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Issue Details

Issue #21
Published September-October 1953
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing William M. Gaines

Cover Details

Genre Science Fiction
Pencils Wally Wood
Inks Wally Wood
Reprinted in Weird Science (Gemstone, 1994 series) #21 (September 1997)

8 page story "EC Confidential!"

Genre science fiction
Script Al Feldstein
Pencils Wally Wood
Inks Wally Wood
Colors Marie Severin
Notes Bill Gaines, Al Feldstein, Wally Wood, Joe Orlando, Al Williamson, Jack Kamen and other EC staff (including "P.T. Fables") appear, and are revealed to be Venusians!
Reprinted in Weird Science (Gemstone, 1994 series) #21 (September 1997)

7 page story "Punishment Without Crime"

Genre science fiction
Script Ray Bradbury; Albert B. Feldstein (adaptation)
Pencils Jack Kamen
Inks Jack Kamen
Colors Marie Severin
Reprinted in Tomorrow Midnight (Ballantine Books, 1966 series) #U2142 (June 1966); in Weird Science (Gemstone, 1994 series) #21 (September 1997)

1 page text story "Super-Rocket"

Letters typeset

6 page story "Two's Company..."

Genre science fiction
Script Al Feldstein
Pencils Al Williamson; Frank Frazetta
Inks Al Williamson; Frank Frazetta
Colors Marie Severin
Reprinted in Weird Science (Gemstone, 1994 series) #21 (September 1997)

7 page story "The Ugly One"

Genre science fiction
Script Al Feldstein
Pencils Joe Orlando
Inks Joe Orlando
Colors Marie Severin
Reprinted in Weird Science (Gemstone, 1994 series) #21 (September 1997)

1 page text article "William M. Gaines, Alias Melvin"

Genre bio
Script Al Feldstein
Letters typeset
Notes satirical biography