- Script
- Bill Gaines (sourced) (co-plot); Al Feldstein (sourced) (co-plot, script)
- Pencils
- Al Feldstein (signed as )
- Inks
- Al Feldstein (signed as )
- Colors
- ? (see notes)
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I remember the day it all began!
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- A man who gets dumped by his fiancee stumbles upon a group of travelers from the year 2150 who are sightseeing the 1950s. He accompanies them back to their time period and using their technology builds himself the perfect woman who he returns back to his time period with.
- Reprints
Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin (see Indexer Notes for this issue’s cover, above).
- Script
- Al Feldstein (sourced) (co-plot, script); Bill Gaines (sourced) (co-plot)
- Pencils
- Wally Wood (signed as Wood)
- Inks
- Wally Wood (signed as Wood)
- Colors
- ? (see notes)
- Letters
- Jim Wroten (sourced)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- They left Earth to escape atomic war...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Zak; Albo; Professor von Kugon
- Synopsis
- A group of space travelers leave their own planet to visit a planet nine years away.....a planet that 500,000 years before was home to their own ancestors, and was plagued by constant warfare. When they land, they discover nothing has changed in all those years, as the planet faces yet another atomic war.
- Reprints
- in Weird Science (Russ Cochran, 1980 series) #1 ([1980])
- in Phantastische Geschichten (Norbert Hethke Verlag, 1986 series) #1 (1986)
- in I Classici Americani Fantascienza Horror (Edizioni B.S.D., 1991 series) #4 ([giugno 1991])
- in Iskalde Grøss (Semic, 1982 series) #7/1991 (uke 42 1991)
- in Weird Science (Russ Cochran, 1992 series) #5 (September 1993)
- in EC Archives: Weird Science (Gemstone, 2006 series) #1 (2006)
- in Weird Science (001 Edizioni, 2006 series) #1 (novembre 2006)
- in The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) #12 - Spawn of Mars and Other Stories (January 2015) [Reprinted in black and white.]
- in Aus dem EC-Archiv - Wally Wood (All Verlag, 2018 series) #1 (Dezember 2018)
- in EC Archives: Weird Science (Dark Horse, 2022 series) #1 (January 2022)
Cover story.
Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin (see Indexer Notes for this issue’s cover, above).
- Script
- Al Feldstein
- Letters
- typeset
- Reprints
Letters from Jim Parry, Don Fuller, and "Pedro, the Radioactive Child."
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Pencils
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Inks
- Harvey Kurtzman
- Colors
- Harvey Kurtzman ? (see notes)
- Letters
- Ben Oda
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- ...and now, let's tell you about...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Professor Harlow (death); Arthur (the professor's assistant, death?); Katey Mulrooney; Mike Flanagan; Pat Flanagan; Joe (newspaper worker);
- Synopsis
- Arthur is having a discussion with Professor Harlow, claiming that as long as man is alive on Earth, there will be wars. But the professor doesn't necessarily agree with that assertion. Arthur gives an example of how a group of people can band together to violently face a threat from the outside, and the professor conjectures that possibly a threat from outside the Earth would unite all nations together as one to ward off that threat, and possibly end war once and for all. That threat does come: from Mars!
- Reprints
- Keywords
- United Press Service
The masthead reads: "...and now, let's tell you about The Last War On Earth".
Marie Severin’s statement that “[Harvey] Kurtzman colored his own art, especially on covers...” (1995) suggests that Kurtzman colored stories that he drew, albeit perhaps less consistently than he colored his cover art.
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References:
Cassell, Dewey, with Aaron Sultan. 2012. “The Artists of EC Comics” (reprinting Severin 1995). In Marie Severin: The Mirthful Mistress of Comics. 46–47. Raleigh: TwoMorrows Publishing.
Severin, Marie (John Province, transcriber [uncredited]). 1995. “Mostly About Color.” In CFA-APA 36, January.
- Script
- Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
- Pencils
- Jack Kamen (signed as Jack + Bart Kamen) (sourced); Bart Kamen (signed as Jack + Bart Kamen)
- Inks
- Jack Kamen (signed as Jack + Bart Kamen) (sourced); Bart Kamen (signed as Jack + Bart Kamen)
- Colors
- ? (see notes)
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The man who was
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- In the present, a man accidently runs over and kills himself from 14 hours in the future.
- Reprints
- in Phantastische Geschichten (Norbert Hethke Verlag, 1986 series) #2
- in Weird Science (Russ Cochran, 1980 series) #1 ([1980])
- in Iskalde Grøss (Semic, 1982 series) #3 [1988] (uke 17 1988)
- in I Classici Americani Fantascienza Horror (Edizioni B.S.D., 1991 series) #3 (maggio 1991)
- in Weird Science (Russ Cochran, 1992 series) #5 (September 1993)
- in Nemi (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2003 series) #17 ([august] 2004) [2. translation]
- in EC Archives: Weird Science (Gemstone, 2006 series) #1 (2006)
- in Weird Science (001 Edizioni, 2006 series) #1 (novembre 2006)
- in The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) #24 - The Martian Monster and Other Stories (February 2019) [Reprinted in black and white.]
- in EC Archives: Weird Science (Dark Horse, 2022 series) #1 (January 2022)
Kamen's then five year old son "helped" the art by defacing it with childish scrawls. Kamen then held Bart's hand and guided it to retouch the art. Kamen felt Bart deserved art credit.
Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin (see Indexer Notes for this issue’s cover, above).