A Moon, A Girl ... Romance - True Stories of Young Love
"I Thought I Loved My Boss," A Moon, A Girl ... Romance #10, November - December 1949, 7pgs. Script: Unknown. Pencils: Harry Harrison. Inks: Wally Wood. Signed 'Harry Wood'. 'When I went to work as Ronald Schuyler's secretary thought that at last I had come face-to-face with the great love of my life ... But I was soon destined to re-learn that old maxim - Youth and age cannot mingle!'
Harry Harrison also wrote the 'agony aunt' column 'Advice from Amy' for
issue 10, offering "counsel on problems relating to dates, social
activities, married life and many other subjects of vital interest." The
letters and replies for this column were made up by EC staff - one of the
letters in this issue is from 'William G.' who's having problems getting a
date for the prom...
From issue 13 onwards, this comic was replaced by Weird Science.
Saddle Romances - All True Modern Western Love Stories
From issue 12 onwards, this comic was replaced by Weird Science.
Modern Love - Real Love Stories
"Too Busy for Love," Modern Love #5, February - March 1950, 7pgs.
Script: Unknown. Pencils: Harry Harrison. Inks: Wally Wood. Unsigned.
'The world acclaimed me a success, but no one really knew how my heart and
soul ached with bitter loneliness. Yes, I had a career, I was famous and
envied, but I was - Too Busy for Love.'
Gunfighter - Thrilling Stories of the Wild West
From issue 15 onwards, this comic was replaced by The Haunt of Fear.
War Against Crime - Real Stories from Police Records
From issue 12 onwards, this comic was replaced by The Vault of Horror.
The Vault of Horror
Haunt of Fear
Weird Science
Reprinted by East Coast Comics (1973-75) as EC Classic Reprint
#11.
Weird Fantasy
Reprinted by East Coast Comics (1973-75) as EC Classic Reprint #5.
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"I Was a Wild Girl," A Moon, A Girl ... Romance #10, November -
December 1949, 6pgs. Script: Unknown. Pencils and Inks: Harry Harrison.
Colours: Marie Severin. Unsigned. 'I hated the man who loved my mother! I
felt a senseless, unreasoning rage that shook me whenever I saw him! For he
was good and he was kind and I - I was a wild girl.'
"Hearts Along the Ski Trail," A Moon, A Girl ... Romance #11,
January - February 1950, 8pgs. Script: Unknown. Pencils: Harry Harrison.
Inks: Wally Wood. Colours: Marie Severin. Signed 'W. Wood and H. Harrison.'
'He was the pampered darling of rich women who took lessons in skiing from
him - She was only the traveling companion of one of those rich women - But
when he and she went on that fateful winter ride to Lookout Rock, wealth
and fame were forgotten and they became a pair of - Hearts Along the Ski
Trail.' Cover art for the same story was by Al Feldstein.
"Rx for Romance," A Moon, A Girl ... Romance #12, March - April
1950, 7pgs. Script: Unknown. Pencils: Harry Harrison. Inks: Wally Wood.
Colours: Marie Severin. Signed 'Harrison Wood'. 'My lonely, tormented heart
ached for the love of this handsome doctor who knew the magic of medicine
be had no Rx for Romance.'
"An Indian Love Call," Saddle Romances #9, November -
December 1949, 6pgs. Script: Unknown. Pencils and inks: Harry Harrison.
Unsigned. 'When my eyes first looked into those of Gordon Feathers, my
heart seemed to burst with - An Indian Love Call.' 'As told to the editors
by Little Firefly, Osage Indian Princess! ... All names in this true love
story have been fictionized to avoid revealing the identities of those
involved!'
"The Heart Robber," Saddle Romances #10, January - February 1950,
7pgs. Script: Unknown. Pencils: Harry Harrison. Inks: Wally Wood.
Unsigned.
"Playtime Cowgirl," Saddle Romances #11, March - April 1950, 8pgs.
Script: Unknown. Pencils: Wally Wood. Inks: Harry Harrison. Signed 'Wood +
Harrison.' 'My love for Ken was as big as the whole wide West, but I nearly
destroyed that love, for I was just a - Playtime Cowgirl.'
"Three-Cornered Romance," Modern Love #4, December 1949 - January
1950, 7pgs. Script: Unknown. Pencils and inks: Harry Harrison. Unsigned. 'I
should have known that as soon as I brought Tommy Blaine into our house ...
As soon as I admitted my love to him to my older sister ... I would become
involved in a - Three-Cornered Romance.'
"Video Romance," Modern Love #5, February - March 1950, 7pgs.
Script: Unknown. Pencils and Inks: Graham Ingels and Harry Harrison. 'I was
just a hard-working girl, getting calluses on my fingertips from my
typewriter keys at Mason and Everett's department store when I met my -
Video Romance.'
"The Love That Might Have Been," Modern Love #6, April - May 1950,
7pgs. Script: Unknown. Pencils: Harry Harrison. Inks: Wally Wood. Signed
'Harrison Wood'. The cover illustrating the same story was by Al Feldstein.
