Weird Science #11

(January-February 1952)

Jack Kamen (Table of Contents: 1)

EC Artist of the Issue / text article / 1 page (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein

Letters

typeset

Genre

biography

Reprints

• in Weird Science (Russ Cochran, 1980 series) #2 ([1980])
• in EC Archives: Weird Science (Dark Horse, 2022 series) #2

The Conquerors of the Moon! (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein (script and plot); Bill Gaines (plot)

Pencils

Wally Wood (signed as Wallace Wood)

Inks

Wally Wood (signed as Wallace Wood)

Colors

? (see notes)

Letters

Jim Wroten

First Line of Dialogue or Text

This story has its beginning on that day...

Genre

science fiction

Characters

R. M. Lamont (Chairman of the Board of the Uranium Development Corporation);

Synopsis

A corporate mining company accidentally destroys all life on Earth while trying to give the Moon an atmosphere.

Reprints

• in Weird Science (Russ Cochran, 1980 series) #2 ([1980])
• in I Classici Americani Fantascienza Horror (Edizioni B.S.D., 1991 series) #7 (settembre 1991)
• in Vault of Horror (Russ Cochran, 1991 series) #5 (May 1992)
• in Weird Science (Gemstone, 1994 series) #11 (March 1995)
• in Weird Science Annual (Gemstone, 1994 series) #3 (December 1995)
• in Nemi (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2003 series) #16 ([august] 2004)
• in Weird Science (001 Edizioni, 2006 series) #3 (maggio 2008)
• in The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) #12 - Spawn of Mars and Other Stories (January 2015) [Reprinted in black and white.]
• in Weird Science (Akileos, 2012 series) #2 (janvier 2015)
• in EC Archives: Weird Science (Dark Horse, 2022 series) #2

Keywords

Uranium Development Corporation

Indexer Notes

Plot and letterer credits by Craig Delich.

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.

Only Human! (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)

Pencils

Jack Kamen (signed as Jack Kamen)

Inks

Jack Kamen (signed as Jack Kamen)

Colors

? (see notes)

Letters

Jim Wroten

First Line of Dialogue or Text

As Andrew Harmon stepped out of the self-service elevator...

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Andrew Harmon; unnamed M.P.; unnamed Secretary of Defense; Miss Landers; Buster (an electronic brain)

Synopsis

Romance develops between Andrew Harmon and Miss Landers while they are employed to help educate an electronic brain. Unfortunately, that creates problems for the brain when it also begins to think of Miss Landers!

Reprints

• in Weird Science (Russ Cochran, 1980 series) #2 ([1980])
• in I Classici Americani Fantascienza Horror (Edizioni B.S.D., 1991 series) #6 (agosto 1991)
• in Vault of Horror (Russ Cochran, 1991 series) #5 (May 1992)
• in Weird Science (Gemstone, 1994 series) #11 (March 1995)
• in Weird Science Annual (Gemstone, 1994 series) #3 (December 1995)
• in Weird Science (001 Edizioni, 2006 series) #3 (maggio 2008)
• in The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) #8 - Zero Hour and Other Stories (March 2014) [Reprinted in black and white.]
• in Weird Science (Akileos, 2012 series) #2 (janvier 2015)
• in EC Archives: Weird Science (Dark Horse, 2022 series) #2

Indexer Notes

Letterer credit by Craig Delich.

Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin (see Indexer Notes for “The Conquerors of the Moon!”, above).

Discovery (Table of Contents: 4)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

science fiction

Synopsis

In the far future, archeologists find the remains of 20th century civilization and are perplexed about how the locals worshipped a strange symbol. The symbol is.. $.

Reprints

• in Weird Science (Russ Cochran, 1980 series) #2 ([1980])
• in Vault of Horror (Russ Cochran, 1991 series) #5 (May 1992)
• in Weird Science (Gemstone, 1994 series) #11 (March 1995)
• in EC Archives: Weird Science (Dark Horse, 2022 series) #2

Indexer Notes

Has a spot illustration.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

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

Script

Al Feldstein

Pencils

Al Feldstein

Inks

Al Feldstein

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Reprints

• in EC Archives: Weird Science (Dark Horse, 2022 series) #2

Indexer Notes

Letters from Gordon W. Scott, Jim Thornton, Martin Wasserman, Roger Roberson, Laura Becker, George Winship, and Horace Fishman.

Why Papa Left Home (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein

Pencils

Joe Orlando (signed as J. Orlando)

Inks

Joe Orlando (signed as J. Orlando)

Colors

? (see notes)

Letters

Jim Wroten

First Line of Dialogue or Text

My name is Raymond Williams, Jr.!

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Raymond Williams Jr; Doctor Vandeveer Hybolt; Martha Anders; Mr. Axel

Synopsis

Raymond Williams Jr. is transported 25 years into the past where he discovers why his father left the family abruptly after he was born. Being hurled back into the present, he realizes that he was his own father.

Reprints

• in Weird Science (Russ Cochran, 1980 series) #2 ([1980])
• in Iskalde Grøss (Semic, 1982 series) #3/1990 (uke 16 1990)
• in I Classici Americani Fantascienza Horror (Edizioni B.S.D., 1991 series) #6 (agosto 1991)
• in Vault of Horror (Russ Cochran, 1991 series) #5 (May 1992)
• in Weird Science (Gemstone, 1994 series) #11 (March 1995)
• in Weird Science Annual (Gemstone, 1994 series) #3 (December 1995)
• in Weird Science (001 Edizioni, 2006 series) #3 (maggio 2008)
• in Weird Science (Akileos, 2012 series) #2 (janvier 2015)
• in The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) #34 - The Planetoid and Other Stories (July 2023) [Reprinted in black and white.]
• in EC Archives: Weird Science (Dark Horse, 2022 series) #2

Indexer Notes

Letterer credit by Craig Delich.
Inspired by the story "Child by Chronos" by Charles Harness.

Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin (see Indexer Notes for “The Conquerors of the Moon!”, above).

The Worm Turns (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Al Feldstein

Pencils

Joe Orlando (signed as Joe Orlando)

Inks

Joe Orlando (signed as Joe Orlando)

Colors

? (see notes)

Letters

Jim Wroten

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Captain Becker moved through the rocketship...

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Captain Becker; Vaughn

Synopsis

Vaughn learns about cruelty to animals after the spaceship crew he's a part of crash lands on a gigantic world where they are tormented by one of the native creatures. A gigantic space worm.

Reprints

• in Weird Science (Russ Cochran, 1980 series) #2 ([1980])
• in I Classici Americani Fantascienza Horror (Edizioni B.S.D., 1991 series) #6 (agosto 1991)
• in Vault of Horror (Russ Cochran, 1991 series) #5 (May 1992)
• in Weird Science (Gemstone, 1994 series) #11 (March 1995)
• in Weird Science Annual (Gemstone, 1994 series) #3 (December 1995)
• in Weird Science (001 Edizioni, 2006 series) #3 (maggio 2008)
• in Weird Science (Akileos, 2012 series) #2 (janvier 2015)
• in The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) #34 - The Planetoid and Other Stories (July 2023) [Reprinted in black and white.]
• in EC Archives: Weird Science (Dark Horse, 2022 series) #2

Indexer Notes

Letterer credit by Craig Delich.

Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin (see Indexer Notes for “The Conquerors of the Moon!”, above).