Weird Fantasy #2

In the offices of EC Comics, editor Bill Gaines and artist Al Feldstein brainstorm wildly as the Cold War hums in the background, spinning a tale of a terrifying new weapon—the Cosmic Ray Bomb. With a scientist's ambition and a spy's shadow looming, the fate of a nation and the lives of those in the room hang in the balance.

In the quiet hush of the library, timid Luther stumbles upon a book of black magic, his heart racing at the chance to finally win the affection of Miss Dennis. What begins as a desperate hope turns into a chilling mistake when his first attempt at a love potion goes horribly wrong—leaving him scrambling to fix his error before the consequences catch up with him. As he prepares a new try, a clawed hand reaches from the shadows, cutting through the silence.

In "The Trap of Time!", Don Hartley, a grieving physicist still haunted by his wife Adele’s death, races to build a time machine with one desperate goal: undo the night she died. His former professor, Angus MacIntosh, warns him against tampering with time, but when Don’s experiment sends him back to 1946, the past resists change in ways neither man anticipated. With the stakes rising and the timeline unraveling, MacIntosh proposes a new path—one that could rewrite fate, but at a cost no one expected.

In the shadow of the atomic age, Paul Arnold and his partner Karl plot to sell secrets of the bomb to a foreign power—until greed threatens to unravel their dangerous alliance. With the stakes higher than ever, their scheme begins to crack under the weight of betrayal and ambition.