Weird Science #10

(November-December 1951)

The Maidens Cried (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

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

• 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 Weird Science (Gemstone, 1994 series) #10 (December 1994)
• in Weird Science (001 Edizioni, 2006 series) #2 (ottobre 2007)
• 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

205-D (a planet)

Indexer Notes

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.

Reducing... Costs! (Table of Contents: 2)

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

'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

• in Weird Science (Russ Cochran, 1980 series) #2 ([1980])
• in Iskalde Grøss (Semic, 1982 series) #5/1989 (uke 29 1989)
• in I Classici Americani Fantascienza Horror (Edizioni B.S.D., 1991 series) #6 (agosto 1991)
• in Weird Science (Gemstone, 1994 series) #10 (December 1994)
• in Weird Science (001 Edizioni, 2006 series) #2 (ottobre 2007) [original title: Reducing... Costs!]
• in Weird Science (Akileos, 2012 series) #2 (janvier 2015)
• 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) #2

Indexer Notes

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).

No Variety! (Table of Contents: 3)

text story / 1 page (report information)

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

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

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

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

Script

?

Letters

typeset

Reprints

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

Indexer Notes

Letters from Diane McClane, Kenneth Harris, Delmar Dijion, Carol Hoffman and The Old Witch.

Transformation Completed (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

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

• in Weird Science (Russ Cochran, 1980 series) #2 ([1980])
• in I Classici Americani Fantascienza Horror (Edizioni B.S.D., 1991 series) #5 (luglio 1991)
• in Weird Science (Gemstone, 1994 series) #10 (December 1994)
• in Weird Science (001 Edizioni, 2006 series) #2 (ottobre 2007)
• 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

Indexer Notes

Plot and letterer credits by Craig Delich.

Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin (see Indexer Notes for “The Maidens Cried,” above).

The Planetoid (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

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

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

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

• in Weird Science (Russ Cochran, 1980 series) #2 ([1980])
• 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 (Gemstone, 1994 series) #10 (December 1994)
• in Weird Science (001 Edizioni, 2006 series) #2 (ottobre 2007)
• 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.
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).

Al Feldstein (Table of Contents: 7)

text article / 1 page (report information)

Script

Bill Gaines

Letters

typeset

Reprints

• in Weird Science (Russ Cochran, 1980 series) #2 ([1980])

Indexer Notes

EC Artist of the Issue