In Weird Science #10 (Aug 1951), the story “Transformation complete” features a mad scientist who disapproves of his daughter’s fiance and decides to inject him with female hormones to irreversibly transform him into a woman. Lee, the fiance, starts to transform gradually over the course of days until he/she is forced to break off the […]
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Weird Science #8 (April 1951) features a story called “Seeds of Jupiter” in which a meteor crashes on an aircraft carrier. Cracking open the meteor, a navy man finds a bunch of nuts and gives one to “Peachpit”, another navy man who likes sucking on peach pits (?). “Peachpit” obliges but accidentally swallows the nut […]
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Weird Science #7 (February 1951) included the story “It was the Monster from the Fourth Dimension”. In it, a farmer, who just happens to have a brilliant scientist for a brother who can explain things to him and us, encounters a four-dimensional being, as a floating, morphing pink blob. The scientist goes on to explain […]
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The Vault of Horror #18 (January 1951) includes the story “Mask of Horror”. A story about masks, what they hide, what they do to us inside. It is very reminiscent of The Masks, an episode of the Twilight Zone that aired 13 years later. After being rejected by his cold, cheating fiance, Ken buys a […]
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EC Comics continue to push the standards of what they will show in a comic book, showing rotting flesh on a skull. In Tales from the Crypt #23 (January 1951), “Reflection of Death” is a well-written and creepy tale of two men driving on a dark, country road told in the second-person that turns into […]
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In Weird Science #5 (October 1950), a scientist gets an idea to create a fictitious threat to the Earth to unite countries in “The Last War on Earth”. Ozymandias was not the first to come up with this idea. Professor Harlow drops an atom bomb from space onto Middleburg and destroys the town of three […]
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Another horrifying tale in the Haunt of Fear #4 (October 1950), in which a ghoulish hunchback’s hump is discovered to be an evil Siamese twin that demands to eat the flesh of freshly buried corpses.
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In All-Star Comics #56 (October 1950), the Justice Society of America take a trip into the 31st century by hitching a ride on a tour bus from the future. It seems like the future is plagued by chameleon creatures who can masquerade as anyone. The natural form of a Chameleon has pointy ears just like […]
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“Crypt of Terror” is renamed again to the name it will forever be remembered for with Tales from the Crypt #20 (June 1950). “Rx… Death!” is perhaps a cute little six page allegory about substance abuse. Gregg’s live-in sister Janet notices that Gregg spends all his evenings studying and working and stressing. Insisting he get […]
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Although it varies by story, Haunt of Fear #17 (May 1950) shows that EC Comics continue to have the best overall stories by 1950, but the art has also stepped up too. Panels are increasingly filled with shadows and monsters and deranged people. Speaking of deranged people, Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein even make a […]
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