Planète rouge

(1984)

Il viendra des pluies douces (Table of Contents: 1)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Ray Bradbury (original author); Al Feldstein (adaptation); ? (traduction)

Pencils

Wally Wood

Inks

Wally Wood

Letters

?

Genre

science-fiction (science fiction)

Synopsis

This story basically serves as an allegory for human ethical progress failing to keep pace with his technological progress. It describes an automatic house that continues to function long after the people that once lived there have been reduced to dust stains on the wall by nuclear holocaust.

Reprints

• from Weird Fantasy (EC, 1951 series) #17 (January-February 1953) [N&B [B&W]]

Indexer Notes

An adaptation of a Ray Bradbury's Martian story.

Les villes muettes (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Ray Bradbury; Al Feldstein (adaptation); ? (traduction)

Pencils

Reed Crandall

Inks

Reed Crandall

Letters

?

Genre

science-fiction (science fiction)

Characters

Walter Grippe; Genevieve Selsor

Synopsis

Walter surveys a little white silent town on the edge of a dead Martian sea, wondering what happened to all of its inhabitants. He suddenly hears a phone ringing, but he is too late to answer it. After this happens twice, he succeeds in answering a phone and finds a Miss Selsor on the other end, and he meets her, only to find that she is fat and ugly. Knowing that she is the only woman alive and he is the only man, he does the only thing he can: he goes back to the bachelor life!

Reprints

• from Weird Fantasy (EC, 1951 series) #22 (November-December 1953) [N&B [B&W]]

Indexer Notes

An adaptation of a Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles story.

Moi, fusée (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Ray Bradbury (original story); Al Feldstein (adaptation); ? (traduction)

Pencils

Al Williamson; Roy Krenkel; Frank Frazetta

Inks

Al Williamson; Roy Krenkel; Frank Frazetta

Letters

?

Genre

science-fiction (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) [N&B [B&W]]

Châtiment sans crime (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Ray Bradbury (original story); Al Feldstein (adaptation); ? (traduction)

Pencils

Jack Kamen

Inks

Jack Kamen

Letters

?

Genre

science-fiction (science fiction)

Characters

George Hill; Katherine Hill [aka Katie] (George's wife); Leonard Phelps (Katherine's lover); Katherine (a marionette, death); Smith (a Policeman)

Synopsis

Deeply hurt that his wife was in love with another man, George decides to do something that was considered illegal: he paid $10,000 to re-enact his life with a stringless marionette version of Katherine, then murder her as an act of revenge. A cathartic murder....the violent unviolence.....the death without death.....the murdering without murder. Or so he thought.....

Reprints

• from Weird Science (EC, 1951 series) #21 (September-October 1953) [N&B ; -1 page [B&W; -1 page]]

Paria des étoiles (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Ray Bradbury (original story); Al Feldstein (adaptation); ? (traduction)

Pencils

Joe Orlando

Inks

Joe Orlando

Letters

?

Genre

science-fiction (science fiction)

Reprints

• from Weird Science (EC, 1951 series) #22 (November-December 1953) [N&B [B&W]]

Le roi des espaces gris (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Ray Bradbury (original story); Al Feldstein (adaptation); ? (traduction)

Pencils

John Severin

Inks

Bill Elder

Letters

?

Genre

science-fiction (science fiction)

Characters

Ralph Priory; Christopher; Christopher's mother

Synopsis

A group of boys watches the launching of a rocket ship, and two of them wish that they were older and could make the trip themselves. They apply for the Interplanetary Patrol and await their decision once they turn 21, but soon Chris gets a surprise that will change his life forever.

Reprints

• from Weird Fantasy (EC, 1951 series) #19 (May-June 1953) [N&B [B&W]]

Indexer Notes

Ray Bradbury adaptation ("R Is For Rocket").

Le pique-nique d'un million d'années (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Ray Bradbury (original author); Al Feldstein (adaptation); ? (traduction)

Pencils

John Severin

Inks

Bill Elder

Letters

?

Genre

science-fiction (science fiction)

Characters

unnamed father; unnamed mother; parent's children [Mike; Robert; Timothy]

Synopsis

A mother and father take their kids on a million year trip in their boat, past dead cities whose Martian population had been wiped out in a war with the Earth. Finally arriving at one of the cities, the family stops and decides to make their new home there, with Dad promising the kids that they would soon see Martians. After traveling a bit into one of the canals, they peered into the water therein and saw themselves: Martians.

Reprints

• from Weird Fantasy (EC, 1951 series) #21 (September-October 1953) [N&B [B&W]]

Indexer Notes

An adaptation of a Ray Bradbury's Martian story.

Paquet surprise (Table of Contents: 8)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Ray Bradbury (original story); Al Feldstein (adaptation); ? (traduction)

Pencils

Jack Kamen

Inks

Jack Kamen

Letters

?

Genre

science-fiction (science fiction)

Characters

Leonard Hill (mention only); robotic Leonard Hill (death); Martha (villain, death)

Synopsis

Martha was very suspicious of Leonard. Although she planned to kill him, she had this eerie feeling that something was different about him and she wondered if there were two of him. Soon she discovers that she was partially right; there were six of him!

Reprints

• from Weird Science (EC, 1951 series) #20 (July-August 1953) [N&B [B&W]]

Celui qui attend (Table of Contents: 9)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

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

Pencils

Jack Kamen

Inks

Jack Kamen

Letters

?

Genre

science-fiction (science fiction)

Characters

Percy (bachelor scientist); Alec; Petite (a flower girl, death)

Synopsis

Percy is given an unusual plant as a gift from Alec, and he notes that a tiny, 8" tall girl has emerged from it. Percy then takes a special secret solution to shrink in size so that he can take the girl for his own.

Reprints

• from Weird Fantasy (EC, 1951 series) #15 (September-October 1952) [N&B [B&W]]

Les longues années (Table of Contents: 10)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Ray Bradbury (original story); Al Feldstein (adaptation); ? (traduction)

Pencils

Joe Orlando

Inks

Joe Orlando

Letters

?

Genre

science-fiction (science fiction)

Reprints

• from Weird Science (EC, 1951 series) #17 (January-February 1953) [N&B [B&W]]

Indexer Notes

An adaptation of a Ray Bradbury Martian story.

L'heure zéro (Table of Contents: 11)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Ray Bradbury (original story); Al Feldstein (adaptation); ? (traduction)

Pencils

Jack Kamen

Inks

Jack Kamen

Letters

?

Genre

science-fiction (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) [N&B [B&W]]

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 12)

text article / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

? (photo)

Inks

? (photo)

Colors

? (photo)

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Les années 50.

Genre

biographique (biography)

Synopsis

Un résumé de la coopération entre Ray Bradbury et EC Comics. [A summary of the cooperation between Ray Bradbury and EC Comics.]

Indexer Notes

Quatrième de couverture [Back cover]