In Weird Fantasy 17 (1953), Al Williamson illustrated "The Aliens". Issues 14 and 15 in 1952 ran EC Quickies, a format featuring two similarly themed stories, each three or four pages, in the space usually devoted to a seven or eight-page story.
Stories and themes Ĭreators Gaines and Feldstein made cameos in the stories "Cosmic Ray Bomb Explosion" (14, July–August 1950), "7 Year Old Genius" (7) and "The Expert" (14) and "The Ad" (14). Gaines and Feldstein wrote nearly all stories from 1951–53. Writers in the early issues included Feldstein, Gaines, Kurtzman, Harrison and Gardner Fox. Artists who drew stories for this EC title were Feldstein, Frazetta, Williamson, Orlando, Wally Wood, Harvey Kurtzman, George Roussos, Harrison, Reed Crandall, Will Elder, Bernard Krigstein, Jack Kamen, John Severin and Mac Elkin. Harrison had no editorial control over the contents of the comic aside from his own stories, and he left EC by the end of 1950.Ĭover illustrations were by Feldstein with the exception of two by Joe Orlando, one collaboration by Feldstein and Al Williamson, plus another collaboration by Williamson with Frank Frazetta. Harrison has stated that he and fellow artist Wally Wood were interested in science fiction and supplied Gaines with a lot of science fiction material to read. The same confusion exists for issues #14–17, #17 being the last issue published before EC reset the numbering.Īrtist/writer Harry Harrison claims credit for originally turning Gaines on to the idea of publishing science fiction. Because of this, " Weird Fantasy #13" could refer to either the May/June 1950 issue or the actual 13th issue of the title, published in 1952. The Post Office took note, and starting with issue #6, all the issues were numbered correctly. Although the title and format change took effect with issue 13, Gaines and Feldstein decided not to restart the numbering in order to save money on second class postage.
The bi-monthly science-fiction comic, published by Bill Gaines and edited by Al Feldstein, replaced romance comic A Moon, A Girl. Over a four-year span, Weird Fantasy ran for 22 issues, ending with the November–December 1953 issue.
The companion comic for Weird Fantasy was Weird Science. Weird Fantasy is an American dark fantasy and science fiction anthology comic that was part of the EC Comics line in the early 1950s.
William Gaines, Al Feldstein, Harvey Kurtzman, Harry Harrison, Wally Woodįrank Frazetta, Al Feldstein, Harvey Kurtzman, Wally Wood, Marie Severin, Will Elder, Joe Orlando, Bernie Krigstein, Al Williamson, John Severin
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