Dates
- Cover date
- July-August 1951
- On sale
- April 13, 1951
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Seeds of Jupiter! · 8 pages
A meteor from Venus crashes onto an aircraft carrier spilling out seeds. When one of the seeds gets wet, it hatches out an octopus-like creature that grows bigger when it's exposed to water. Eventually the creature grows so big it attacks New York City.
- The Escape · 7 pages
A man onboard a doomed spacecraft kills his companions so he can use the equipment they were using to escape to Earth. Once he gets to Earth, he's shot and killed by a farmer who mistook him for an alien.
- Invasion! · 1 pages
The military battles an invasion of flying saucers. After examining the wreckage of one of the downed craft, it's discovered that they were props used in a publicity campaign to promote MUMBO-JUMBOS biscuits.
- Beyond Repair · 6 pages
A handsome pilot falls in love with and steals away the beautiful girlfriend of his scientist roommate only to find out she was a robot he had built.
- The Probers · 7 pages
Captain Scott is leading his fourth "colony evaluation" into space as the problem of the exploding population of the Earth (due to genetically engineered increased life spans) is getting quite bad. They are brought down to the surface of a planet by some unknown force, and after some exploring, they return to find no ship and vanished guards. A search results in more crew members disappearing until the last two men are captured by alien beings and find they are soon to be vivisected like guinea pigs!
Reprinted in
Weird Science (1980), Weird Science (1992), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (2012), EC Archives: Weird Science (2022)