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Issue: EC Archives: Weird Science #2
Publication Date: August 2023
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Issues: #2 of 4 Issues
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Publisher: FlagDark Horse
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Indicia Publisher: Dark Horse Books
On Sale Date: 08/30/2023
Volume: 2
Pages: 220
ISBN: 9781506733388
UPC/EAN: 978150673338851999
Price: $25.99 CAD
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Content Items: 80 (30 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: Collects Weird Science (EC, 1952 series) #7-12.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: 8.25 in. x 11 in.
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Binding: softcover
Publishing Format: collected edition
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The EC Archives: Weird Science Volume 2

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Introduction

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Weird Science #7

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It Was a Monster from the Fourth Dimension

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First Line: It came from out of nowhere...
Synopsis: A dairy farmer is terrorized by a pulsating blob floating in the air. His scientist brother determines it's a creature from the fourth dimension and uses a machine to enter the dimension to destroy the creature at the cost of his own life.
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Inspired by "The Monster from Nowhere" by Donald Wandrei.

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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First Line: In this story you will find...
Synopsis: A scientist creates a brilliant machine called the "Physio-Chemical Decomposer and Re-Aligner". It allows him to dissolve a living creature and then reform them. When his beautiful assistant is dissolved and reformed into a statue, the statue is destroyed by the scientist's jealous wife. The scientist attempts to reform her using the broken pieces of the statue but during the process forgot a piece causing her to reform in a ghastly way.
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Miracle!

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First Line: The hard-bitten old miner paused to wipe the sweat from his leathery forehead.
Synopsis: An old miner finds that he can create liquid uranium by chewing tobacco.
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... Gregory Had a Model-T!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Gregory Gearshift (death); Clem (narrator, boarding house owner); Harry (gas station attendant); Gregory's sister; Sheldon (Gregory's brother-in-law)
First Line: Now mind you!
Synopsis: Gregory maintained his residence in a boarding house and the light of his life was his Model-T.....a car that he literally loved. The years passed and Gregory grew much older, yet his feelings for the car never dimmed. One day, he was found unconscious behind the wheel and was taken home where Gregory's sister took charge of her brother's affairs. She sold all of Gregory's possessions to help pay the hospital bills, and the car was sold to his brother-in-law, Sheldon. Oddly enough, the car chased Sheldon everywhere he went, then, after Gregory died, it drove off Suicide Bluff!
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Disclose Notes: Story basically told in flashback.

Marie Severin’s statement that “[Harvey] Kurtzman colored his own art, especially on covers...” (1995) suggests that Kurtzman colored stories that he drew, albeit perhaps less consistently than he colored his cover art.
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Cassell, Dewey, with Aaron Sultan. 2012. “The Artists of EC Comics” (reprinting Severin 1995). In Marie Severin: The Mirthful Mistress of Comics. 46–47. Raleigh: TwoMorrows Publishing.

Severin, Marie (John Province, transcriber [uncredited]). 1995. “Mostly About Color.” In CFA-APA 36, January.
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The Aliens!

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Character(s): Honruh (death); Mandruh; Ben-Abuh (an Arab)
First Line: It was in the vast trackless desert wastes of the strange planet that they first met
Synopsis: Unknowingly, spaceship crews from the 2nd and 4th planets in the solar system meet by chance while exploring the 3rd planet, and a glitch in language makes each group retaliate. When the crews flee back to their home planets, each decides that the people of the 3rd planet pose a major threat to their own peace and security, and each decides to eliminate that planet before that can happen.
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Weird Science #8

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Seeds of Jupiter!

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First Line: From out of the night sky, they plunged to Earth!
Synopsis: A meteor from Venus crashes onto an aircraft carrier spilling out seeds. When one of the seeds gets wet, it hatches out an octopus-like creature that grows bigger when it's exposed to water. Eventually the creature grows so big it attacks New York City.
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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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Cassell, Dewey, with Aaron Sultan. 2012. Marie Severin: The Mirthful Mistress of Comics. Raleigh: TwoMorrows Publishing.
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The Escape

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First Line: Far out in the inky blackness of space...
Synopsis: A man onboard a doomed spacecraft kills his companions so he can use the equipment they were using to escape to Earth. Once he gets to Earth, he's shot and killed by a farmer who mistook him for an alien.
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Invasion!

