Weird Science #14

(July-August 1952)

There'll Be Some Changes Made! (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

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

Pencils

Wally Wood (signed as Wood)

Inks

Wally Wood (signed as Wood)

Colors

Marie Severin

Letters

Jim Wroten

First Line of Dialogue or Text

We are sixty-two light years from Earth when it happens!

Genre

science fiction

Synopsis

A group of space explorers land on the planet Gastropodia and meet the locals. Commander Morrison falls in love with the beautiful Luwana and decides to stay behind to marry her as his crew leaves for Earth. He wonders why the inhabitants of the planet all have special igloo like shells they dart into when frightened. He later learns that they are a species of humanoid hermaphroditic snails and to his horror Luwana changes genders into a male.

Reprints

• in Fantastic Exploits (S.F.C.A., 1965 series) #19 (1971)
• in Weird Science (Russ Cochran, 1980 series) #3 ([1980])
• in Weird Science Annual (Gemstone, 1994 series) #3 (December 1995)
• in Weird Science (Gemstone, 1994 series) #14 (December 1995)
• in Weird Science (001 Edizioni, 2006 series) #3 (maggio 2008)
• in Weird Science (Akileos, 2012 series) #2 (janvier 2015)

Indexer Notes

Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.
Cover story.

Inside Story! (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Bill Gaines (co-plotter); Al Feldstein

Pencils

Bill Elder (signed as Elder)

Inks

Bill Elder (signed as Elder)

Colors

Marie Severin

Letters

Jim Wroten (Leroy lettering)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The gathered curious milled about the prostrate figure...

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Doctor Bowles; unnamed coroner; unnamed police lieutenant; unnamed secretary of state; Professor Halpert Steinwell; General Omarhower; Smedley Throbbins (villain); Tony Bellano (villain, death); Charlie Grodsky (villain, death); Joe Erickton (villain, death)

Synopsis

The authorities try to figure how several notorious criminals suddenly die and are discovered to have no heart, lung or stomach, while critically ill patients suddenly recover from their maladies involving those major organs. When they call in Smedley Throbbins, they get their answer: the man simply entered the 4th Dimension, surgically removed the organs in question without cutting through the skin, and then, using surgical techniques, placed them in the patients' bodies. He then disappears into another dimension so he can't be prosecuted for murder.

Reprints

• in Weird Science (Russ Cochran, 1980 series) #3 ([1980])
• in Weird Science Annual (Gemstone, 1994 series) #3 (December 1995)
• in Weird Science (Gemstone, 1994 series) #14 (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) #18 - The Million Year Picnic and Other Stories (January 2017) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Keywords

The Daily Star; The Morning Globe

Warning! (Table of Contents: 3)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Letters

typeset

Synopsis

Shape shifting aliens morph into coins so they can get at and kill world leaders in their plan to conquer Earth.

Reprints

• in Weird Science (Russ Cochran, 1980 series) #3 ([1980])

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

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

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters from Jim Parry, Warren Shane, Peter Davidson, Charmian Drew, Roddy DeVoe, and Frosty Horne.

Strategy! (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

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

Pencils

Sid Check (signed as Sid Check)

Inks

Sid Check (signed as Sid Check)

Colors

Marie Severin

Letters

Jim Wroten

First Line of Dialogue or Text

This story takes place in the year 2152...

Genre

science fiction

Synopsis

In the year 2152, a group of aliens kill a man and steal his brain so they can study it and learn about Earthlings for plans of conquest of Earth. By reading his thoughts they are unimpressed by the primitive technology and weapons of Earthlings and decide to attack. Earth's defence forces strike back and destroy the alien ship with ease. It turns out the man they had killed was a mental patient and believed he was Napoleon Bonaparte. His delusions led the aliens to believe it was early 19th century Earth.

Reprints

• in Weird Science (Russ Cochran, 1980 series) #3 ([1980])
• in I Classici Americani Fantascienza Horror (Edizioni B.S.D., 1991 series) #7 (settembre 1991)
• in Weird Science Annual (Gemstone, 1994 series) #3 (December 1995)
• in Weird Science (Gemstone, 1994 series) #14 (December 1995)
• in Weird Science (001 Edizioni, 2006 series) #3 (maggio 2008)
• in The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) #6 - Child of Tomorrow and Other Stories (July 2013) [Reprinted in black and white.]
• in Weird Science (Akileos, 2012 series) #2 (janvier 2015)

Indexer Notes

Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.

They Shall Inherit (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 Orlando)

Inks

Joe Orlando (signed as Orlando)

Colors

Marie Severin

Letters

Jim Wroten

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The screaming siren wailed its persistant warning!

Genre

science fiction

Synopsis

A leak at a nuclear plant causes some of the rats to become intelligent. As a couple of scientists work on a time machine they discover that far into the future rats have become English speaking, clothes wearing, bipedal intelligent beings who have eradicated humans and cats.

Reprints

• in Weird Science (Russ Cochran, 1980 series) #3 ([1980])
• in Iskalde Grøss (Semic, 1982 series) #2/1992 (uke 10 1992)
• in Weird Science Annual (Gemstone, 1994 series) #3 (December 1995)
• in Weird Science (Gemstone, 1994 series) #14 (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 (July 2023) [Reprinted in black and white.]

Indexer Notes

Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.