E.C. Classic Reprint #5

In a future where a radioactive comet has rendered all mammals sterile, two aging scientists make a desperate bid to save humanity by sending a time wave back to the past. They activate a time field at Grand Central Station, hoping to bring future generations forward to repopulate the world—only to discover that, for some reason, only men are arriving.

In "The Trip!", Dr. Masterson faces a daunting challenge for the Space Colonization Authority: transporting live animals across light-years for future colonists. When he devises a solution using quick-freeze technology, he makes a desperate, personal decision—freezing his assistant Ellen to escape his failing marriage and start anew on a distant world.

In the future, Jo and her young son grow weary as their husband and father vanishes on interplanetary missions. When the boy wishes upon a falling star that his father would finally come home to stay, the star’s fiery descent reveals a shocking truth — the man he longs for may not be coming back in the way he imagined.

In "Don't Count Your Chickens...", a boy’s Easter egg hunt takes a bizarre turn when he discovers a strange egg that speaks to him mind-to-mind, urging him to hide it in a secret cave. What hatches from the egg is no ordinary creature—it grows rapidly, demands meat, and soon becomes a monstrous force on the loose, leaving destruction in its wake. As the military moves in, the boy’s brief moment of innocence gives way to a chilling realization: the eggs aren’t just a one-time anomaly. Across America, other children are now finding strange eggs of their own.