(Spring 1954)

EC, 1954 Series
 
Price
0.25 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
quarterly
On-sale Date
1954
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
I. C. Publishing Co. Inc.
Brand
EC A 3-D Comic
Editing
Bill Gaines (credited as William M. Gaines) (managing editor); Harvey Kurtzman (credited) (editor); Al Feldstein (credited as Albert Feldstein) (editor)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

cover / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
horror-suspense

Directions for Assembling Your Two Versatile E.C. 3-D Viewers (Table of Contents: 1)

activity / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Letters
?

V-Vampires! (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
Harvey Kurtzman
Pencils
Wally Wood
Inks
Wally Wood
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
humor; horror-suspense
Characters
Godiva; Godiva's kid brothers; Renfrew
Synopsis
A vampire goes on a date with a werewolf.

Indexer Notes

References "Vault of Horror" #9.
Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.
Redrawn from the 6 page story in Mad (EC, 1952 series) #3 [not a reprint].

The Monster from the Fourth Dimension (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
Pencils
Bernie Krigstein (signed as B. Krigstein)
Inks
Bernie Krigstein (signed as B. Krigstein)
Colors
Marie Severin
Letters
Jim Wroten

Genre
science fiction
Characters
Hank (a farmer); Willy (scientist, farmer's brother, death); blob (villain, death)
Synopsis
A farmer one day spots a living blob floating through the air, which attacks a cow and devours it. Then that blob disappears, only to reappear on many occasions. Hank gets his scientist brother involved, who figures the creature is from the 4th Dimension, and so builds a transporter to transport the creature back to that dimension. In attempting to do so, its costs Willy his life......but the creature is destroyed also.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Redrawn and retitled (original title "It was a Monster from the Fourth Dimension" from the 8 page story in Weird Science (EC, 1951 series) #7 [not a reprint].

Script, art credits revised, colorist and letterer credits added by Craig Delich.

Some of the story is told in flashback.

Frank Luke (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
Harvey Kurtzman
Pencils
George Evans (signed as Geo. Evans)
Inks
George Evans (signed as Geo. Evans)
Colors
Marie Severin
Letters
Ben Oda

Genre
aviation; historical; war
Characters
Lt. Frank Luke [aka the Balloon Destroyer] (WW1 American ace); Lt. Joe Wehner (WW1 American pilot, death); The French Army; The Germans (villains, some die)
Synopsis
The French are enraptured by the antics of American ace Frank Luke, a pilot who often disobeyed the orders of his superiors, yet racked up victory after victory in the air until that fatal day.
Reprints
Keywords
balloons; Fokkers; World War I

Indexer Notes

Colorist and letterer credits by Craig Delich.
Redrawn (and without the terminal exclamation point in the title) from the 7 page story in Frontline Combat (EC, 1951 series) #13 [not a reprint].

Mr. Biddy... Killer! (Table of Contents: 5)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
Al Feldstein (co-plot, script); Bill Gaines (co-plot)
Pencils
Graham Ingels
Inks
Graham Ingels
Colors
Marie Severin
Letters
Jim Wroten

Genre
horror-suspense
Characters
Sidney Brackman (District Attorney); Emily Chester (Archie's wife, death); Mr. Biddy (figment of ASrchie's imagination); Archie Chester (villain)
Synopsis
Archie in on death row for the murder of his wife, yet he claims that a mysterious Mr. Biddy actually did the killing for Archie.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Redrawn from the 7 page story in Crime SuspenStories (EC, 1950 series) #5, originally drawn by Jack Davis [not a reprint].

The reprint, in The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) #29 - Accidents and Old Lace and Other Stories (2021), was done in 2-D and was taken from the original proofs.

Much of the story is told in flashback.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
  2. 1. Directions for Assembling Your Two Versatile E.C. 3-D Viewers
  3. 2. V-Vampires!
  4. 3. The Monster from the Fourth Dimension
  5. 4. Frank Luke
  6. 5. Mr. Biddy... Killer!
  7. 6. [no title indexed]
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