Issue | #2 |
Published | December 1952-January 1953 |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 36 |
Editing | Harvey Kurtzman |
Notes | Cover based on the story, "Hex!". |
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) |
Pencils | Al Feldstein (signed) |
Inks | Al Feldstein (signed) |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | House ad for Weird Fantasy #16. On inside front cover. |
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 |
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 |
Colors | Marie Severin |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | House ad for E.C. comics. Printed as two ½ pages in bookend fashion around text story sequence. |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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] |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Ad for combination cigarette lighter / cigarettee case. |
Characters | J. E. Smith |
Pencils | ? (photo) |
Inks | ? (photo) |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Ad for tv and radio repair training. On inside back cover. |
Characters | Charles Atlas |
Pencils | ? (photo) |
Inks | ? (photo) |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Ad for body-building course. On back cover. |