.
- Saved · 7 pages
A G.B.I. man disguises himself as a space ship crew member in order to discover the truth behind the deaths of many crew members that served with Mr. Jargot aboard the ship "Mercury". He discovers the horrifying truth behind those disappearances, Jargot has been harvesting the blood of the crewmen to power the ships revolutionary engines. When he comes for the G.B.I agent, the agent is saved by an intended victim who kills Jargot. The victim turns out to be a vampire and is now saving the agent to use as a food source for the long trip back to Earth.
- Millennium · 1 pages
A professor invents a revolutionary hair restorer. When his wife accidentally uses it outside thinking that it was bug spray, it causes a thick coat of luxurious hair to grow on the house!
- Planely Possible · 6 pages
After a serious car accident, Walter's wife slips into a coma and passes away. But when a hospital lab tech approches Walter, telling him that he can transport the grieved man into one of several different planes of existence, one of which has the couple both still alive. Walter agrees.....but soon wishes he hadn't.
- The Million Year Picnic · 7 pages
A father and his family who had fled Earth to Mars during a global war, take their kids on a trip in their boat past dead cities whose Martian population had been wiped out. Finally arriving at one of the cities, the family stops and decides to make their new home there, with Dad promising the kids that they would soon see Martians. After hearing that Earth has been destroyed, the father tells his kids they will live in one of the ruined Martian cities and will meet another Earth family who have girls instead of boys. The father then explains to the kids that they are now the Martians.
Reprinted in
Weird Fantasy (1980), Weird Fantasy (1994), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (2012), Choke Gasp! The Best of 75 Years of EC Comics (2019), EC Horror Library of the 1950's (1970), Home to Stay! The Complete EC Ray Bradbury Stories (2022)