- Script
- Al Feldstein (script and plot); Bill Gaines (plot)
- Pencils
- Wally Wood (signed as Wood)
- Inks
- Wally Wood (signed as Wood)
- Colors
- ? (see notes)
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- When we left the planetary paradise that was their home...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Commander Glenn Valent; Andrew Martin (ship's navigator, death); Carl William (ship's geologist); Herbert Groosky (ship's engineer, death); Robert Reill (ship's biologist, death); the Butterfly women (villains)
- Synopsis
- Valent and his crew have been hedge-hopping the galaxy, searching various planets for much-needed raw materials back on Earth, specifically uranium. After two years, the crew is ready to get back home after this mission. When they land, a group of beautiful women suddenly approach the crew along with their men who are hideous to look at. Many of the crew marry the women, but then learn too late that they are actually the planet's insect life.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- 205-D (a planet)
Plot and letterer credits by Craig Delich.
Much of the story is told in flashback.
Cover story.
Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin, but it is unlikely that Severin had begun coloring at EC when this issue was colored (Cassell 2012, 33–34 and 171).
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Reference:
Cassell, Dewey, with Aaron Sultan. 2012. Marie Severin: The Mirthful Mistress of Comics. Raleigh: TwoMorrows Publishing.
- Script
- Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
- Pencils
- Jack Kamen (signed as )
- Inks
- Jack Kamen (signed as )
- Colors
- ? (see notes)
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- 'Duke' Brigmann leaned back in his swivel chair...
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- A couple of arena owners are desperate because their arena to too small to compete with "The Garden." A scientist offers a solution. He can make it so people will unknowingly shrink when they enter the building thus allowing them to bring in more people for sporting events. The shrinking process backfires.
- Reprints
Letterer credit by Craig Delich.
Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.
Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin (see Indexer Notes for “The Maidens Cried,” above).
- Script
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- A man who takes a pill that makes it so he doesn't require food is complaining because the sandwiches that he's secretly eating are always the same.
- Reprints
- Script
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Reprints
Letters from Diane McClane, Kenneth Harris, Delmar Dijion, Carol Hoffman and The Old Witch.
- Script
- Al Feldstein (script and plot); Bill Gaines (plot)
- Pencils
- Wally Wood (signed as Wood)
- Inks
- Wally Wood (signed as Wood)
- Colors
- ? (see notes)
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Allow me to introduce myself!
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Dr. Emil Hinde; Terry Hinde (Emil's daughter); Lee (Terry's boyfriend)
- Synopsis
- Dr. Hinde was very possessive of his daughter, and when she became engaged to a man he didn't like, he decided to conduct his sex gene experiments on the young man without his knowledge. But when Terry finds out, she takes drastic action that ends in a most unusual wedding!
- Reprints
Plot and letterer credits by Craig Delich.
Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin (see Indexer Notes for “The Maidens Cried,” above).
- Script
- Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
- Pencils
- Joe Orlando (signed as )
- Inks
- Joe Orlando (signed as )
- Colors
- ? (see notes)
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- This is what probably happened!
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- A group of space explorers find a small planetoid and go to investigate. They are startled by the insect-sized beings who live there and are then attacked by flying and stinging insect-sized objects. They flee. It turns out that it was Earth and those insects were humans and the flying objects were jet fighters.
- Reprints
Letterer credit by Craig Delich.
Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.
Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin (see Indexer Notes for “The Maidens Cried,” above).
- Script
- Bill Gaines
- Letters
- typeset
- Reprints
EC Artist of the Issue