 As I mentioned before these are two of my favorite comics I have in my collection and they're the annuals for AC Comics the annuals for 1952 and the annuals for 1953 and What they do from what I remember is they were sort of an anthology. They brought together sort of reprinted some of the stories for the year that AC Comics had and What do is We're gonna flip through one of these now this one The cover is more fragile as you can tell there's a little bit of tape on it and it's holding the cover So maybe we'll flip through the 1953 one But you know what let's open this up to take a look at it, right? so let's put this one aside and We'll end up reading One story. Well, we'll see what we what we like there's 128 pages of science fiction in this 1616 of ec's best yarns from 1951 so these are The book came out in 1952 and it's a reprint of 16 of I guess ec's best-selling stories, right? And these artwork for this stuff is absolutely Magnificent if you're a sci-fi fan ec comics is definitely where you want to be and a horror as well Pre-comic code of course because as soon as a comic comic authority came in Censorship hit the industry You know a lot of these companies went under ec comics being one of them they basically shut down all of their Horror fantasy issues and just basically stuck with mad and love stories, I think If you take a look at this this this comic You know what it's Good plus good very good Does it have any? Well, it's got some What do you call it some touches on it, right? Trying to clean it up spin restore it a little bit. I'm personally not a huge fan of restoration, but You know they stuck on this and this can be undone If we take a look at this you can see You know, it's actually not bad Some of the restoration that's been done If you take a look at this one, right? Come back right there. It's a book. That's intact. Let's do so we don't do any more damage Let's read the fine print and here's mad magazine number one I would love to have this that's for sure Let's take a look at this Weird science fantasy 1952 published by education educational comics. That's easy comics, right? Incorporated 225 Lafayette Street, New York Copyright educational comics printed in USA price types 25 cents No similarities of any of the characters names or persons appearing in this magazine With any of those living or dead is intended and any such similarities are purely coincidental, right? I haven't looked into what story arcs were in this these one or two stories from each one of these But I can't remember so much story some dialogue and a lot of Dex explaining stuff, right earth to escape Atomic war and then after 500,000 years they made their Thousand years they made their return telling you all the story. I just love flipping through these just looking at Looking at the artwork and the way it was told What's this one? The last war on earth Or respondents I guess these are letters to the editor dear editors incredible some of these comics that were produced in the golden age The artists never signed their names because well, I'm not sure why but There are stories that people don't know who did them The artist is unknown and it was killed in time. He sees himself, right? Weird strange Are you a bit confused? Well, we're two when the artist first brought us the idea, but it drew us a Simple explanation which we hear all for you Take a look at this. This is the end the story has ended and They're sharing you what the story was that what the artist was trying to portray the storyline Kirk drove alone along Saw a man in the road Hit him Ran from scene awoke next day Entered timeship examined timeship Started Time drive and it goes over here was thrown back 14 hours in time Ran from timeship saw car coming got hit by my own car Body found a kill themself That's brilliant. Sorry. I gave away the punchline if you're looking forward to reading this but That's pretty brilliant Or another way of putting it the sequence of events Looped back and they crossed over here panel 3 page 2 and panel 3 page 7 were the same event So panel 3 page 2 should we go back? Let's take a look 3 page 2 Right there There's panel 3 page 2 right the shock of seeing his own Likeliness on the road before him cause Kirk to freeze at the wheel I can't stop the car my feet can't move going to hit him So he's in the car right now. I'm gonna go back It's me in the car me Then it was me. I hit on the road last night He killed himself awesome storytelling secret of Saturn's rings Or Saturn's ring Science fiction you could take all of these and just make shows movies This one is signed like quartz yet. No quartz Ever had the reflective quality rather quartz is Translucent lots of dialogue lots of story with the suspense story or spaceships Not on the menu They're on a spaceship. Look at all the food. They got on the spaceship. Look at that one Looks like a dragon so much story here eating like mad falling over is a Nox best friend gobb one Is that gobb one or cool? Got one is a nox best friend advertisement from that period cigarette lighter best thing story, and there's always Nicolette women the coloring on these a the printing process wasn't very good The colors are offset that far we've come Easy fans shock suspense stories more letters you didn't cry it. You know what? Let's read this one. Yeah Let's read this. Check it out. Is it signed at all? It's not signed when we left the planetary paradise that was their home the maidens cried and is flying around There's their spaceship back there The astronauts there's four of them so far My name is Glenn Glenn valent valent Valent my name is Glenn Valent What I'm about to tell you began the day our ship landed on the planet. I call 205 dash D we had been hedge hopping about the galaxy stopping from time to time at predetermined planets in search of raw material solely needed back on earth 205 dash D was to be our last stop before returning to earth We've been gone over two years and we're quite anxious to begin the trip home All right, man. We're down. Let's get into our space suits Thank goodness. This is the last survey we have to make. I'm so darn homesick. So there's five astronauts one by one We donned our space space suits and descended from our ship to the surface of 205 dash D Commander valent, there's no need to use our space suits oxygen content is sufficient Good, then we