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The EC Archives
The EC Archives: Weird Science Volume 1
Find out what made EC among the most influential comic book lines ever in this complete and newly re-colored collection! Featuring seminal stories by Al Feldstein, Harvey Kurtzman, Harry Harrison, Wally Wood, Jack Kamen, and Graham Ingles from the first six issues of this pivotal comic book title! Includes an introduction by Star Wars creator, George Lucas!
216 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 7, 2006
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Al Feldstein
368 books48 followersAlbert Bernard Feldstein was an American writer, editor, and artist, best known for his work at EC Comics and, from 1956 to 1985, as the editor of the satirical magazine Mad. After retiring from Mad, Feldstein concentrated on American paintings of Western wildlife.
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April 13, 2022
Some atomic-powered comics of weird science. Quite a few of the stories are fueled by concerns of nuclear threats and war. These stories were written right at the beginning of the Cold War when tensions were heating up. I can see where stories like these influenced Science Fiction of the day and TV like The Twilight Zone. They are quite wordy compared to modern comics but I still enjoyed them.
Received a review copy from Dark Horse and Edelweiss.
Received a review copy from Dark Horse and Edelweiss.
January 17, 2022
No soy ninguna experta en el tema, pero me encantan los cómics viejunos años cincuenta y esta reedición de los archivos de la editorial EC (Entertaining Comics) es una delicia.
Ciencia ficción de la época en que comenzó el terror nuclear y en que la ciencia parecía ofrecer al mismo tiempo una amenaza y una promesa de cambios inmediatos. Hay 'mad doctors' por un tubo, viajes en el tiempo, experimentos que salen mal - muy mal - alienígenas por todas partes... para mí la felicidad total. La edición es preciosa, con los antiguos cómics coloreados digitalmente.
Para una reseña más decente: http://amrazgz.blogspot.com/2020/01/1...
Ciencia ficción de la época en que comenzó el terror nuclear y en que la ciencia parecía ofrecer al mismo tiempo una amenaza y una promesa de cambios inmediatos. Hay 'mad doctors' por un tubo, viajes en el tiempo, experimentos que salen mal - muy mal - alienígenas por todas partes... para mí la felicidad total. La edición es preciosa, con los antiguos cómics coloreados digitalmente.
Para una reseña más decente: http://amrazgz.blogspot.com/2020/01/1...
February 16, 2022
‘The Haunted Fifties’ was what journalist IF Stone called the decade in which EC Comic’s ‘Weird Science’ was published. While EC’s bigger sellers were outright horror comics, these science fiction tales were plenty horrific as well, and in subsequent years were enormously influential on popular culture. In his foreword Star Wars director George Lucas praises Al Feldstein and Bill Gaines for writing what are effectively ‘mini-movies that managed to keep you enthralled and wanting more until the final page, when they would always deliver a big pay-off’.
The stories in this volume lay bare the dreams and fears of their era. While there’s an optimism about technological possibility - that is severely tempered by grim visions of future wars and apocalypses (one story is indeed called 'The Destruction of the Earth'). There are also tales of extreme individual alienation, such as ‘Lost in the Microcosm’ (about a man who just keeps shrinking to the subatomic level - basically a continuation of the story in the ‘Incredible Shrinking Man’ b-movie); Cold War paranoia (alien infiltration in 'The Flying Saucer Invasion’); and the moral responsibilities of technology (in 'The Micro-Race’ a scientist literally plays God).
All the characters who drive the stories forward are white males, with women at best supporting players (The only female character with a personality more interesting than a doormat is also a murderer). Their shortness means the dialogue has to do a lot of explanatory work, which can make it very stilted and declamatory (‘... Yes Professor Harlow, the first war probably started when one cave man beat in another cave man’s head for stealing his wife’). However the brevity of these stories gave them a powerful forward moment on the page, and as Lucas says - they deliver the pay-off!
The stories in this volume lay bare the dreams and fears of their era. While there’s an optimism about technological possibility - that is severely tempered by grim visions of future wars and apocalypses (one story is indeed called 'The Destruction of the Earth'). There are also tales of extreme individual alienation, such as ‘Lost in the Microcosm’ (about a man who just keeps shrinking to the subatomic level - basically a continuation of the story in the ‘Incredible Shrinking Man’ b-movie); Cold War paranoia (alien infiltration in 'The Flying Saucer Invasion’); and the moral responsibilities of technology (in 'The Micro-Race’ a scientist literally plays God).
