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Issue Details

Issue #2
Published December 1952-January 1953
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Harvey Kurtzman
Notes Cover based on the story, "Hex!".

Cover Details - "I...I Feel It In My Bones! Someone Is Giving Me The Evil Eye!"

Characters Casey; Old Dame
Genre Satire
Pencils Jack Davis
Inks Jack Davis
Colors Marie Severin
Notes Cover based on the story, "Hex!".
Reprinted In Tales Calculated To Drive You Mad (EC, 1997 series) #1 (Summer 1997)

1 page Weird Fantasy promo (ad from the publisher) "E.C. Fans!"

Pencils Al Feldstein (signed)
Inks Al Feldstein (signed)
Letters typeset
Notes House ad for Weird Fantasy #16. On inside front cover.

8 page Terror Dept. story "Hex!"

Characters Casey; Yeggi Bora; Leo; the Old Dame; Stan Musical; Preacher Rowboat; Eddy Stunky; Melvin Demoogio
Synopsis Casey's team wins the pennant but loses Casey to the Old Dame.
Genre humor; occult
Pencils Jack Davis
Inks Jack Davis
Colors Marie Severin
Reprinted in Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad (EC, 1997 series) #1

7 page Jungle Dept.; Melvin of The Apes story "Melvin!"

Characters Melvin of The Apes; Boy; Jane; Ookaballakonga tribe
Synopsis Melvin escapes from the Ookaballakonga tribe with the help of the jungle animals but the tribe shrinks Boy's head.
Genre Satire
Pencils John Severin
Inks John Severin
Colors Marie Severin
Notes A parody of Tarzan.
Reprinted in Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad (EC, 1997 series) #1

1 page E.C. comics promo (ad from the publisher) "E.C. Fans!"

Colors Marie Severin
Letters typeset
Notes House ad for E.C. comics. Printed as two ½ pages in bookend fashion around text story sequence.

1 page text story "Lady-In-Mascara"

Characters Monongahela Wheeler; Bablou O'Brien; Lady-In-Mascara; Max; Minx
Synopsis Mo Wheeler believes he's solving a crime but the Lady leads him to a morning radio interview instead.
Genre humor
Colors rgrose@saginawtownship.net
Letters typeset
Reprinted in Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad (EC, 1997 series) #4

1 page Cosmo McMoon text story "Calling Cosmo McMoon!"

Characters Cosmo McMoon; F. M. Wavelength; Walla-Walla Bazinski; Croton-on-the-Hudson Bazinski; Baden-Baden Bazinski
Synopsis Cosmo discovers a baby who is blending all radio broadcasts into a single program.
Genre Satire
Colors Marie Severin
Letters typeset
Reprinted In Tales Calculated To Drive You Mad (EC, 1997 series) #1

6 page Science-Fiction Dept. story "Gookum!"

Characters Glarf Nerfnick; Glarf's grandfather; Melvin
Synopsis A Martian escapes the Gookum on his home planet only to find it apparently exists on Earth also.
Genre science fiction; humor
Pencils Wally Wood [as Melvin Wood]
Inks Wally Wood [as Melvin Wood]
Colors Marie Severin
Reprinted In Tales Calculated To Drive You Mad (EC, 1997 series) #1

7 page Crime Dept. story "Mole!"

Characters Melvin Mole
Synopsis Melvin is captured during a bank robbery and continually digs his way out of jail.
Genre humor
Script Harvey Kurtzman
Pencils Bill Elder
Inks Bill Elder
Colors Marie Severin
Reprinted in MAD (EC, 1952 series) #22 [with splash panel omitted]; in Tales Calculated to Drive You Mad (EC, 1997 series) #1; in Mad About the Fifties (Little, Brown & Co., 1997 series) #[nn]

1 page H. & S. Sales Co. advertisement "Special...Introductroy Offer"

Letters typeset
Notes Ad for combination cigarette lighter / cigarettee case.

1 page National Radio Institute advertisement "Be A Success As a Radio-Television Technician"

Characters J. E. Smith
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Letters typeset
Notes Ad for tv and radio repair training. On inside back cover.

1 page Charles Atlas advertisement "Check The Kind of Body You Want!"

Characters Charles Atlas
Pencils ? (photo)
Inks ? (photo)
Letters typeset
Notes Ad for body-building course. On back cover.