(1980)
Russ Cochran,
1980 Series
- Volume
- 4
- Price
- [none]
- Pages
- 180
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Russ Cochran, Publisher
- Brand
-
EC An Entertaining Comic
- Editing
- Russ Cochran
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; science fiction
- Reprints
-
from Weird Fantasy (EC, 1951 series) #21 (September-October 1953)
-
[no title indexed]
cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; science fiction
- Reprints
- from Weird Fantasy (EC, 1951 series) #18 (March-April 1953)
-
Counter-Clockwise
comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- from Weird Fantasy (EC, 1951 series) #18 (March-April 1953)
-
Indexer Notes
Letterer credit by Craig Delich.
Zero Hour
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Ray Bradbury; Al Feldstein (adaptation)
- Pencils
- Jack Kamen (signed as Kamen)
- Inks
- Jack Kamen (signed as Kamen)
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Mary Morris; Mink Morris (daughter of Mary Morris); Henry Morris (Mary's husband); Joseph Conners; Anna; Peggy Ann; Helen (Mary's friend in New York); Tim (Helen's son); Drill (villain, a Martian)
- Synopsis
- Mrs. Morris, at first, thinks nothing of her daughter and a friend playing their game of "invasion". But when Mink starts telling of a Martian named Drill, who is the fore-runner of a Martian invasion of Earth, and Mary discovers that kids of her friends in other parts of the country are playing the same game, she wonders if this is for real.
- Reprints
- from Weird Fantasy (EC, 1951 series) #18 (March-April 1953)
-
Indexer Notes
Letterer credit by Craig Delich.
The Ashtray
text story / 1 page
- Genre
- adventure
- Reprints
- from Weird Fantasy (EC, 1951 series) #18 (March-April 1953)
-
Homesick!
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Al Feldstein
- Pencils
- Al Williamson (signed); Roy Krenkel (on technological details)
- Inks
- Al Williamson (signed); Roy Krenkel (on technological details)
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Colonel Lawrence Ardsley (death); General Minorly (Medical doctor); Colonel David Todd (villain); Lynn Ardsley (villain, Lawrence's wife)
- Synopsis
- David Todd and Lynn Ardsley plot her husband's murder, while David and Lawrence are on a misson to Mars to investigate the planet's landscape and possible life forms. The crime is committed, but with unexpected consequences for David!
- Reprints
- from Weird Fantasy (EC, 1951 series) #18 (March-April 1953)
-
- Keywords
- Space Rocket #X-1; Space Rocket #X-2
Indexer Notes
Krenkel art credits added by Craig Delich.
Letterer credit by Craig Delich.
Judgment Day!
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Tarlton
- Reprints
- from Weird Fantasy (EC, 1951 series) #18 (March-April 1953)
-
Indexer Notes
Letterer credit by Craig Delich.
Notes and Comments
text article / 4 pages
- Script
- Bill Spicer; John Benson; Doug Menville
- Letters
- typeset
[no title indexed]
cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Joe Orlando (signed)
- Inks
- Joe Orlando (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; science fiction
- Reprints
- from Weird Fantasy (EC, 1951 series) #19 (May-June 1953)
-
Al Williamson
text article / 1 page
- Script
- Al Feldstein
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography
- Reprints
- from Weird Fantasy (EC, 1951 series) #19 (May-June 1953)
-
Indexer Notes
EC Artist of the Month
King of the Grey Spaces!
comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- from Weird Fantasy (EC, 1951 series) #19 (May-June 1953)
-
Indexer Notes
Ray Bradbury adaptation ("R Is For Rocket")
Hot-Rod!
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot and script)
- Pencils
- Jack Kamen (signed as Kamen)
- Inks
- Jack Kamen (signed as Kamen)
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Sally (Amos' lover); Cynthia (Amos' wife, death); unnamed time traveler; Amos (villain, a bookkeeper)
- Synopsis
- Amos and Sally are driving by a lake when a strangely garbed man jumps up on the running board of their car and drops a package in the back seat. Later, Amos looks at the package, postmarked May 15, 2053, and discovers something called a trans-dimensional transporter inside. Thinking it to be some sort of gadget to soup up his hot-rod, Amos installs the device, traveling into the future. He then plots to kill his wife and travel into the future to establish an alibi.....with unexpected results.
- Reprints
- from Weird Fantasy (EC, 1951 series) #19 (May-June 1953)
-
- Keywords
- time travel; year 2053
Indexer Notes
Corrected script credits and letterer credit by Craig Delich.
