The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library
#9 - Judgment Day and Other Stories
(May 2014)
Fantagraphics,
2012 Series
- Price
- 29.99 USD
- Pages
- 200
- On-sale Date
- 2014-06
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Fantagraphics Books Inc.
- Brand
-
FB
- ISBN
-
978-1-60699-727-7
- Barcode
- 9781606997277 52999
- Editing
- Mike Catron (credited as J. Michael Catron) (senior editor); Gary Groth (credited) (executive editor)
Issue Notes
This is Volume 9 of The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library
Judgment Day and Other Stories
credits, title page / 3 pages
Indexer Notes
Title page; credits; indicia.
Orlando Ascendant
text article / 8 pages
- Script
- Bill Mason (credited)
- Pencils
- Joe Orlando (credited)
- Inks
- Joe Orlando (credited)
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Article about Orlando's EC comics work, including art by, and a photo of, Orlando.
[no title indexed]
illustration / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Panel illustration blown-up to fit a full page.
The Long Years!
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Ray Bradbury (original author); Al Feldstein (adaptation)
- Pencils
- Joe Orlando (signed)
- Inks
- Joe Orlando (signed)
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
-
from Weird Science (EC, 1951 series) #17 (January-February 1953) [Reprinted in black and white.]
-
Indexer Notes
An adaptation of a Ray Bradbury story included in "The Martian Chronicles."
In the Beginning...
comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
- Pencils
- Joe Orlando (signed)
- Inks
- Joe Orlando (signed)
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- from Weird Fantasy (EC, 1951 series) #17 (January-February 1953) [Reprinted in black and white.]
-
Infiltration
A Science-Fiction SuspenStory / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
- Pencils
- Joe Orlando (signed)
- Inks
- Joe Orlando (signed)
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Phil Brady (Flying Saucer Bureau employee, death); Betty Curtiss (villain, a Martian, Shaw's private secretary); Colonel Wayne Shaw (villain, a Martian, Pentagon Flying Saucer Bureau employee)
- Synopsis
- This story postulates that a small government agency responsible for ferreting out Martian infiltrators is completely infested with Martian infiltrators except for a sole human whom they gun down.
- Reprints
- from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #7 (February-March 1953) [Reprinted in black and white.]
-
Disassembled!
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
- Pencils
- Joe Orlando (signed)
- Inks
- Joe Orlando (signed)
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- from Weird Science (EC, 1951 series) #18 (March-April 1953) [Reprinted in black and white.]
-
Judgment Day!
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Tarlton
- Reprints
- from Weird Fantasy (EC, 1951 series) #18 (March-April 1953) [Reprinted in black and white.]
-
Keyed Up!
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
- Pencils
- Joe Orlando (signed)
- Inks
- Joe Orlando (signed)
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- from Weird Science (EC, 1951 series) #19 (May-June 1953) [Reprinted in black and white.]
-
Time For a Change!
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- from Weird Fantasy (EC, 1951 series) #19 (May-June 1953) [Reprinted in black and white.]
-
The Meddlers!
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
- Pencils
- Joe Orlando (signed)
- Inks
- Joe Orlando (signed)
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- Genre
- crime
- Characters
- Dr. Conrad Rivers (research chemist, death); Mr. Kearns (groery store owner, death); the widow Jones (death); Jed (death); Enos (death); Martha (death)
- Synopsis
- The folk of a small town attempt to drive away a doctor who is attempting to create life in a test tube. They smash his equipment while he suffers heart failure. His failed experiments combine in the sewer to create a blob-like living mass which devours the townsfolk.
- Reprints
- from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #9 (June-July 1953) [Reprinted in black and white.]
-
- Keywords
- Millville
The Reformers
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
- Pencils
- Joe Orlando (signed)
- Inks
- Joe Orlando (signed)
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- from Weird Science (EC, 1951 series) #20 (July-August 1953) [Reprinted in black and white.]