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First Line: A fleet of Flying Saucers seemed to be approaching for an invasion of the Great City.
Synopsis: The military battles an invasion of flying saucers. After examining the wreckage of one of the downed craft, it's discovered that they were props used in a publicity campaign to promote MUMBO-JUMBOS biscuits.
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Beyond Repair

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First Line: It all began the day I guided my interplanetary rocketship into Spaceport New York!
Synopsis: A handsome pilot falls in love with and steals away the beautiful girlfriend of his scientist roommate only to find out she was a robot he had built.
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The Probers

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Character(s): Gordon Drake (scientist); Captain Scott (Commander of Rocketship 405-X); 405-X's crew [Fenton; Lawson; Cavips (death)]' alien beings (villains)
First Line: Captain Scott moved forward through the huge rocket ship...
Synopsis: Captain Scott is leading his fourth "colony evaluation" into space as the problem of the exploding population of the Earth (due to genetically engineered increased life spans) is getting quite bad. They are brought down to the surface of a planet by some unknown force, and after some exploring, they return to find no ship and vanished guards. A search results in more crew members disappearing until the last two men are captured by alien beings and find they are soon to be vivisected like guinea pigs!
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Weird Science #9

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The Artist of the Issue: Al Feldstein

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The Gray Cloud of Death!

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Character(s): Captain Larkin (death); crew of the Venus-2 [Jackobs; rest un-named] (two un-named crew members die); crew of the Venus-1 (all die)
First Line: On man's first attempt to reach Venus, he encountered...
Synopsis: On their way to the planet Venus, Captain Larkin and the crew of the Venus-2, discover the Venus-1 floating in space and disembark to investigate. They find the crew stripped of their clothing and flesh, as well as anything made of organic material stripped bare. But then they come upon a dead, but preserved body of a crew member, who had written a warning to anyone finding them.
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Some of the story is told in flashback.

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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Cassell, Dewey, with Aaron Sultan. 2012. Marie Severin: The Mirthful Mistress of Comics. Raleigh: TwoMorrows Publishing.
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The Martian Monster

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First Line: Freddy Harmon sat cross-legged on a flat rock under a shady oak tree...
Synopsis: A man dresses up as a Martian in the nearby woods to convince a little boy to murder his father so he and the boys step-mother can get to his money. However the man doesn't realize that there really is a Martian in the woods.
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Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.
Inspired by the story "Mr. Lupescu" by Anthony Boucher.

Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin (see Indexer Notes for “The Gray Cloud of Death!,” above).
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Perchance to Sleep

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Synopsis: In the future science has come up with a way to eradicate sleep so people can be more productive. But when lack of sleep causes people to die young, science tries to create a pill that will help people sleep.
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The Invaders

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Character(s): Keve (death); Nan (death)
First Line: The launching site was deserted!
Synopsis: A radio blares the news that the President has unconditionally surrendered to the enemy and the war is over, and all troops are to lay down their arms. However, some people decide not to surrender, and, instead, escape from the Earth by rocketship, head to another planet, and start over.....with unexpected and devastating results.
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Cover story. The aliens look a lot different in the interior art.

Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin (see Indexer Notes for “The Gray Cloud of Death!,” above).
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The Slave of Evil!

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First Line: The first thing I can remember...
Synopsis: A man is awakened by a couple of scientists in a lab who bid him to commit crimes. He later finds out that he's not a man but a robot.
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Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin (see Indexer Notes for “The Gray Cloud of Death!,” above).
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Weird Science #10

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First Line: Play red hot harmonica music in 8 minutes flat!
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The Maidens Cried

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Character(s): 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)
First Line: When we left the planetary paradise that was their home...
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.
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Disclose 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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Cassell, Dewey, with Aaron Sultan. 2012. Marie Severin: The Mirthful Mistress of Comics. Raleigh: TwoMorrows Publishing.
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Reducing... Costs!

