Dates
- Cover date
- March-April 1951
- On sale
- December 6, 1950
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Spawn of Venus · 8 pages
Astronauts on a trip to Venus bring an innocent looking flower back to Earth only to find out that when the flower blooms it releases a monster.
- Man and Superman! · 7 pages
Niels is working on increasing the mass of the atom without changing its structure, but his brother is only interested in his body-building. Charlemagne does agree to go to Niels's lab, and while Niels steps out of the room, Charlemagne decides to expose himself to the rays of Niels's machine, which gives him tremendous strength, like that of a superman. Unfortunately, as Charlemagne expends his energy, he begins to tire and lose that strength and disappears, being burnt up in a burst of energy.
- Dilemma · 1 pages
A sick man needs fermented liquids to survive and after being treated with experimental drugs, now causes everything he touches to turn into Moonshine.
- Sinking of the Titanic! · 6 pages
After ten years work, a noted British physicist creates a time-traveling machine, intending to go back in time to prevent the sinking of the ill-fated ship, The Titanic. The reason: his late parents were aboard that vessel and saved his life by giving theirs. However, by strange quirk of fate, George causes the very disaster he went back in time to prevent, but also saved himself as a boy before he died saving him.
- Divide and Conquer · 7 pages
A scientist finds out his wife is planning to kill him, so he injects her with a solution that causes her to undergo binary fission and shrink. Eventually there are over a thousand mini versions of her which he then stamps underfoot like ants.
Reprinted in
Weird Science (1980), Weird Science (1992), EC Archives: Weird Science (2006), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (2012), EC Archives: Weird Science (2022), EC Portfolio (1971), EC Sampler - Free Comic Book Day (2008), Choke Gasp! The Best of 75 Years of EC Comics (2019)