Dates
- Cover date
- July-August 1951
- On sale
- May 14, 1951
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Origin of the Species! · 8 pages
Two archeologist brothers are intent on discovering the origin of humans. Stanley believes the origin of man is on Earth, while Ernest believes space is the answer. Ernest goes on an expedition into space but the rocket goes through a time warp and the crew end up on the Earth's moon millions of years in the past. The moon is inhabited by ape-like creatures who Ernest believes are the ancestors of man and brings two of them back to Earth. The ship fails to go back through the time warp and crashes on prehistoric Earth, where the creatures escape and will breed eventually creating humans.
- It Didn't Matter · 7 pages
While working with a rich scientist who secretly invented a matter transporting machine, Arnold (his assistant) falls in love with his beautiful wife. The wife only married him for his money and they plan on killing him to be together. The wife decides to shoot him, then Arnold will teleport her through the machine miles away as an alibi. On the night of the murder, when he teleported her through the machine, electrical interference from a thunderstorm causes her to be horribly distorted when she materializes.
- Speed! · 1 pages
The scientific community invests $10 billion building a Cobalt-Hydrogen engine that will allow ships to travel faster than light. After a rocket is tested, the scientists can't tell if it flew around the Earth or just moved a few yards.
- The Slave Ship · 6 pages
In 1839, a group of slave runners capture slaves from Africa and plan to take them to America. When they encounter a coast guard ship, they cruelly dump the slaves overboard into the ocean still chained to each other to avoid being caught with their illegal cargo. Shortly thereafter, alien creatures capture the slave runners and take them into space. When they encounter a cosmic patrol ship, they cruelly dump the men overboard into the vacuum of space still chained to each other to avoid being caught with their illegal cargo.
- The Enemies of the Colony · 7 pages
Members of the G.C.A. land on a planet after seven years of travel, intent on making it their new home. There they discover that the planet is inhabited by a strange race called the Mokos and they have been bred by the colonists there. Also present are the Hydro-Files, considered vicious and dangerous. But the inhabitants soon learn how wrong they can be.
Reprinted in
Weird Fantasy (1980), The Vault of Horror (1990), Weird Fantasy (1992), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (2012), The EC Archives: Weird Fantasy (2014), EC Archives: Weird Fantasy (2023), Flashback (1971)