Cleanser
text story / 1 page
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- from Weird Fantasy (EC, 1951 series) #19 (May-June 1953)
-
Brain-Child!
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Al Feldstein
- Pencils
- Al Williamson (signed)
- Inks
- Al Williamson (signed); Roy Krenkel
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- A spaceship (host, death); Colonel Dane (death); un-named General; the Electronic Brain
- Synopsis
- Colonel Dane is selected to pilot a brand new spaceship, powered by an electronic brain, which enables this vessel to be a virtual one-man war rocket. While it seems the rocketship could operate itself with no human pilot, the drawback is the ship is void of emotion: it cannot hate, it doesn't know love and it cannot create. That drawback will cost Dane his life and the electronic brain its housing.
- Reprints
- from Weird Fantasy (EC, 1951 series) #19 (May-June 1953)
-
- Keywords
- Parabolic Mike
Indexer Notes
Krenkel credit added by Craig Delich 2013-9-21.
Time for a Change!
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- from Weird Fantasy (EC, 1951 series) #19 (May-June 1953)
-
[no title indexed]
cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Pencils
- Al Feldstein (signed as Feldstein)
- Inks
- Al Feldstein (signed as Feldstein)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; science fiction
- Reprints
- from Weird Fantasy (EC, 1951 series) #20 (July-August 1953)
-
...For Us the Living
comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- from Weird Fantasy (EC, 1951 series) #20 (July-August 1953)
-
I, Rocket
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Ray Bradbury; Al Feldstein (adaptation)
- Pencils
- Al Williamson (signed); Frank Frazetta (signed as FF)
- Inks
- Al Williamson (signed); Frank Frazetta (signed as FF); Roy Krenkel
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- A Rocketship (narrator); Captain Lamb; Hillary; Skip; Ayres (crew member, Navigator, death); Conrad (crew member, death); Slop (ship's cook, death); Larion (villain, death); Belloc (villain, death)
- Synopsis
- A very expensive new rocketship, once built for war and now rusting away, relates the story of her glory with Captain Lamb in charge, but also of treachery aboard ship, which the rocket secretly dealt with.
- Reprints
- from Weird Fantasy (EC, 1951 series) #20 (July-August 1953)
-
Indexer Notes
Krenkel inking credit added by Craig Delich 2013-9-23.
Discovery
text story / 1 page
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- from Weird Fantasy (EC, 1951 series) #20 (July-August 1953)
-
...Conquers All!
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot and script)
- Pencils
- Jack Kamen (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Kamen (signed)
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- invasion ship crew members [unnamed Chief; unnamed doctor; Phebe; Cuno; Mara; Xano; others unnamed] (villains)
- Synopsis
- As a prelude to an invasion of the Earth, an infiltration rocket from a far distant world is sent to the Earth to examine, estimate, judge and report back to their leaders. But when the crew discovers something not found on their world....emotions....they decide to stay on Earth.
- Reprints
- from Weird Fantasy (EC, 1951 series) #20 (July-August 1953)
-
Indexer Notes
Corrected script credits and letterer credit by Craig Delich.
The Automaton
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- from Weird Fantasy (EC, 1951 series) #20 (July-August 1953)
-
[no title indexed]
cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; science fiction
- Reprints
- from Weird Fantasy (EC, 1951 series) #21 (September-October 1953)
-
My Home...
comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- from Weird Fantasy (EC, 1951 series) #21 (September-October 1953)
-
Saved
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Al Feldstein
- Pencils
- Al Williamson (signed); Roy Krenkel
- Inks
- Al Williamson (signed); Roy Krenkel
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Sangor (a vampire); Keston (G.B.I. man); Morgan (death); Kearne (death); Edwards (death); Martin (death); Jargot (villain, death)
- Synopsis
- A G.B.I. man disguises himself as a space ship crew member in order to discover the truth behind the deaths of many crew members that served with Mr. Jargot aboard the ship "Mercury". He discovers the horrifying truth behind those disappearances......and there is a surprise that waits for him as well!
- Reprints
- from Weird Fantasy (EC, 1951 series) #21 (September-October 1953)
-
- Keywords
- Galactic Bureau of Investigation; Mercury
Indexer Notes
Krenkel art credits added by Craig Delich 2013-9-23.
Millennium
text story / 1 page
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- from Weird Fantasy (EC, 1951 series) #21 (September-October 1953)
-
Planely Possible
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot and script)
- Pencils
- Jack Kamen (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Kamen (signed)
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Walter Thurmond (death); Ruth Thurmond (Walter's wife, death); Dean Warburton (a hospital lab technician)
- Synopsis
- After a serious car accident, Walter's wife slips into a coma and passes away. But when a hospital lab tech approches Walter, telling him that he can transport the grieved man into one of several different planes of existence, one of which has the couple both still alive. Walter agrees.....but soon wishes he hadn't.