can remove our helmets. I suggest we wear the suits for protection No telling what we're running to there were five of us in the crew of the earth federation's galactic Exploration rocket ship beside myself. There were Andrew Martin our navigator Carl William our geologist Help me with my instruments Andy Sure thing Carl. So that's the geologist Or navigator as the navigator Herbert Grotsky our flight engineer and Robert Ryle our biologist How's our fuel holding out Herb? We've got more than enough for the trip back back to earth Bob Carl set up his instruments and began to began checking Began to check readings. How's it look Carl? instruments Nothing doing Glenn Not a bleep. No radio act radio active material on this rock either That's been the story wherever we've gone with Earth's uranium supply practically exhausted The world government had been sending out ships like ours all over the galaxy searching for new sources of supply Except for rare plant except for rare planet. They found none to speak of We've had no luck either. So they're looking for uranium for power We'll do nothing We'll do some exploring and start a home tomorrow How about getting started right now Glenn? Bob's got to have time to gather his data her tomorrow. We'll tomorrow be soon enough Okay, Glenn. I'm just a little anxious We began we began moving over the strange terrain There were many forms of alien animals, but nothing vicious looking that's strange There doesn't seem to be any insect insect life on this planet. You're right Bob That's a relief boy. Remember those insects on 202-13 Lord, they were murder suddenly Suddenly as we move through the strange vegetation We came upon a horrible looking little monster feeding upon one of the harmless animals we'd run across look Oh, it's practically devouring it's it's kill When it saw us We skirt into the heavy undergrowth and disappeared will continue it on then Glenn There's something moving up ahead it good Lord and female coming out Look at their arms their skins She came out into the open She was the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. She wasn't exactly human form a translucent membrane Stretch from her arms to her legs on each side. It's a woman not exactly, but close enough She's gorgeous. She moved towards us. Others appeared look more Each as beautiful as she I'm dreaming there must have been eight of them They flitted around us like birds Birds that's it. Those wing-like membranes. I bet at one time these creatures could fly Birds are no They look good to me The gorgeous woman like creatures uttered no sounds. They just looked at us with their exotic shaped eyes and smiled Then I realized what our attraction was hold on boys There here comes the man Wouldn't you know just when things were getting interesting their men were ugly Wise and little wise and wise and wise and Their men were ugly wise and little creatures the planet's nature had Played a foul trick on his female beauties. Their men were hideous Comes the man No wonder we look good to them Looks like their men don't like us. See how they're Glaring at us the shriveled male step forward Raises membrane arm and pointed toward our ship Looks like he wants us to scram jealous. Okay. Okay. We're going But as we turn to leave the woman like creatures crowded around us They seem to be pleading with us to stay Seems as though the gals want us to hang around Glenn They won't have to twist my arm Then the woman beckoned us to follow them the men creatures glared after us as we moved along after them They're like humans and yet. Oh Stop analyzing them Bob. Let's see what they're up to We're coming girls They let us through the jungle Jungle to a large open plane in the center was a gleaming group of Queerly shaped buildings Looks like their city The buildings seem to be constructed of vegetable matter. They obviously know nothing of metal and its uses Just outside the city gates was a groove of wild trees weird trees Scattered among their branches were numerous large globe-like forms. They seem to be constructed of shiny fiber like material You're the bio boy Bob what emblazes are these things are those things Search me Andy. I haven't faintest idea Maybe there maybe that's how they protect their fruit. We passed under the globe Beck trees We passed under the globe back trees and on into and on into the city The bird like woman made a big fuss over us others came to greet us. They brought us trays of food Hey, this stuff is delicious. I hope we're not eating one of those monsters we saw earlier From time to time one of the wrinkled little men creatures appeared Motion to us angrily to go but soon left This is the life they heard Yeah, man Say fellas. Have you noticed they don't talk yet? They seem to be communicating with each other There's the woman right there. Maybe they converse mentally by receiving each other's thoughts Wow, I hope they're not receiving what I'm thinking The feast was wonderful. Then the entertainment began the exotic beauties We weaved and swayed in exciting dance routines Circling the fire they built It's like a siren story Well, man, we've got to be going. Oh, come on Glenn. Let's stick around. Yeah, what's the hurry? I thought you guys were homesick for earth. We were but not anymore Listen Glenn remember what it was like hot sweltering summers freezing winters the mosquitoes eating up up Eating you up alive the cities miles and miles without a tree and the women Yeah, you can have the singles standard Give me this I Take it you boys would like to stay here for a while. Anyway, how about it Glenn? The crew members had made up their minds frankly the idea appealed to me, too. I shrugged and agreed And if the bird men don't get Ornery and if the bird men don't get ornery I'm not sure what ornery means. This could be a delightful experience. I guess angry just think Woman that don't talk not a word man. Oh, man And so we stayed the lovely woman things made us welcome. They gave us places to live waited Honest hand and foot then after about two months. Wow, they stayed two months Congratulate me fellas. I'm getting married Carl the old Casanova boy, it must have taken a lot of a lot of hand signs All thoughts are ever returning to earth left us with Carl Breaking the ice it wasn't long before Andy announced his marriage plans you too Andy Yep, I'm crazy about her. Carl