Dates
- Cover date
- November-December 1951
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Maidens Cried · 8 pages
Valent and his crew have been hedge-hopping the galaxy, searching various planets for much-needed raw materials back on Earth, specifically uranium. After two years, the crew is ready to get back home after this mission. When they land, a group of beautiful women suddenly approach the crew along with their men who are hideous to look at. Many of the crew marry the women, but then learn too late that they are actually the planet's insect life.
- Reducing... Costs · 7 pages
A couple of arena owners are desperate because their arena is too small to compete with "The Garden." A scientist offers a solution. He can make it so people will unknowingly shrink when they enter the building thus allowing them to bring in more people for sporting events. The shrinking process backfires.
- No Variety! · 1 pages
A man who takes a pill that makes it so he doesn't require food is complaining because the sandwiches that he's secretly eating are always the same.
- Transformation Completed · 6 pages
Dr. Hinde was very possessive of his daughter, and when she became engaged to a man he didn't like, he decided to conduct his sex gene experiments on the young man without his knowledge. But when Terry finds out, she takes drastic action that ends in a most unusual wedding!
- The Planetoid! · 7 pages
A group of space explorers find a small planetoid and go to investigate. They are startled by the insect-sized beings who live there and are then attacked by flying and stinging insect-sized objects. They flee. It turns out that it was Earth and those insects were humans and the flying objects were jet fighters.
- Al Feldstein · 1 pages
Reprinted in
Weird Science (1980), Weird Science (1994), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (2012), EC Archives: Weird Science (2022)