-
The Automaton
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- from Weird Fantasy (EC, 1951 series) #20 (July-August 1953) [Reprinted in black and white.]
-
Home Run!
A Science-Fiction SuspenStory / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
- Pencils
- Joe Orlando (signed)
- Inks
- Joe Orlando (signed)
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Doctor Muller (atomic scientist, absorbed into a Martian); Doctor Caxton (Muller's supervisor); a Martian (villain)
- Synopsis
- Astronauts are approaching Mars when one of their number admits to them that he is really a Martian who designed the rocket in order to return home after his crashed. The other astronauts think he has lost his mind and attempt to seize his gun, which discharges, killing him. They land on Mars and notice that the body has regained its true form and realize the creature was telling them the truth and that hostile Martians are now waiting outside to absorb their bodies and return to Earth as Martian infiltrators.
- Reprints
- from Shock SuspenStories (EC, 1952 series) #10 (August-September 1953) [Reprinted in black and white.]
-
The Ugly One
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
- Pencils
- Joe Orlando (signed)
- Inks
- Joe Orlando (signed)
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- from Weird Science (EC, 1951 series) #21 (September-October 1953) [Reprinted in black and white.]
-
My Home...
comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- from Weird Fantasy (EC, 1951 series) #21 (September-October 1953) [Reprinted in black and white.]
-
Outcast of the Stars
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Ray Bradbury (original); Al Feldstein (adaptation)
- Pencils
- Joe Orlando (signed)
- Inks
- Joe Orlando (signed)
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- from Weird Science (EC, 1951 series) #22 (November-December 1953) [Reprinted in black and white.]
-
The Fossil
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
- Pencils
- Joe Orlando (signed)
- Inks
- Joe Orlando (signed)
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- from Weird Fantasy (EC, 1951 series) #22 (November-December 1953) [Reprinted in black and white.]
-
Fair Trade
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- After a nuclear holocaust, a tribe sells Manhattan Island to aliens.
- Reprints
- from Weird Science-Fantasy (EC, 1954 series) #23 (Spring 1954) [Reprinted in black and white.]
-
The Teacher From Mars
Weird Science-Fantasy / comic story / 7 pages
- Characters
- Professor Mun Zeerohs; Tom Blaine; Robert Graham; Oscar (robot)
- Synopsis
- A Martian teacher on Earth finds his students full of bigotry.
- Reprints
- from Weird Science-Fantasy (EC, 1954 series) #24 (June 1954) [Reprinted in black and white.]
-
- Keywords
- Martian; racism
Indexer Notes
Eando Binder adaptation. "Eando" is pen name of long-time comics scripter Otto Binder.
Harvest
Weird Science-Fantasy / comic story / 7 pages
- Reprints
- from Weird Science-Fantasy (EC, 1954 series) #25 (September 1954) [Reprinted in black and white.]
-
Conditioned Reflex
Incredible Science Fiction / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- from Incredible Science Fiction (EC, 1955 series) #30 (July-August 1955) [Reprinted in black and white.]
-
Fallen Idol
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Jack Oleck
- Pencils
- Joe Orlando (signed)
- Inks
- Joe Orlando (signed)
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- from Incredible Science Fiction (EC, 1955 series) #32 (November-December 1955) [Reprinted in black and white.]
-
Adam Link
Adam Link / text article / 1 page
- Genre
- science fiction
Indexer Notes
Article about the "Adam Link" stories adapted in the next several reprints.
I, Robot
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Otto Binder (credited as Eando Binder); Al Feldstein (adaptation)
- Pencils
- Joe Orlando (signed)
- Inks
- Joe Orlando (signed)
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Dr. Link; Terry (dog); Charley (gardner); Adam Link (Robot)
- Synopsis
- Dr. Link has created a thinking robot who unfortunately is believed to have killed him.
- Reprints
- from Weird Science-Fantasy (EC, 1954 series) #27 (January-February 1955) [Reprinted in black and white.]