was married first He went through their strange rituals with tongue and cheek and we all wished him luck If we ever decided to return to earth, we'll knock him dead with her Carl. Oh Cut it out fellas And he took his bride soon after how about you guys when do you break down? Not me Andy. I'm not the marrying marrying kind beside there's two largest election One day Herb and I went to see Carl. It was the first time we visited him since his marriage We found him stone dead Good Lord. He's been dead for a long time We've got to bury him Glenn Carl's wife scream Hysterically when we took his body away, she tried to stop us darting at us like a hawk with those wing-like arms Listen sister cut it out. Yeah Where we come from? We bury our dead broken up over Carl's death. We buried him in the spirit of his wife's objections In spite of his wife's objections The bird men just slowly leered at us as though they were glad he died then soon after Bob announced Well you too, I'm going to take the vows Congratulate me. I've decided to get married too. Hey Glenn hear that. Yeah, I heard it And so Bob was married to then one day we went to see Andy We'd not seen him since Carl's funeral When we arrived at the home his wife tried to stop us from going in finally I pushed her aside Enough of this. I want to see Andy Glenn look good lord Andy had been dead for some time. In fact, there wasn't much left of him One of those horrified horribly disgusting monsters was feeding on his remains Kill it kill the hideous thing We whipped out our uranium Disintegrators and blasted the creature to smithereens. I Scream and rave and Andy's wife for letting the ugly monster destroy his body She only stared back at the at me dumbly later. I can't help feel I can't help feeling There's something crazy going on here Going on her no kidding Bob we've got to warn him come on There must be a connection between those ugly monsters and the women her. I've got it You've hit the nail on the head hurry. I hope we're not too late But when we arrived at Bob's home dead, he's dead too Help me get his body To our building Despite his despite his wife's violent objections Herb and I Removed Bob's body to our own place Then I sneaked out of the city to our rocket ship and returned with several sheets of Several sheets of transparent plastic with them I constructed an enclosure somewhat resembling a Shoe showcase into this I place Bob's body. I Don't get it Glenn. What's all this about? I've got a hunch her We've just got got to sit tight and see if I'm right Our vigil began. We took four Four hour shifts watching Bob's body in the plastic case then about a week later Good Lord. Look one of those monsters It was inside the body Just as I suspected Parasites we watch we watched horrified as the hideous creature fed upon poor Bob's remains After her it had completely done away with the body It's it's making one of those globe like things That we saw in the branches of those weird trees when we first came here. Yes See how it's enclosing itself within it Soon the monster was completely encased Inside the silky fiber-like globe What now Glenn just watch and wait her. I'm sure I'm right. I'm right now After about a week later the globe cracked open Something was coming out a complete Manamorphosis had taken place Instead of a disgusting monster one of the beautiful women things emerged Incredible. I can't believe it Glenn This the whole deal and a nutshell herb first of all one of those Wise and little males could have come out too You wondered why there's no insects here Here's your answer. She is an insect. She somewhat resembles earth's butterflies or moths She deposits her eggs inside an animal as the earth moth does on a leaf The larva that hatches in this case a hideous monster Feeds on the body as the earth caterpillar feeds on leaves Then the larva spins the fiber globe or cocoon about itself and finally emerges as a fully developed moth woman We darted from our building out of the city and through the jungle to us to our ship That explains the membrane wings There is their vestigial organs like man's appendix appendix and tonsils Butterflies in human eye for humanoid form Herb and I hastily prepared for takeoff. Meanwhile the lovely moth Women had gathered about her ship. Look Glenn. They're sorry. We're leaving. They're crying Poor things. They don't understand what they've done To them. It was a natural thing As a rocket ship hurled skyward leaving sobbing human but Human butterfly woman far below her turn to me and smile dry Dryly You know Glenn that's the first time I ever saw a moth ball Oh, no the joke That's crazy The end deducing costs. So let's flip through the rest of this book and what we'll do is In another video we'll flip through number 53 and Read a story from that. What was the name of this one? Reducing costs. Jack came in again. I wonder if he did everything The story and the artwork lots of human interactions Very little fight scenes Here's another magazine specifically Designed to terrorize you to make the make the blood flea freeze in your veins For spying tingling tails at their illustrated best read the haunt of fear That was a quick little short story Planetoid I love their spacesuits and stuff there. Look at that And their spaceships are all very round as she is up on the spaceship with binoculars I guess that's the planetoid maybe this sign Joe That's the last story easy science fiction mags must be pretty fiendish to give these two Guluts Guluts a charge. Look at them. These are the three witches, eh? EC is proudest of its two science fiction magazines Weird science and weird fantasy. No, there is no table of contents with the which stories were on which page so this is the 1952 weird science fantasy annual and it was the 16 of ec's best yarns from 1951 16 of their best stories best selling stories, I guess or best reviews stories 128 pages 25 cents Beautiful So what we'll do we'll put this back. We'll throw this back and what we'll do In another video we're going to have a read through weird science fantasy 1953 16 of ec's best yarns from 1952 and again 128 pages For quarter and this one is in better shape, but I don't think this one has any restoration on it And I don't see any tape on this thing There might be but we'll find out when we crack it open. Okay. I'll see you guys in the next video. Bye for now