Weird Fantasy #16
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "Mass Meeting!", a mysterious green slime from a crashed spaceship infiltrates the bodies of farm animals, turning them violently green and setting off a tense game of trust among a terrified family. Written by Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein, with moody art by Joe Orlando and vivid coloring by Marie Severin, this eerie 1952 EC tale turns a quiet farm into a battleground of suspicion and unseen threats. The cover, a chilling collaboration by Al Feldstein, captures the moment the alien’s true danger begins to unfold.
In "Mass Meeting!", a Martian uranium tycoon’s ambitious plan to mine Venus for its rich uranium deposits takes a dangerously cosmic turn when he begins teleporting the ore to Mars—unaware that shifting such massive amounts of matter will destabilize the orbits of both planets. As the imbalance grows, Earth finds itself caught in the crossfire of a planetary collision set in motion by greed and unchecked ambition.
In "Skeleton Key!", archaeologist Dr. Donald Purcell and his colleagues uncover a fossilized Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton—complete with a human skull buried alongside it. The mystery deepens when they learn one of their own, Professor Godfrey Clinton, briefly vanished during the dig, only to return with a strange tale of a time-traveling experiment gone wrong. With physicist Bill Wentworth and Dr. Seymour Karnes (death) now drawn into the enigma, the team must unravel how a man from the future ended up in the past—before the bones themselves reveal their final secret.
In the silent emptiness of a lifeless planetoid, Martin—alone for four months—finds himself haunted by apparitions: first a beautiful girl, then another, and finally, his wife Jean, appearing as if from nowhere. As the visions deepen, he must wonder if his mind is breaking or if something far stranger is at play, with the enigmatic Czuk and Trark looming in the shadows of this surreal mystery.
In "The Green Thing!", a mysterious alien lifeform emerges from a crashed spaceship near a quiet farm, infecting first a dog, then a mare, turning them green and driving them to attack. As the family struggles to survive, the creature manipulates their senses by rendering them colorblind—leaving them unable to tell who among them has been taken over. With only a red filter and a camera as their last hope, the son attempts to uncover the truth before the alien claims another victim.
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Reprinted in Weird Fantasy #16 (1952), Squa Tront #2 (1968), EC Portfolio #6 (1977), Weird Fantasy #3 (1980), EC Classics #5 (1986), Science Fiction - Weird Fantasy #[nn] (1987), Weird Fantasy #16 (1996), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #3 (2013), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #8 (2014), The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #34 (2023)
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