Issue Details

Issue	#2
Published	December 1952-January 1953
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	36
Editing	Harvey Kurtzman
Notes	Cover based on the story, "Hex!".

Cover Details - "I...I Feel It In My Bones! Someone Is Giving Me The Evil Eye!"

Characters	Casey; Old Dame
Genre	Satire
Pencils	Jack Davis
Inks	Jack Davis
Colors	Marie Severin
Notes	Cover based on the story, "Hex!".
Reprinted	In Tales Calculated To Drive You Mad (EC, 1997 series) #1 (Summer 1997)

1 page Weird Fantasy promo (ad from the publisher) "E.C. Fans!"

Pencils	Al Feldstein (signed)
Inks	Al Feldstein (signed)
Letters	typeset
Notes	House ad for Weird Fantasy #16. On inside front cover.

8 page Terror Dept. story "Hex!"

Characters	Casey; Yeggi Bora; Leo; the Old Dame; Stan Musical; Preacher Rowboat; Eddy Stunky; Melvin Demoogio
Synopsis	Casey's team wins the pennant but loses Casey to the Old Dame.
Genre	humor; occult
Pencils	Jack Davis
Inks	Jack Davis
Colors	Marie Severin
Reprinted	in Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad (EC, 1997 series) #1

7 page Jungle Dept.; Melvin of The Apes story "Melvin!"

Characters	Melvin of The Apes; Boy; Jane; Ookaballakonga tribe
Synopsis	Melvin escapes from the Ookaballakonga tribe with the help of the jungle animals but the tribe shrinks Boy's head.
Genre	Satire
Pencils	John Severin
Inks	John Severin
Colors	Marie Severin
Notes	A parody of Tarzan.
Reprinted	in Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad (EC, 1997 series) #1

1 page E.C. comics promo (ad from the publisher) "E.C. Fans!"

Colors	Marie Severin
Letters	typeset
Notes	House ad for E.C. comics. Printed as two ½ pages in bookend fashion around text story sequence.

1 page text story "Lady-In-Mascara"

Characters	Monongahela Wheeler; Bablou O'Brien; Lady-In-Mascara; Max; Minx
Synopsis	Mo Wheeler believes he's solving a crime but the Lady leads him to a morning radio interview instead.
Genre	humor
Colors	rgrose@saginawtownship.net
Letters	typeset
Reprinted	in Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad (EC, 1997 series) #4

1 page Cosmo McMoon text story "Calling Cosmo McMoon!"

Characters	Cosmo McMoon; F. M. Wavelength; Walla-Walla Bazinski; Croton-on-the-Hudson Bazinski; Baden-Baden Bazinski
Synopsis	Cosmo discovers a baby who is blending all radio broadcasts into a single program.
Genre	Satire
Colors	Marie Severin
Letters	typeset
Reprinted	In Tales Calculated To Drive You Mad (EC, 1997 series) #1

6 page Science-Fiction Dept. story "Gookum!"

Characters	Glarf Nerfnick; Glarf's grandfather; Melvin
Synopsis	A Martian escapes the Gookum on his home planet only to find it apparently exists on Earth also.
Genre	science fiction; humor
Pencils	Wally Wood [as Melvin Wood]
Inks	Wally Wood [as Melvin Wood]
Colors	Marie Severin
Reprinted	In Tales Calculated To Drive You Mad (EC, 1997 series) #1

7 page Crime Dept. story "Mole!"

Characters	Melvin Mole
Synopsis	Melvin is captured during a bank robbery and continually digs his way out of jail.
Genre	humor
Script	Harvey Kurtzman
Pencils	Bill Elder
Inks	Bill Elder
Colors	Marie Severin
Reprinted	in MAD (EC, 1952 series) #22 [with splash panel omitted]; in Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad (EC, 1997 series) #1; in Mad About the Fifties (Little, Brown & Co., 1997 series) #[nn]

1 page H. & S. Sales Co. advertisement "Special...Introductroy Offer"

Letters	typeset
Notes	Ad for combination cigarette lighter / cigarettee case.

1 page National Radio Institute advertisement "Be A Success As a Radio-Television Technician"

Characters	J. E. Smith
Pencils	? (photo)
Inks	? (photo)
Letters	typeset
Notes	Ad for tv and radio repair training. On inside back cover.

1 page Charles Atlas advertisement "Check The Kind of Body You Want!"

Characters	Charles Atlas
Pencils	? (photo)
Inks	? (photo)
Letters	typeset
Notes	Ad for body-building course. On back cover.