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Famed science fiction writer Ray Bradbury provides the foreword to Volume Three of this classic, creepy EC title! This hardcover reprints twenty-four stories by Al Feldstein and Bill Gaines, with art by legendary illustrators such as Wally Wood, Joe Orlando, Jack Kamen, Will Elder and more – all in spectacular full color! Reprints Weird Science issues #13-18, originally published in 1952 and 1953.

In general, the EC WEIRD SCIENCE stories are excellently rendered, with mediocre writing by Al Feldstein. Feldstein had never read SF when Gaines got the idea to do a science fiction comic. He loaned Feldstein some books to read, and Al basically recycled many tried and true plots. His “twist” endings stop being a surprise when you come to expect a twist, and are fairly predictable as he tended toward cataclysmic and tragic endings.

The art, of course, is spectacular. Not only did EC hire top artists, Gaines paid them top dollar. These guys were getting paid by the page, so EC’s rates allowed them to spend more time on each page.