Monster of the Day #1162

Updated on June 9, 2015 By Ken Begg 14 Comments

The central illustration is so utterly gorgeous that I actually find myself resenting the oversized frame.

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  • I’d hazard a guess that inside this comic is an adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s A Sound of Thunder. The road hovering over the ground is a dead giveaway there.

    The only question I have is whether this was before they started paying Bradbury for using his stories, or after?

  • bgbear_rnh

    Reminds me of “King Dinosaur” if they really had a T-rex rather than a big monitor lizard. Where is “Joey the Lemur”?

  • CaptNemo

    Is it me, or does that thing have rabies?

  • bgbear_rnh

    It has rabies and babies and the babies maybe have rabies.

  • Gamera977

    I was wondering about the road too, does look like the story.

    I was also wondering why the guys are dressed like Colonial Warriors- I’d swear the blonde guy in the back is Starbuck.

  • Luke Blanchard

    I have this story, and that’s what it is. Al Williamson drew the adaptation too.
    They must have paid Bradbury. They even used his title.

  • Luke Blanchard

    They credited the story to him, and it also has a “Copyright, 1952, by Ray Bradbury” notice.

  • bgbear_rnh

    The guy in the front looks like he is doing interpretative dance or a Michael Jackson move.

  • EC played fast and loose with copy-written materiel at one point, but after Bradbury called them on using his stuff they did the right thing. Surprised they didn’t mention his name on the cover.

  • Luke Blanchard

    That’s an interesting point: they did on a few later issues.
    Wikipedia’s page on Tom Godwin’s “The Cold Equations” notes that EC did a story with the same plot in WEIRD SCIENCE #13, only its story came first by a couple of years.

  • Luke Blanchard

    I’m wrong: they only used Bradbury’s name on earlier issues, of WEIRD SCIENCE and WEIRD FANTASY. They billed him as “America’s top science-fiction writer”.

  • Flangepart

    Well, Starbuck with a K-Bar on his belt.

  • Gamera977

    True, and a revolver…

  • Gamera977

    They should have done a sequel where the radiation caused Joey to grow to King Kong size- they could have called it ‘King Lemur’.