All the characters who drive the stories forward are white males, with women at best supporting players (The only female character with a personality more interesting than a doormat is also a murderer). Their shortness means the dialogue has to do a lot of explanatory work, which can make it very stilted and declamatory (‘... Yes Professor Harlow, the first war probably started when one cave man beat in another cave man’s head for stealing his wife’). However the brevity of these stories gave them a powerful forward moment on the page, and as Lucas says - they deliver the pay-off!
October 4, 2023
Recopilatorio de la revista de Ciencia Ficción publicada por la E.C. Aunque estas historias son menos famosas que las de Terror no desmerecen de aquellas. Están bien contadas y dibujadas además de tener el "final O. Henry" típico de la editorial. El único demérito que les veo es el abuso de los bloques de texto (Consecuencia del modo de trabajo en cadena de la editorial) Aún así son muy interesantes, tanto por su calidad como por su importancia en la historia del medio.
March 23, 2018
Classic. Gorgeous, beautiful artwork (Kamen and Kurtzman particularly), and despite some heavy-handed writing, there are some intriguing themes to the stories and nice twists in the endings. Definitely a worthwhile piece of comics history.
December 19, 2021
La mayoría de los guiones de estas historias terminan resultando muy ingenuos. Su escritura, sobre todo el argumento y los giros, palidecen frente a lo que muchos autores estaban haciendo en las revistas de ciencia ficción de la época. Es inevitable; su público era menos sofisticado, tal y como demuestra "El hombre que murió... ¡a tiempo!", el lazo causal más básico que tiene una viñeta final de Jack Kamen que explica, y subraya, cómo se cierra el bucle temporal de una manera gráfica (Aunque es un recurso que también vimos en Interestelar y no por ello dejó de verse como "alta" cultura XD). La calidad de estas historietas está en la alegría con la que van pasando todo tipo de invasiones alienígenas, viajes en el tiempo, invenciones extrañas... mientras se entrecruzan con los miedos de los años 50 (la amenaza nuclear, el engaño a través de los medios de comunicación, el peligro de la radiactividad, la amenaza nuclear, la amenaza nuclear...). Y, sobre manera, en la excelente plantilla de ilustradores, en particular Al Feldstein, Wally Wood y un titán como Harvey Kurtzman.
August 15, 2018
Before the song, before the film, there was "Weird Science", the comic book. This volume from 1950-1951, is chock full of flying saucers, aliens, time travel, and mad scientists.
With the superior artwork you'd expect from the gifted stable of artists working at EC, and far more intriguing plots than those coming out of the superhero genre at the time, EC was truly ahead of it's time.
Alas, Frederic Wertham's condemnation of comic books in general would prematurely spell the end of all of EC's titles except "Mad", leaving us all to wonder what"Weird Science" and it's companion titles might have become if they had been allowed to evolve.
With the superior artwork you'd expect from the gifted stable of artists working at EC, and far more intriguing plots than those coming out of the superhero genre at the time, EC was truly ahead of it's time.
Alas, Frederic Wertham's condemnation of comic books in general would prematurely spell the end of all of EC's titles except "Mad", leaving us all to wonder what"Weird Science" and it's companion titles might have become if they had been allowed to evolve.
May 25, 2018
You know EC comics did it all: Crime, Horror, Suspense, Romance, SiFi, War, Fantasy and now WEIRD SCIENCE! If you have never experienced an EC comic with it's excellent art and awesome writing (many of the future legends of the comic industry started their careers here and polished their craft on the EC line of comics) then grab one of the collected volumes that falls into your area of interest. I bet you won't be disappointed and will be surprised at these 1950's comics. EC volumes are always Recommended
January 8, 2022
I really enjoy these EC archive books. They reflect the style of comics from when my dad was a kid which is a blast for me. I look forward to reading all the versions. Weird science stories are some of my favorite things, having a BS in Chemistry.
I received an e-ARC of this book from Dark Horse Comics via Edelweiss. This does not affect my opinion regarding the book.
I received an e-ARC of this book from Dark Horse Comics via Edelweiss. This does not affect my opinion regarding the book.
June 20, 2019
This volume of the EC Archives contains the first six issues of the Weird Science comic book, originally published in 1950-51. The stories are beautifully presented, re-coloured for glossy paper. And, as well as the forward by George Lucas, who read these comics as a child, there is an account by Grant Geissman of how EC Comics and Weird Science came into existence, presented in a number of instalments between the stories.
