Dates
- Cover date
- May-June 1951
- On sale
- February 2, 1951
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- It Was a Monster from the Fourth Dimension · 8 pages
A dairy farmer is terrorized by a pulsating blob floating in the air. His scientist brother determines it's a creature from the fourth dimension and uses a machine to enter the dimension to destroy the creature at the cost of his own life.
- Something Missing! · 7 pages
A scientist creates a brilliant machine called the "Physio-Chemical Decomposer and Re-Aligner". It allows him to dissolve a living creature and then reform them. When his beautiful assistant is dissolved and reformed into a statue, the statue is destroyed by the scientist's jealous wife. The scientist attempts to reform her using the broken pieces of the statue but during the process forgot a piece causing her to reform in a ghastly way.
- Miracle! · 1 pages
An old miner finds that he can create liquid uranium by chewing tobacco.
- ... Gregory Had a Model-T! · 6 pages
Gregory maintained his residence in a boarding house and the light of his life was his Model-T.....a car that he literally loved. The years passed and Gregory grew much older, yet his feelings for the car never dimmed. One day, he was found unconscious behind the wheel and was taken home where Gregory's sister took charge of her brother's affairs. She sold all of Gregory's possessions to help pay the hospital bills, and the car was sold to his brother-in-law, Sheldon. Oddly enough, the car chased Sheldon everywhere he went, then, after Gregory died, it drove off Suicide Bluff!
- The Aliens! · 7 pages
Unknowingly, spaceship crews from the 2nd and 4th planets in the solar system meet by chance while exploring the 3rd planet, and a glitch in language makes each group retaliate. When the crews flee back to their home planets, each decides that the people of the 3rd planet pose a major threat to their own peace and security, and each decides to eliminate that planet before that can happen.
Reprinted in
Weird Science (1980), Vault of Horror (1991), Weird Science (1992), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (2012), EC Archives: Weird Science (2022)