Weird Science Vol 1 20

Weird Science Vol 1 #20

July, 1953

Issue Details
Original Price $0.10 USA

Editor-in-Chief

Bill Gaines

Cover Artists

Wally Wood

Publisher

EC Comics

"The Loathsome!"
Writers Bill Gaines Al Feldstein Pencilers Wally Wood Inkers Wally Wood Colourists Marie Severin Letterers Jim Wroten Editors Bill Gaines

"Surprise Package"
Writers Ray Bradbury Al Feldstein Pencilers Jack Kamen Inkers Jack Kamen Colourists Marie Severin Letterers Jim Wroten Editors Bill Gaines

"Progress"

"The Reformers"
Writers Bill Gaines Al Feldstein Pencilers Joe Orlando Inkers Joe Orlando Colourists Marie Severin Letterers Jim Wroten Editors Bill Gaines

"50 Girls 50"
Pencilers Al Williamson Inkers Al Williamson Frank Frazetta Roy Krenkel Colourists Marie Severin Letterers Jim Wroten

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Synopsis for "The Loathsome!"

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A doctor sends a deformed mutant child that was the product of her father's exposure to atomic radiation to be brought up in an orphanage. The women of the orphanage dislike her because she displays poor behavior. One day the younger nurse comments to the older one that the girl is behaving herself recently and the older nurse recalls that all children receive a birthday party at ten years old and the girl must figure she is going to get one. The young woman asks if she is going to give the child one and the older woman states that it would not be right to expect the other children to attend, so they will just skip it in the mutant girl's case. They discover that the girl was spying on them and when she returns to her room she smashes the mirror. She's punished, and that evening the younger nurse sees the girl on the grounds stuffing notes into tree hollows. She assumes that she must be up to no good and informs the older woman. The following evening they confront the child demanding the note and the girl flees from them. She climbs up a tree branch overhanging the orphanage's spiked wall and loses her grip. As the note slips from the hand of the dying impaled child, the older woman picks it up. It says "To whoever finds this note - I love you."

Appearing in "Surprise Package"

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  Appearing in "Progress"

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Synopsis for "Progress"

1-page text story.

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  Appearing in "50 Girls 50"

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Notes

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Trivia

• The mutant girl in "The Loathsome!" was later used as the character model for Maggie in Marvels #2.

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See Also

• Cover gallery for the Weird Science series

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Recommended Reading

• None.

Links and References

• Weird Science issue #20 on Grand Comics Database

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