![]() ![]() There are also tales of extreme individual alienation, such as ‘Lost in the Microcosm’ (about a man who just keeps shrinking to the subatomic level - basically a continuation of the story in the ‘Incredible Shrinking Man’ b-movie) Cold War paranoia (alien infiltration in 'The Flying Saucer Invasion’) and the moral responsibilities of technology (in 'The Micro-Race’ a scientist literally plays God).Īll the characters who drive the stories forward are white males, with women at best supporting players (The only female character with a personality more interesting than a doormat is also a murderer). ![]() ![]() While there’s an optimism about technological possibility - that is severely tempered by grim visions of future wars and apocalypses (one story is indeed called 'The Destruction of the Earth'). The stories in this volume lay bare the dreams and fears of their era. In his foreword Star Wars director George Lucas praises Al Feldstein and Bill Gaines for writing what are effectively ‘mini-movies that managed to keep you enthralled and wanting more until the final page, when they would always deliver a big pay-off’. While EC’s bigger sellers were outright horror comics, these science fiction tales were plenty horrific as well, and in subsequent years were enormously influential on popular culture. ![]() ‘The Haunted Fifties’ was what journalist IF Stone called the decade in which EC Comic’s ‘Weird Science’ was published. ![]()
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