(March-April 1951)

EC, 1951 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.10 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
bi-monthly
On-sale Date
1950-12-06
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Fables Publishing Co. Inc.
Brand
EC An Entertaining Comic
Editing
Bill Gaines (credited as William M. Gaines) (managing editor); Al Feldstein (credited) (associate editor)

Issue Notes

The on-sale date is the publication date reported in the U. S. Copyright Office filings.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Al Feldstein (signed as FELDSTEIN)
Inks
Al Feldstein (signed as FELDSTEIN)
Colors
? (see notes)
Letters
?
Genre
science fiction
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Indexer Notes

Colors were previously recorded as the work of Marie Severin, but it is unlikely that Severin had begun coloring at EC when this issue was colored (Cassell 2012, 33–34 and 171). The source previously cited by GCD may have been intended to refer to new colors done for Russ Cochran’s 1980 slipcased reprint of the series.
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Reference:

Cassell, Dewey, with Aaron Sultan. 2012. Marie Severin: The Mirthful Mistress of Comics. Raleigh: TwoMorrows Publishing.

Cover Thumbnail for Weird Science (EC, 1951 series) #6
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Cover gallery

Spawn of Venus (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
Pencils
Al Feldstein (signed as Feldstein)
Inks
Al Feldstein (signed as Feldstein)
Colors
? (see notes)
Letters
Jim Wroten
First Line of Dialogue or Text
The occupants of the space-ship huddled before the large astro-view-screen!
Genre
science fiction
Characters
Cranshaw; Baxter; Barnes; Crawford; John Whitley; Bertrum Whitley
Synopsis
Astronauts on a trip to Venus bring an innocent looking flower back to Earth only to find out that when the flower blooms it releases a monster.
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Indexer Notes

Cover story.

Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin (see Indexer Notes for this issue’s cover, above).

Man and Superman! (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
Harvey Kurtzman
Pencils
Harvey Kurtzman
Inks
Harvey Kurtzman
Colors
Harvey Kurtzman ? (see notes)
Letters
Ben Oda
First Line of Dialogue or Text
This is a story about Niels Urey Vannevar...
Genre
science fiction
Characters
Niels Urey Vannevar (atomic physicist); Charlemagne Farbish (Niels's brother)
Synopsis
Niels is working on increasing the mass of the atom without changing its structure, but his brother is only interested in his body-building. Charlemagne does agree to go to Niels's lab, and while Niels steps out of the room, Charlemagne decides to expose himself to the rays of Niels's machine, which gives him tremendous strength, like that of a superman. Unfortunately, as Charlemagne expends his energy, he begins to tire and lose that strength and disappears, being burnt up in a burst of energy.
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Indexer Notes

Marie Severin’s statement (1995) that “[Harvey] Kurtzman colored his own art, especially on covers...” 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.

Dilemma (Table of Contents: 3)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Letters
typeset
Genre
science fiction
Synopsis
A sick man needs fermented liquids to survive and after being treated with experimental drugs, now causes everything he touches to turn into Moonshine.
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

Cosmic Correspondence / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
Al Feldstein
Letters
typeset
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Indexer Notes

Letters from Don Fuller, Paul Gammon, Jerry Webb, Estelle Kurtzman, and Ken Johnson.

Sinking of the Titanic! (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script
Bill Gaines (sourced) (co-plot); Al Feldstein (sourced) (co-plot, script)
Pencils
Wally Wood (signed as Woody)
Inks
Wally Wood (signed as Woody)
Colors
? (see notes)
Letters
Jim Wroten (sourced)
First Line of Dialogue or Text
He went back in time to prevent the
Genre
historical; science fiction
Characters
George Seymore [also as George Temporal (death)] (British physicist); John Seymore (George's father, death, flashback); Mrs. Seymore (George's mother, death, flashback)
Synopsis
After ten years work, a noted British physicist creates a time-traveling machine, intending to go back in time to prevent the sinking of the ill-fated ship, The Titanic. The reason: his late parents were aboard that vessel and saved his life by giving theirs. However, by strange quirk of fate, George causes the very disaster he went back in time to prevent, but also saved himself as a boy before he died saving him.
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Keywords
Temporal-Traveling Capacitor; Titanic

Indexer Notes

Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin (see Indexer Notes for this issue’s cover, above).

Divide and Conquer (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
Bill Gaines (sourced) (co-plot); Al Feldstein (sourced) (co-plot, script)
Pencils
Jack Kamen (signed)
Inks
Jack Kamen (signed)
Colors
? (see notes)
Letters
Jim Wroten
First Line of Dialogue or Text
As Gloria prepared the hypodermic...
Genre
science fiction
Synopsis
A scientist finds out his wife is planning to kill him, so he injects her with a solution that causes her to undergo binary fission and shrink. Eventually there are over a thousand mini versions of her which he then stamps underfoot like ants.
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Indexer Notes

Inspired by "A Scientist Divides" by Donald Wandrei.

Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin (see Indexer Notes for this issue’s cover, above).

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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
  2. 1. Spawn of Venus
  3. 2. Man and Superman!
  4. 3. Dilemma
  5. 4. [no title indexed]
    Cosmic Correspondence
  6. 5. Sinking of the Titanic!
  7. 6. Divide and Conquer
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