Dates
- Cover date
- March-April 1952
- On sale
- January 11, 1952
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Joe Orlando · The EC "Artist of the Issue" · 1 pages
- Project... Survival! · 8 pages
With a civil war raging on Earth, the President of the Amalgamated Rocket Corporation believes, that with the help of science, man can reach the Moon and use it as a base. What scares the scientists is that he also intends to use the highly powerful Electron Bomb on the rebels, a move that could end all life on Earth.
- A Lesson in Anatomy!! · 7 pages
Chased away from his father's lab while he dissects a body, Stevey finds a stranger in the forest. Wanting to brag, Stevey tells the man all sorts of falsehoods, which he believes. But Stevey soon learns a secret about the stranger he doesn't expect to discover. He's a robot being controlled by an intelligent crab like creature that is acting as a scout for an alien invasion.
- Explosive! · 1 pages
After combining 2,000 different ingredients with peanuts to create the world's most powerful bomb, scientists test the bomb out. But something goes wrong and all they are left with is peanut butter.
- The Die Is Cast! · 6 pages
The I.S.E.A. of Earth has commissioned Commander Stone to write out a detailed report on the destruction of his spaceship on a planet they were investigating. What he tells about is almost too hard to believe. It was crushed by giant moving cubes. After leaving the planet, he noticed the giant cubes were dice being used by gigantic aliens. All this time the planet they were on was a giant craps table!
- A Man's Job! · 7 pages
In the future women have taken over all of the men's jobs and begin running society. Men become the new women of society; Staying home, raising kids and giving birth.
Reprinted in
Weird Fantasy (1980), Weird Fantasy (1994), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (2012), The EC Archives: Weird Fantasy (2014), EC Archives: Weird Fantasy (2023), Home to Stay! The Complete EC Ray Bradbury Stories (2022)