- Reprints
- from Weird Fantasy (EC, 1951 series) #21 (September-October 1953)
-
Indexer Notes
Corrected script credits and letterer credit by Craig Delich.
The Million Year Picnic
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Ray Bradbury (original author); Al Feldstein (adaptation)
- Pencils
- John Severin
- Inks
- Bill Elder
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- from Weird Fantasy (EC, 1951 series) #21 (September-October 1953)
-
Indexer Notes
An adaptation of a Ray Bradbury's Martian story.
[no title indexed]
cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Pencils
- Joe Orlando (signed)
- Inks
- Joe Orlando (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- from Weird Fantasy (EC, 1951 series) #22 (November-December 1953)
-
The Silent Towns
comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Ray Bradbury (original author); Al Feldstein (adaptation)
- Pencils
- Reed Crandall
- Inks
- Reed Crandall
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- from Weird Fantasy (EC, 1951 series) #22 (November-December 1953)
-
Indexer Notes
An adaptation of a Ray Bradbury's Martian story.
The Freaks
comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot and script)
- Pencils
- Jack Kamen (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Kamen (signed)
- Letters
- Jim Wroten
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- The Freaks [Bosco (the dog-faced boy, death); Mildred (the fat lady); Elasto (the rubber-skinned man); Aldo (the hairy ape-man); Tarpo (the living skeleton); rest unnamed]; Stanley Gilby (circus co-owner); Ned Smote (circus co-owner); Callon-X (man from the future)
- Synopsis
- The freaks at a circus side show are sick and tired of the stares of the crowds, their snickers, their groans of disgust.....and one decides to quit. But when the freak is found dead in his tent, the circus owners go in search for a replacement. They think they have found one.....but soon they find that the tables have turned on them.
- Reprints
- from Weird Fantasy (EC, 1951 series) #22 (November-December 1953)
-
Indexer Notes
Corrected script credits and letterer credit by Craig Delich.
Public Service!
text story / 1 page
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- from Weird Fantasy (EC, 1951 series) #22 (November-December 1953)
-
Indexer Notes
1/2 of the story is on each page of the centerfold (the other 1/2 of each page is house ads for Weird Science #22 and Picture Stories from the Bible, Science, and World History.
[no title indexed]
Cosmic Correspendence / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Al Feldstein
- Letters
- typeset
- Reprints
- from Weird Fantasy (EC, 1951 series) #22 (November-December 1953)
-
Indexer Notes
No letters but information on joining The E.C. Fan-Addict Club.
The Fossil
comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- from Weird Fantasy (EC, 1951 series) #22 (November-December 1953)
-
Derelict Ship
comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- from Weird Fantasy (EC, 1951 series) #22 (November-December 1953)
-
[no title indexed]
cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Pencils
- Al Feldstein (signed)
- Inks
- Al Feldstein (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- from Weird Science-Fantasy (EC, 1952 series) #1953 (1953)
-
[no title indexed]
illustration / 1 page
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; science fiction
- Reprints
- from Weird Fantasy (EC, 1951 series) #18 (March-April 1953)
-
- Keywords
- astronauts; rockets; space station
Indexer Notes
On back cover.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
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1.
[no title indexed]
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2.
Counter-Clockwise
-
3.
Zero Hour
-
4.
The Ashtray
-
5.
Homesick!
-
6.
Judgment Day!
-
7.
Notes and Comments
-
8.
[no title indexed]
-
9.
Al Williamson
-
10.
King of the Grey Spaces!
-
11.
Hot-Rod!
-
12.
Cleanser
-
13.
Brain-Child!
-
14.
Time for a Change!
-
15.
[no title indexed]
-
16.
...For Us the Living
-
17.
I, Rocket
-
18.
Discovery
-
19.
...Conquers All!
-
20.
The Automaton
-
21.
[no title indexed]
-
22.
My Home...
-
23.
Saved
-
24.
Millennium
-
25.
Planely Possible
-
26.
The Million Year Picnic
-
27.
[no title indexed]
-
28.
The Silent Towns
-
29.
The Freaks
-
30.
Public Service!
-
31.
[no title indexed]
Cosmic Correspendence -
32.
The Fossil
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33.
Derelict Ship
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34.
Russ Cochran Presents the Complete EC Library
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35.
[no title indexed]
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36.
[no title indexed]
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