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Weird Science #12

EC · Series began 1950 · May-June 1950

Dates

Cover date
May-June 1950
On sale
February 7, 1950
Pages
36

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Al Feldstein, Johnny Craig, Harvey Kurtzman, Harry Harrison, Jack Kameninks: Al Feldstein, Johnny Craig, Harvey Kurtzman, Wally Wood, Jack Kamenletters: Jim Wrotenscript: Henry Hasse, Bill Gaines, Al Feldstein, Gardner Fox

Stories

  • Lost in the Microcosm · A Fanta-Science SuspenStory! · 8 pages

    Karl visits Professor Dreeben and tells him of a Professor Einstadt he once worked for that perfected a shrinking solution. Accidentally, Karl subjects himself to the solution and begins shrinking, eventually reaching, momentarily, another civilization, where he shrinks from their view. He finally reaches another civilization, where Professor Dreeben exists and tells him the story....before he shrinks out of view again!

  • Dream of Doom · A Psycho-Science SuspenStory! · 7 pages

    Arthur Bristol is a man who is constantly dreaming... a man who never really knows when he is actually awake.

  • Murder in the 21st Century! · An Eerie-Science SuspenStory! · 1 pages

    A man tries to kill the man he thinks is cheating with his wife. It turns out it was a robot she had planned to surprise him with as a gift.

  • Experiment... in Death · 6 pages

    Two scientists experiment with reviving the dead after the subject has been deceased for 15 minutes. They test their experiments on a dog not realizing that after reviving from death, the subject has complete brain damage.

  • By the Dark of the Moon · 1 pages

    A man kills his coworker and has his girlfriend back him up as an alibi. He tells the police that he was out for a moonlit stroll with her the night the murder happened. His story is debunked when the police tell him that a total lunar eclipse occurred that night making his moonlit stroll story a lie.

  • "Things" from Outer Space! · A Weird-Science SuspenStory! · 7 pages

    A scientist and his assistant discover metal in the desert and deduce it's from a spacecraft from another galaxy. They encounter one of the aliens who looks just like a human save for a third eye hidden on its forehead. The alien reveals that his kind have infiltrated society and plan on taking over the planet.

Reprinted in

E.C. Classic Reprint (1973), Weird Science (1980), Weird Science (1992), EC Archives: Weird Science (2006), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (2012), EC Archives: Weird Science (2022), Weird Science Annual (1994)

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