'I had been married for just a year when tragedy struck and took my husband
from my side! In my loneliness I turned to Doctor Gregg Macy, and found to
my surprise that he had become much more than a companion to me ... Had
become, in fact - The Love That Might Have Been.'
"They Wouldn't Let Me Love Him," Modern Love #7, June - July 1950,
8pgs. Script: Unknown. Pencils: Harry Harrison. Inks: Wally Wood. Unsigned.
The cover illustrating the same story was by Al Feldstein. 'My name is
Elena ... Elena Perez! This is the tragic story of my life ... The story of
a lost love! I am condemned to a lonely, tortured life because - They
Wouldn't Let Me Love Him.'
"Illegal to Love!" Modern Love #8, August - September 1950, 6pgs.
Script: Unknown. Pencils: Harry Harrison. Inks: Wally Wood. Unsigned. 'All
my dreams were fulfilled when I married the man I loved ... We lived in a
paradise on Earth! Then our harden of Eden was destroyed by a volcanic
explosion of hate and heartbreak when we discovered it was - Illegal to
Love!'
"Terror on the Trail," Gunfighter #13, January - February 1950,
7pgs. Script: Unknown. Pencils: Harry Harrison. Inks: Wally Wood. A
'Six-Gun Sisters' story.
"The Dead Man's Trail," Gunfighter #14, March - April 1950, 8pgs.
Script: Gardner Fox. Pencils: Harry Harrison. Inks: Wally Wood. A 'Six-Gun
Sisters' story.
"A Bed of Murder," War Against Crime #11, February - March 1950,
7pgs. Script: Harry Harrison(?) Pencils and inks: Harry Harrison.
"The Werewolf Legend," The Vault of Horror #12, April - May 1950,
7pgs. Script: Gardner Fox. Pencils: Harry Harrison. Inks: Wally Wood. 'My
name is Walter Mallory. I am an Englishman, and until recently, thought
myself perfectly sane and normal. And then, when those horrible changes
came over my body, when my blood hungered to kill and raven in the full of
the moon, I became part of - The Werewolf Legend.'
"The Curse of Harkley Heath," The Vault of Horror #13, June - July
1950, 7pgs. Script: Unknown (Harry Harrison?). Pencils: Jules Feiffer(?).
Inks: Harry Harrison and Wally Wood. Unsigned. 'What is the terror
surrounding this once splendid home? Why do the very walls shake as if from
some impending disaster? Who are the shadowy dwellers living here under the
spell of - The Curse of Harkley Heath.'
"Werewolf," The Vault of Horror #14, August - September 1950, 7pgs.
Script: Jules Feiffer or Harry Harrison? Pencils: Jules Feiffer(?) Inks:
Harry Harrison. Unsigned. Harry Harrison is quoted in Tales of Terror:
The EC Companion: "Very famous. Bill Gaines fired me right after
this."
"The Mad Magician," Haunt of Fear #15, May - June 1950,
7pgs. Script: Gardner Fox. Pencils: Harry Harrison. Inks: Wally Wood.
Colours: Marie Severin. 'Boris Petaja was skilled in the tricks of ancient
and modern magic. His hands moved and his voice called on the spirits to
aid him. Deep down in his brain, something stirred and whispered, that his
magic was not faked ... but real! And brooding, Boris Petaja became - The
Mad Magician.'
"Dream of Doom," Weird Science #12, May - June 1950, 7pgs. Script:
Harry Harrison(?). Pencils: Harry Harrison. Inks: Wally Wood. This story
features a comics publisher 'Gill Baines' along with caricatures of the EC
staff.
"The Meteor Monster," Weird Science #13, July - August 1950, 7pgs.
Script: Al Feldstein or Harry Harrison? Pencils: Harry Harrison. Inks:
Wally Wood. Colours: Marie Severin.
"Machine from Nowhere," Weird Science #14, September - October 1950,
6pgs. Script: Al Feldstein or Harry Harrison. Pencils and inks: Harry
Harrison. Colours: Marie Severin. The story is 'inspired' by "Mechanical
Mice," by Maurice A. Hugi.
"Only Time Will Tell," Weird Fantasy #13, May - June 1950,
7pgs. Script: Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein(?). Pencils: Jules Feiffer(?).
Inks: Harry Harrison and Wally Wood. Colours: Marie Severin. Unsigned. 'For
Steve Dorner, the unimaginable depths of this mysterious black hole in
space held a problem he had to solve! But his struggles to find the answer
proved that - Only Time Will Tell.'
"The Black Arts," Weird Fantasy #14, July - August 1950, 7pgs.
Script: Harry Harrison(?). Pencils: Harry Harrison. Inks: Wally Wood.
Unsigned. 'Secrets stolen from the ages of darkness ... Hints of terror
from the musty pages of the devil's own book ... Dreams of power not meant
for mortals are concealed in this loathsome volume! Cursed be the man who
experiments with - The Black Arts.' The splash page of the story shows the
book to be H.P. Lovecraft's Necronomicon.