Aus dem EC-Archiv - Wally Wood #1

In "Nur die Zeit wird es zeigen," Steve, a lone inventor tinkering with a machine to bend time, finds his quiet work interrupted by a visitor from the future. When the stranger urgently requests his help and takes him on a journey beyond his own era, Steve must confront the weight of choices that stretch across time—without knowing what awaits on the other side.

In a quiet moment of longing, timid Luther dares to dream of Miss Dennis, the woman he’s never spoken to. When he stumbles upon a forbidden book of black magic, he’s drawn into a dangerous experiment with a love potion—only to realize too late that the recipe might be far more deadly than romantic.

In "Reise zu den Sternen!", Don and Jerry launch into space with the ambition of becoming the first humans to conquer interstellar travel. Their journey takes them beyond the solar system and to a massive, inhabited star—only to uncover a staggering truth: they’ve been frozen in time, and upon awakening, they’ve returned to Earth a million years in the future.

In "Auswegslos!", two years into a lonely deep-space voyage, Earth’s crew encounters a strange ship approaching from the void. Through a mysterious neural machine, their growing distrust escalates into a deadly standoff neither can escape.

In "Gerettet!", a new crew lands near the abandoned ship of a vanished expedition, only to uncover the chilling fate that befell its predecessors. As they confront the eerie silence of the alien world, they must unravel the truth behind the first team’s disappearance—before the same horror claims them.

In "Untergang der Titanic!" from *Aus dem EC-Archiv - Wally Wood #1*, a renowned British physicist, driven by a personal tragedy, uses a time machine he’s spent a decade building to journey back to the doomed voyage of the Titanic—his parents, who perished aboard, having sacrificed themselves to save him. The story unfolds with quiet intensity, blending historical tragedy with speculative science, as one man confronts the past to rewrite fate.

In "Zusammenbruch!", Mary brings her husband to Washington to warn the FBI Chief about an alien invasion, only to find their desperate truth met with a twist that leaves them unprepared for what comes next.

In "Die Ausserirdischen!", two alien crews from the second and fourth planets accidentally cross paths while exploring the third, only to misunderstand each other through a simple linguistic misstep. As mistrust spreads and each side retreats home, their governments decide the human inhabitants of the third planet must be erased before they become a threat.

In "Die Feinde der Kolonie!" from *Aus dem EC-Archiv - Wally Wood #1*, members of the Galaktischen Kolonisierungsbehörde arrive on a distant planet after seven years in transit, ready to claim it as their new home. But they soon discover the planet is inhabited by the enigmatic Mokos—and that the so-called threats, like the dangerous Hydro-Files, may not be what they seem.

In "Die Forscher," Captain Scott leads a desperate colony into space as Earth's population crisis spirals out of control. When their research vessel crash-lands on an unknown planet, the crew begins a routine survey—only to vanish one by one, leaving the last two men trapped in a terrifying mystery they barely understand.

In "Brut des Mars," Jean, the first woman to set foot on Mars, feels an unsettling presence as her crewmates explore the red planet’s surface. When one of the ship’s doctors is taken by strange creatures and later returns just before departure, the silence of the alien world takes on a deeper, more ominous weight.

In "Die graue Wolke des Todes!", Captain Larkin and the crew of the Venus-2 stumble upon the derelict Venus-1 drifting through space—its crew stripped of clothing and flesh, leaving behind only a chilling mystery. The story unfolds with eerie precision, blending cold science fiction dread with the unsettling silence of the void.

In "Die Eindringlinge," a sudden broadcast announces the president’s surrender and the end of the war—yet not everyone accepts defeat. A small group of survivors chooses to flee Earth aboard a spaceship, hoping to start anew on a distant planet, unaware of the chilling consequences their arrival will unleash.

In "Das Geheimnis der Saturnringe!", a crew arrives at Saturn’s rings—composed of tiny moons—and sends Stinton and Gentry to study one up close. When the ship returns eight hours later, the two men are gone, leaving behind only silence and a mystery that stretches into the void.