Weird Science #22

In "A New Beginning," a brilliant professor's time machine sends Adam and Eve back to a primordial Earth, tasked with seeding a new, superior humanity. As they stand at the dawn of life, the couple must decide whether to shape the future through science—or let it unfold through the timeless truth of creation.

In a stark clinic bathed in sterile light, a disoriented man is brought in after being found wandering a park, screaming incoherently. The doctor, calm and methodical, administers a sedative and attaches a diathermy machine to the man’s head—only to discover that the treatment cures his madness, leaving behind a strange, identical burn mark on his forehead. The mark is just one in a growing pattern, a mystery the doctor can’t explain, though the truth lies in the unseen: tiny spacemen descending from the void, eradicating worm-like parasites from the minds of the afflicted.

In "My World," a young man recounts his power to conjure entire realities—shaping worlds where aliens and humans coexist, where beauty and ugliness collide, and where life and death unfold at will. The story unfolds as a surreal, intimate glimpse into a mind that writes its own universe, with each page revealing a new scene of wonder and consequence. The artwork, rendered in a sharp, dynamic style, bears the unmistakable mark of Wally Wood.

In "Outcast of the Stars," a devoted father dreams of sharing the vast beauty of space with his children, though he can’t afford a real rocket. With only a broken prototype and his last savings, he crafts a dazzling illusion of flight—fueled not by engines, but by love and imagination.