According to Geissman, Weird Science, and its companion Weird Fantasy, are considered the first “true science fiction comics”. Previous examples had been Flash Gordon-style adventure stories set in space, but Weird Science dealt with alien invasion, robots and time travel. Anxiety about nuclear weapons is a common theme, as it would be in the science fiction cinema that would become increasingly popular as the decade progressed.
I’m sure Weird Science must have been an influence on those films. There is a story in this volume which involves a man accidentally coming under the influence of a machine which causes him to keep shrinking endlessly, until he is smaller than an atom and then smaller and smaller still. This was six years before Richard Matheson would write his novel The Shrinking Man, which would be made into the movie The Incredible Shrinking Man a year after that. That story also made me think of a popular science fiction film from the 90s, but I won’t say which one in case it gives too much away.
Most of the scripts were written by Al Feldstein, from plots worked out with publisher William M. Gaines. Feldstein had a remarkably fertile imagination, although I found from reading the introduction to another E.C. Comics compilation - The Martian Monster and Other Stories - that stories he wrote were often inspired by stories from the old pulp magazines like Weird Tales and Amazing Stories. Apparently he would often use them as jumping off points to come up with a story even better than the original.
Feldstein drew quite a few of the stories himself. Some of the other artists in this volume who would become legends of the form include Wally Wood, Jack Kamen and Harvey Kurtzman, who would create MAD Magazine in 1952. It struck me that Kurtzman’s drawing style - although he had been using it for very serious war stories in another E.C. title, Two-Fisted Tales - is best suited to humour. Man and Superman! which parodies those old physical development ads aimed at 98-pound weaklings is a standout from his stories here.
Made of the Future, drawn by Feldstein, seems to pre-figure The Stepford Wives with it’s plot about a built-it yourself wife.
Experiment… In Death, with art by Jack Kamen, has a similar starting point to Flatliners, though it goes somewhere else.
We get a blob from outer space, secret alien conspiracy on earth, more than one time loop paradox, a rampaging giant man (a la The Amazing Colossal Man and The Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman), sentient plants, and the end of the world several times over. What more could you want? And all so beautifully drawn.
The stories are often more word-heavy than modern comics tend to be, which gives more of the advantages of a text story without losing the appeal that comes from the dramatic illustrations. The issues also contain some one page text stories, which occasionally have a clever enough twist not to come across as just filler.
A mischievous sense of humour is on display at times. There is a story about U.F.O. sightings, which gives a tongue-in-cheek presentation of all aspects of the phenomena at the time - people in isolated rural areas reporting seeing flying saucers - one in Roswell, New Mexico, the generation of a media craze, explanations about weather balloons, rumours that it was a secret military project, official denials, etc. And Louella Parsons, Hollywood gossip columnist, becomes Lula Parsnip, giving a report about an actress wearing a U.F.O.-inspired hat. In another story, a comic strip artist has co-workers whose names are variations on those of actual E.C. artists. And, if you look closely at the cover of the third issue - officially No. 14, because the publishers tried to save on paying for a new mailing permit by pretending Weird Science was a continuation of what had been a comic devoted to love stories in the wild west - you will see that the burned newspaper with a headline reading “U.S. Threatens to Use Hydrogen Bomb to End Atomic War” also has a tiny headline reading “Comic Book Publication Suspended for the Duration.”
Panic!, drawn by Felstein, plays around with the notorious Mercury Theatre War of the World’s radio broadcast that caused widespread panic when listeners thought the martian invasion was real. Orson Welles becomes Carson Walls, and of course the story ends with a twist.
Sometimes the twists are a bit predictable, but that is because we’ve become used to all the tricks now, almost seventy years after these stories first appeared.
Just like so many of the protagonists of these stories you can experience time travel by reading these comics and being transported back to some of yesterday’s futures. The prospect of global disaster hung over the heads of readers back then just as it does for us now. In other ways the 50's seem like a simpler time.
According to Geissman, Weird Science, and its companion Weird Fantasy, are considered the first “true science fiction comics”. Previous examples had been Flash Gordon-style adventure stories set in space, but Weird Science dealt with alien invasion, robots and time travel. Anxiety about nuclear weapons is a common theme, as it would be in the science fiction cinema that would become increasingly popular as the decade progressed.
I’m sure Weird Science must have been an influence on those films. There is a story in this volume which involves a man accidentally coming under the influence of a machine which causes him to keep shrinking endlessly, until he is smaller than an atom and then smaller and smaller still. This was six years before Richard Matheson would write his novel The Shrinking Man, which would be made into the movie The Incredible Shrinking Man a year after that. That story also made me think of a popular science fiction film from the 90s, but I won’t say which one in case it gives too much away.