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First Line: 'Duke' Brigmann leaned back in his swivel chair...
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.
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Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin (see Indexer Notes for “The Maidens Cried,” above).
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SuspenStory Fans!

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No Variety!

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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.
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Transformation Completed

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Dr. Emil Hinde; Terry Hinde (Emil's daughter); Lee (Terry's boyfriend)
First Line: Allow me to introduce myself!
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!
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The Planetoid

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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.
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Weird Science #11

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Jack Kamen

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The Conquerors of the Moon!

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Character(s): R. M. Lamont (Chairman of the Board of the Uranium Development Corporation);
First Line: This story has its beginning on that day...
Synopsis: A corporate mining company accidentally destroys all life on Earth while trying to give the Moon an atmosphere.
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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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Only Human!

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Character(s): Andrew Harmon; unnamed M.P.; unnamed Secretary of Defense; Miss Landers; Buster (an electronic brain)
First Line: As Andrew Harmon stepped out of the self-service elevator...
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!
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SuspenStory Fans!

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Discovery

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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.. $.
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Why Papa Left Home

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Character(s): Raymond Williams Jr; Doctor Vandeveer Hybolt; Martha Anders; Mr. Axel
First Line: My name is Raymond Williams, Jr.!
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.
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The Worm Turns

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Character(s): Captain Becker; Vaughn
First Line: Captain Becker moved through the rocketship...
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.
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Weird Science #12

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Wallace Wood

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A Gobl Is a Knog's Best Friend

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Character(s): Captain Harold Dexter; Hawkins; Donaldson; Donaldson's dog; The Gobl (alien leader); The Knogs(alien beings, masters of the Gobl)
First Line: Captain Harold Dexter, commander of the space-ship Polaris-B...
Synopsis: The crew of the Polaris-B were in space, headed toward the second planet of the star Polaris, and experiencing zero gravity. But that wasn't the thing bothering Captain Dexter......it was the dog that Hawkins brought along with him that would not shut up. But the Captain and his crew would never comprehend what lay before them on an alien planet......as pets!
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The Last Man!

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Character(s): Larry; Hank; Larry's sister
First Line: I'd gotten tremendous publicity over my projected attempt...
Synopsis: Larry intends to set the new world's altitude record for an atmospheric balloon. When he reaches an altitude of 15 miles, he spots an atomic explosion on Earth, which proceedes to destroy everything on the planet. After some time, he lands back on the devastated planet, and finds a lone survivor: his sister!
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E.C. Fans!

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Brain!

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Synopsis: A scientist creates an artificial brain and puts it inside a plastic body so he can interact with it by playing checkers, chess etc. He notices that it gets smarter and smarter. Worried the brain might turn on him, he tries to destroy it, but it destroys him first.
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The Android!

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Character(s): Ron Martin; Ron Martin (android); Ellen Corwin (android, secretary to Mr. Martin); Lita (Martin's wife); Cal Tennis (Ron's friend)
First Line: It all began the day central manpower...
Synopsis: Married man Ronald Martin gets a new secretary that he had requested and immediately falls in love with her, not knowing anything about her. When a friend suggests building an android of Ron to be with Martin's wife so that Ron could run away and marry Ellen. Ron is all for it... until the unexpected rears its head.
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Chewed Out!

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Character(s): Bill Gaines (cameo); Al Feldstein (cameo)
First Line: As far as the eye can see...
Synopsis: A simple minded farmer contacts aliens on his ham radio who plan to visit Earth. This causes the military to confiscate his equipment and his home so they can be there when the aliens arrive. The aliens talk about how they landed on Earth and are being destroyed by giant white objects perplexing everyone. When the Sergeant in charge of this operation bites down on something crunchy while eating a hotdog, he realizes that he was eating the ship. The aliens were microscopic and had landed in the Sauerkraut brine of a local hotdog vender.
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