-
Indexer Notes
"Eando" is the pen name of long-time comics scripter Otto Binder.
The Trial of Adam Link
comic story / 7 pages
- Reprints
- from Weird Science-Fantasy (EC, 1954 series) #28 (March-April 1955) [Reprinted in black and white.]
-
Indexer Notes
Eando Binder adaptation. "Eando" is pen name of long-time comics scripter Otto Binder.
Adam Link in Business
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Otto Binder; Al Feldstein (adaptation)
- Pencils
- Joe Orlando (signed)
- Inks
- Joe Orlando (signed)
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- from Weird Science-Fantasy (EC, 1954 series) #29 (May-June 1955) [Reprinted in black and white.]
-
Indexer Notes
Eando Binder adaptation. "Eando" is pen name of long-time comics scripter Otto Binder.
[no title indexed]
illustration / 2 pages
Indexer Notes
Panel illustration blown up to fit a two-page spread.
Joe Orlando
text article / 7 pages
- Script
- Steve Ringgenberg (credited as S. C. Ringgenberg)
- Pencils
- Joe Orlando
- Inks
- Joe Orlando
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Biography of Orlando, including a self-portrait and images from his work on the Warren magazine "Blazing Combat."
[no title indexed]
illustration / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Panel illustration blown up to fit a full page.
Behind the Panels
text article / 2 pages
- Script
- Arthur Lortie (credited); Tom Spurgeon (credited); Janice Lee (credited)
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Biographies of Otto Oscar Binder; Ray Douglas Bradbury; Albert B. Feldstein; William Maxwell Gaines; Jack Oleck.
[no title indexed]
illustration / 2 pages
Indexer Notes
Panel illustration blown-up to fit a two-page spread.
[no title indexed]
illustration / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Panel illustration blown-up to fit a full page.
Crime. Horror, Terror, Gore, Depravity, Disrespect for Established Authority - and Science Fiction, Too! The Ups and Downs of EC Comics
text article / 3 pages
- Reprints
[no title indexed]
illustration / 2 pages
Indexer Notes
Panel illustration blown-up to fit a two-page spread.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Judgment Day and Other Stories
-
1.
Judgment Day and Other Stories
-
2.
Table of Contents
-
3.
Orlando Ascendant
-
4.
[no title indexed]
-
5.
The Long Years!
-
6.
In the Beginning...
-
7.
Infiltration
A Science-Fiction SuspenStory -
8.
Disassembled!
-
9.
Judgment Day!
-
10.
Keyed Up!
-
11.
Time For a Change!
-
12.
The Meddlers!
-
13.
The Reformers
-
14.
The Automaton
-
15.
Home Run!
A Science-Fiction SuspenStory -
16.
The Ugly One
-
17.
My Home...
-
18.
Outcast of the Stars
-
19.
The Fossil
-
20.
Fair Trade
-
21.
The Teacher From Mars
Weird Science-Fantasy -
22.
Harvest
Weird Science-Fantasy -
23.
Conditioned Reflex
Incredible Science Fiction -
24.
Fallen Idol
-
25.
Adam Link
Adam Link -
26.
I, Robot
-
27.
The Trial of Adam Link
-
28.
Adam Link in Business
-
29.
[no title indexed]
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30.
Joe Orlando
-
31.
[no title indexed]
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32.
Behind the Panels
-
33.
[no title indexed]
-
34.
[no title indexed]
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35.
Crime. Horror, Terror, Gore, Depravity, Disrespect for Established Authority - and Science Fiction, Too! The Ups and Downs of EC Comics
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36.
[no title indexed]
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37.
[no title indexed]
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38.
Subversive science fiction from Joe Orlando!
This issue was modified by
- Peter Croome
- Alan Hutchinson
- Mark Q
- Jason Sacks
- Steven Samuels
- Richard Thomson
- Eduardo Urrutia
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