Most of the scripts were written by Al Feldstein, from plots worked out with publisher William M. Gaines. Feldstein had a remarkably fertile imagination, although I found from reading the introduction to another E.C. Comics compilation - The Martian Monster and Other Stories - that stories he wrote were often inspired by stories from the old pulp magazines like Weird Tales and Amazing Stories. Apparently he would often use them as jumping off points to come up with a story even better than the original.
Feldstein drew quite a few of the stories himself. Some of the other artists in this volume who would become legends of the form include Wally Wood, Jack Kamen and Harvey Kurtzman, who would create MAD Magazine in 1952. It struck me that Kurtzman’s drawing style - although he had been using it for very serious war stories in another E.C. title, Two-Fisted Tales - is best suited to humour. Man and Superman! which parodies those old physical development ads aimed at 98-pound weaklings is a standout from his stories here.
Made of the Future, drawn by Feldstein, seems to pre-figure The Stepford Wives with it’s plot about a built-it yourself wife.
Experiment… In Death, with art by Jack Kamen, has a similar starting point to Flatliners, though it goes somewhere else.
We get a blob from outer space, secret alien conspiracy on earth, more than one time loop paradox, a rampaging giant man (a la The Amazing Colossal Man and The Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman), sentient plants, and the end of the world several times over. What more could you want? And all so beautifully drawn.
The stories are often more word-heavy than modern comics tend to be, which gives more of the advantages of a text story without losing the appeal that comes from the dramatic illustrations. The issues also contain some one page text stories, which occasionally have a clever enough twist not to come across as just filler.
A mischievous sense of humour is on display at times. There is a story about U.F.O. sightings, which gives a tongue-in-cheek presentation of all aspects of the phenomena at the time - people in isolated rural areas reporting seeing flying saucers - one in Roswell, New Mexico, the generation of a media craze, explanations about weather balloons, rumours that it was a secret military project, official denials, etc. And Louella Parsons, Hollywood gossip columnist, becomes Lula Parsnip, giving a report about an actress wearing a U.F.O.-inspired hat. In another story, a comic strip artist has co-workers whose names are variations on those of actual E.C. artists. And, if you look closely at the cover of the third issue - officially No. 14, because the publishers tried to save on paying for a new mailing permit by pretending Weird Science was a continuation of what had been a comic devoted to love stories in the wild west - you will see that the burned newspaper with a headline reading “U.S. Threatens to Use Hydrogen Bomb to End Atomic War” also has a tiny headline reading “Comic Book Publication Suspended for the Duration.”
Panic!, drawn by Felstein, plays around with the notorious Mercury Theatre War of the World’s radio broadcast that caused widespread panic when listeners thought the martian invasion was real. Orson Welles becomes Carson Walls, and of course the story ends with a twist.
Sometimes the twists are a bit predictable, but that is because we’ve become used to all the tricks now, almost seventy years after these stories first appeared.
Just like so many of the protagonists of these stories you can experience time travel by reading these comics and being transported back to some of yesterday’s futures. The prospect of global disaster hung over the heads of readers back then just as it does for us now. In other ways the 50's seem like a simpler time.
August 20, 2015
The weird science was quite an interesting comic book series by 50s standard. I enjoyed the science fiction themes but when it comes to space exploration or alien invasions I just cringed.
December 27, 2019
This is just a matter of personal preference, but the science fiction stories by EC leave me a little cold. I really love the horror stuff and the war stories are top-notch, but these feel derivative. But derivative is not the right term, as all other science fiction from this period owes a debt to these guys. This is where much of the sci fi started, at least the classic stuff. I really just appreciate it less because it's been done to death. So don't take my review to heart if you still love the classics, this might be perfect for you.
April 21, 2007
Finally...extant collections of some of the most influencial and frankly fun comics of all time.
September 7, 2008
I think this book would be awesome to have in the classroom for kids to learn and become interested in science!
April 12, 2016
Read a couple of stories; in full color
November 26, 2021
«Weird Science» no ha tingut el mateix efecte que «Tales from the Crypt». En part perquè el format del producte ja no era cap novetat, però també a causa d'una sensible disminució de la qualitat d'aquest. No en els materials i en els acabats, sinó en les històries que ens explica.
