Weird Fantasy #2

A 7-year-old boy with an IQ of 250 is enlisted by the government to help build an H-bomb, but when he realizes the weapon’s true danger, he walks away—only to share his story with the editors of EC Comics, who promise to publish his warning in the latest issue of Weird Fantasy.

In "Come into My Parlor," a lonely entomologist is drawn into a surreal encounter with a dazzling woman from a future where men no longer exist—only a society of elegant, devoted women. As he's welcomed into their world, he finds himself the center of attention, pampered and cared for in ways that grow increasingly unsettling. But as the line between hospitality and hunger blurs, he begins to question whether his experience is reality—or a dream he may never wake from.

In "Across the Sun," a stranded Mars-bound crew returns to Earth after a year missing, their ship battered and their warnings urgent: don’t send another ship into space. They speak of a hidden world—Bamuno—existing on the far side of the sun, a parallel Earth long scarred by humanity’s past aggression. Now, as Earth rebuilds, the crew pleads with the base to stay grounded, fearing the cycle of invasion is about to begin again.

Mary Roberts brings her husband Donald to the FBI Chief in Washington, desperate to warn him about an alien invasion. As they face the man they believe is their government’s protector, the truth behind the agents’ identities begins to unravel in chilling fashion.

In "It Didn't Matter," Arnold, the devoted assistant to a wealthy scientist, finds himself drawn to the man’s glamorous wife—only to discover her affection is a mask for greed and betrayal. When she schemes to kill her husband and frame Arnold by sending him through the matter transporter, a violent thunderstorm disrupts the machine, warping her as she emerges on the other side.

In 1839, a group of slave runners capture a group of Africans and plan to transport them to America. When a coast guard ship approaches, they brutally cast the chained slaves into the ocean to evade detection. Shortly after, alien creatures intercept the ship and abduct the slave runners, taking them into space—where, upon encountering a cosmic patrol, they repeat their cruelty, dumping the men into the vacuum of space still chained together.

In the aftermath of a long voyage, the G.C.A. settlers arrive on a distant world, only to find it already home to the enigmatic Mokos and the feared Hydro-Files—both of which challenge everything they thought they knew. As tensions rise between the newcomers and the planet’s native inhabitants, secrets buried beneath the surface begin to surface, threatening to unravel the very foundation of their mission.

In "Spawn of Mars," Jean Belmont makes history as the first woman to step onto the Red Planet, her wonder quickly shadowed by unease. As the crew explores, one of the scientists vanishes—only to return moments before liftoff, unnervingly changed. Jean, already grappling with secrets tied to her husband Ken Fairbanks, begins to suspect the truth behind his sudden return may be far more alien than she ever imagined.

In "The Duplicates," two scientists, each smitten with the same woman, Dora, face a dilemma when she refuses to choose between them. Desperate to have her, they use a duplicating machine to create a copy—only to find themselves drawn to the artificial versions, believing them purer and sweeter than the original. But when the copies begin to age rapidly, their perfect fantasy begins to unravel in ways they never expected.

In "The Connection," a middle-aged scientist rents a basement from a young woman, using the space to build a time machine. As their lives intertwine, she shares a childhood memory of finding an old man hiding in the same basement—memory that takes on new weight as their romance deepens. When the scientist attempts to reverse his age to match hers, his experiment spirals into something far stranger, leading him into a past he never expected to revisit.

In "A Mistake In Multiplication," a crew of spacemen stumbles upon a derelict vessel holding alien creatures in suspended animation, unaware of the chaos their discovery will unleash. Once brought to Earth and studied, the creatures begin multiplying at an alarming rate—despite being separated by gender—revealing a terrifying reproductive method that spirals beyond control. As the survivors scramble to contain the outbreak, the line between science and survival blurs in a race against an ever-growing threat.

When a routine mission to study Saturn’s rings goes awry, Lt. Harold Stinton and Lt. Warren Gentry vanish after landing on a moonlet—leaving Commander Maxwell to make a startling decision. With the crew missing and the ring’s mysterious moonlets under scrutiny, the decision to bring one aboard leads to a chilling discovery: the moonlet is not rock, but a living spore.

In "A Timely Shock!", a man on vacation stumbles upon a mysterious crystal that sends him hurtling into the future when struck by lightning. There, he meets a strikingly beautiful woman who proposes marriage—only to reveal that in this time, women have multiple husbands, and he’s just one of many.

In the quiet aftermath of a forgotten atomic test, a group of survivors confront a haunting truth: their children are not like the rest. Sarah, Miss Prinkle, Mr. Kelly, and astrophysicist Baker find themselves entangled in a growing mystery as young Howard Gabor, a mutant with extraordinary mind, begins to reveal powers that unsettle the world around him.

In the stark silence of a forgotten world, a stranded crew faces starvation as their ship's reactor lies dormant. With rations gone and the planet's food deadly to consume, desperation drives them to the brink—until the captain offers a grim solution. He claims the toxic food is safe, a decision that tests the limits of loyalty and survival. As the crew eats, the truth of his sacrifice begins to unfold, just as the ship's power stirs back to life.

Captain Harrison and Captain Jackson lead a generation ship on a centuries-long voyage to a distant planet, only to discover that the crew ages at a fraction of the normal rate—turning their mission into a decades-long odyssey where time itself becomes the greatest challenge. With the President of Urd overseeing the journey from Earth, the crew must confront the unexpected consequences of slow aging as they navigate survival, leadership, and the weight of a future they may never see.

In a chilling twist of science and desperation, Doctor Hugo Masterson’s groundbreaking formula for shrinking tissue goes horribly wrong when he accidentally injects himself—only to be swallowed whole by his wife, Martha, in a moment of shocking intimacy. As the line between healer and victim blurs, Professor Hardin must confront the terrifying consequences of a discovery that has turned a cure into a prison.

Dr. Sanders and Professor Huxton push the limits of science with a time machine designed to send a camera into the future, capturing a single image from a moment yet to come—only to find their discovery is far more unsettling than they ever imagined.

In "The Thing in the Jar," scientists investigate a mysterious force killing life in Mr. Dorsey's pond, uncovering a sentient liquid organism that absorbs the knowledge of those it dissolves. As they prepare to destroy the threat by setting the pond ablaze with flaming oil, a cleaning lady at their lab unknowingly pours a sample down the drain—setting the stage for something far more insidious.