Dates
- Cover date
- September-October 1953
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- EC Confidential! · 8 pages
The editor of Fables Publishing Company (the publisher of Weird Science) is concerned that some of the Weird Science stories put together by Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein are coming true. When a group of hostile aliens attack the building, it's revealed that the two (along with the entire staff) are really aliens from Venus who had survived the Martian massacre of their home world and had come to Earth.
- Punishment Without Crime · 7 pages
Deeply hurt that his wife was in love with another man, George decides to do something that was considered illegal: he paid $10,000 to re-enact his life with a stringless marionette version of Katherine, then murder her as an act of revenge. However murdering a marionette is akin to murdering a real human and he is sentenced to death even though his real wife is very much alive.
- Super-Rocket! · 1 pages
The Air Force is stunned to see rockets being launched into outer space from a unknown location. The Air Force has long tried to fire rockets into space but have consistently failed. When they are able to track down the source, they find out a small child has been building and launching the rockets. When asked how he was able to accomplish this, the child responded that he learned it by watching the "Colonel Futura" TV show and that was how he learned to build and launch Flying Saucers too!
- Two's Company... · 6 pages
Years before, Forbes had crashed onto an unknown planet infested with strange alien dinosaurs and awaited rescue. Several years after the crash, he ran into a beautiful mute girl named Velda and they developed a relationship. One day, a rescue crew appeared and when they tell Forbes that she doesn't really exist, he goes crazy and kills the rescue team.......and Velda magically re-appears!
- The Ugly One · 7 pages
A family is disgusted by their horrible alien looking newborn baby. The baby grows up but is constantly being shunned by everyone due its horrible appearance. As an adult the depressed being wants to commit suicide, but suddenly sees a rocket ship arrive. It's revealed the being originated from that planet and is asked if it wants to return home to be with its own people where it is considered beautiful. The being agrees. The twist is that all this time the being was a beautiful human woman and it was the denizens of the Earth-like planet she grew up on that were the ugly alien creatures.
Reprinted in
Weird Science (1980), Weird Science (1994), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (2012), Tomorrow Midnight (1966), Weird Science Annual (1994), Home to Stay! The Complete EC Ray Bradbury Stories (2022), EC Archives: Weird Science (2022)