Ja d'entrada ens trobem dos errors ortogràfics flagrants a la coberta del primer fascicle, un detall que vaig deixar passar esperant poder perdonar un cop acabat de llegir, però malauradament no va ser així. Tinc la sensació que la frescor dels relats de terror, el to mordaç i sovint alliçonador de les esbojarrades històries de «Tales from the Crypt» no s'ha sabut transmetre a les històries de ciència-ficció, que resulten anodines i sovint repetitives —massa coets i viatges en el temps— i no acaben de brillar ni deixar petja en el lector. L'element visual tampoc hi acompanya, ple d'elements clàssics més que trillats que difícilment sorprendran o impactaran el lector.
També és cert que el Feldstein de «Weird Science» es fa dur de pair: poc innovador, massa repetitiu i amb uns personatges femenins que esdevenen simples reclams eròtics pel lector de l'època, que segurament eren de gènere masculí; tampoc esperava que tinguessin un protagonisme rellevant, però la barrabassada és massa evident. Tan sols quan apareix el nom d'en Harvey Kurtzman el tema millora. I ho fa sensiblement quan el text i l'art van signats pel mateix autor. Així arribem a «The Last War on Earth» i, sobretot, a «The Radioactive Child», dues peces magnífiques que recuperen la frescor i la mala bava i que es converteixen en dos prodigis de narració visual. Per si sols ja valen els quartos que servidor ha pagat pel volum.
Així doncs dubto si seguiré amb aquesta col·lecció de Diabolo Ediciones. Tot dependrà de qui signi les històries, però tinc clar que si hi ha un predomini de Feldstein, em gastaré els calés en una altra cosa.
Ja d'entrada ens trobem dos errors ortogràfics flagrants a la coberta del primer fascicle, un detall que vaig deixar passar esperant poder perdonar un cop acabat de llegir, però malauradament no va ser així. Tinc la sensació que la frescor dels relats de terror, el to mordaç i sovint alliçonador de les esbojarrades històries de «Tales from the Crypt» no s'ha sabut transmetre a les històries de ciència-ficció, que resulten anodines i sovint repetitives —massa coets i viatges en el temps— i no acaben de brillar ni deixar petja en el lector. L'element visual tampoc hi acompanya, ple d'elements clàssics més que trillats que difícilment sorprendran o impactaran el lector.
També és cert que el Feldstein de «Weird Science» es fa dur de pair: poc innovador, massa repetitiu i amb uns personatges femenins que esdevenen simples reclams eròtics pel lector de l'època, que segurament eren de gènere masculí; tampoc esperava que tinguessin un protagonisme rellevant, però la barrabassada és massa evident. Tan sols quan apareix el nom d'en Harvey Kurtzman el tema millora. I ho fa sensiblement quan el text i l'art van signats pel mateix autor. Així arribem a «The Last War on Earth» i, sobretot, a «The Radioactive Child», dues peces magnífiques que recuperen la frescor i la mala bava i que es converteixen en dos prodigis de narració visual. Per si sols ja valen els quartos que servidor ha pagat pel volum.
Així doncs dubto si seguiré amb aquesta col·lecció de Diabolo Ediciones. Tot dependrà de qui signi les històries, però tinc clar que si hi ha un predomini de Feldstein, em gastaré els calés en una altra cosa.
June 5, 2025
This is just fun. 1950s EC comic books depicting mad scientists, aliens, and crazed adventurers.
It conjures the time when readers and writers and artists had a real, almost innocent sense of wonder about the big, wide universe, science, and the future. On the whole, an optimistic outlook, but a strong promethean touch -- science can turn on you in a heartbeat.
The artwork is fun, typical of the era and that sense of wonder. No overdone action shots, no disorienting closeups -- everything serves the story.
And the stories are simple. Your powers of concentration won't be tested.
A good time.
It conjures the time when readers and writers and artists had a real, almost innocent sense of wonder about the big, wide universe, science, and the future. On the whole, an optimistic outlook, but a strong promethean touch -- science can turn on you in a heartbeat.
The artwork is fun, typical of the era and that sense of wonder. No overdone action shots, no disorienting closeups -- everything serves the story.
And the stories are simple. Your powers of concentration won't be tested.
A good time.
May 18, 2022
5 / 5 for 'The EC Archives - Weird Science Vol 1'
Fantastic 1950's science fiction from the bad boys of Silver Age comics, EC. Wonderful stories and art, especially from such luminaries as Wally Wood and Al Feldstein, all beautifully reproduced (including front covers, letters pages and adverts), and excellently recoloured, by Dark Horse Comics.
