Dates
- Cover date
- January-February 1952
- On sale
- November 15, 1951
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Al Feldstein · The EC "Artist of the Issue" · 1 pages
- The Two-Century Journey! · 8 pages
A generation ship leaves earth to travel to another planet. On the way they discover that people age very slowly in space, which creates a population problem on the ship.
- Shrinking from Abuse! · 7 pages
Hugo Masterson has created a formula to shrink tissue in order to possibly cure cancer, but he accidentally injects himself and is then ingested by his wife.
- Desire! · 1 pages
While studying an atom, a scientist sees a beautiful woman inside. Smitten, he tries to split the atom to free her. He causes a chain reaction that destroys both her molecular world and his world.
- The 10th at Noon · 6 pages
Two scientists invent a time machine that can send a camera into the future and snap a picture, and, by doing so, they discover the end of the world is coming.
- The Thing in the Jar · 7 pages
Scientists discover what has been killing everything in Mr. Dorsey's pond. It's an intelligent liquid lifeform that assimilates the knowledge of the victims it dissolves. This organism plans to eventually take over humanity. The scientists destroy the pond with flaming oil, but a cleaning lady back at their lab dumps some of the specimen they were studying down the drain.
Reprinted in
Weird Fantasy (1980), Weird Science (1990), Weird Fantasy (1994), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (2012), The EC Archives: Weird Fantasy (2014), EC Archives: Weird Fantasy (2023)