These comics were a huge influence on sci-fi culture over the second half of the 20th century - highly recommended to lovers of comics, lovers of twist endings and lovers of sci-fi alike.
5 / 5
Fantastic 1950's science fiction from the bad boys of Silver Age comics, EC. Wonderful stories and art, especially from such luminaries as Wally Wood and Al Feldstein, all beautifully reproduced (including front covers, letters pages and adverts), and excellently recoloured, by Dark Horse Comics.
These comics were a huge influence on sci-fi culture over the second half of the 20th century - highly recommended to lovers of comics, lovers of twist endings and lovers of sci-fi alike.
5 / 5
November 27, 2025
Great stories!
I loved reading reprints of EC Weird Science when I was younger. Didn’t know the history behind EC comics. Now I’m really grateful that these comics survived the government shutdown of great comics like these. Love all the plot twists and gorgeous looking women That the writers and artist portrayed. I’m trying to collect all the kindle versions of all the EC comics including MAD and PANIC. They were way ahead of their time!
I loved reading reprints of EC Weird Science when I was younger. Didn’t know the history behind EC comics. Now I’m really grateful that these comics survived the government shutdown of great comics like these. Love all the plot twists and gorgeous looking women That the writers and artist portrayed. I’m trying to collect all the kindle versions of all the EC comics including MAD and PANIC. They were way ahead of their time!
September 3, 2023
Where Daniel Clowes got the idea for EIGHTBALL:
"Dream of Doom" from WEIRD SCIENCE #12 (#1), May/June 1950.
Drawn by Wally Wood, written by Harry Harrison(!)
Page 3, panel 2, upper right:
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Scroll down for the entire issue:
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"Dream of Doom" from WEIRD SCIENCE #12 (#1), May/June 1950.
Drawn by Wally Wood, written by Harry Harrison(!)
Page 3, panel 2, upper right:
https://animationresources.org/pics/w...
Scroll down for the entire issue:
https://animationresources.org/inbetw...
May 14, 2020
There is a reason EC Archives is a gold standard when it comes to short form storytelling. Every story packed a punch and a surprise twist that somehow magically ties up the story - All in less than 8 pages!
September 7, 2024
The good old days!
This is a fantastic edition of these vintage comics! The writing is superb, and the style of the illustrations is unforgettable!
Recommend this line of comics to anyone who loves graphic storytelling!
This is a fantastic edition of these vintage comics! The writing is superb, and the style of the illustrations is unforgettable!
Recommend this line of comics to anyone who loves graphic storytelling!
October 19, 2024
[2.7]
Collection of enjoyable sci-fi shorts. Decent art and alright storytelling. It hasn’t aged super well though, and the amount of text can be overwhelming. Better than Tales from the Crypt, but I would mostly recommend it for nostalgia reasons and not as much for new readers
Collection of enjoyable sci-fi shorts. Decent art and alright storytelling. It hasn’t aged super well though, and the amount of text can be overwhelming. Better than Tales from the Crypt, but I would mostly recommend it for nostalgia reasons and not as much for new readers
November 10, 2025
Nostalgic Look Back.at Classic EC Comics
A.womderful.tribute to when comics were great. Superb writing and classic artwork. This is also.where.many of got our staet.as SF.fans. Can't wait to.read the next in this series.
A.womderful.tribute to when comics were great. Superb writing and classic artwork. This is also.where.many of got our staet.as SF.fans. Can't wait to.read the next in this series.
December 7, 2021
outstanding adult sci-fi short stories.
Superb writing and art, imaginative stories, better than Twilight Zone and many other books, shows, and movies of this genre.
Superb writing and art, imaginative stories, better than Twilight Zone and many other books, shows, and movies of this genre.
February 7, 2022
Most of the stories are of poor quality, I can see why generally it prompted the CCA, pass on this title and grab their New Direction titles which are far superior.
September 17, 2023
Fun as a historical artifact of early 1950’s science fiction. Pre-Twilight Zone.
Not much “new” here for the modern reader though.
Not much “new” here for the modern reader though.
February 25, 2024
Gorgeous art and some truly trippy concepts. Some of the stories are a bit predictable but the sheer weirdness makes up for it. I look forward to other volumes.
September 17, 2024
An entertaining look at the anxieties felt in the early 1950s. Atomic bombs, time travel, scientific experiments gone awry, creatures from outer space, trips to outer space, it's all here!
September 19, 2024
Too wordy for my tastes, though some interesting ideas.
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