Weird Fantasy Vol 1 17 PR (0.5) (1953)

• 1 In the Beginning... Script: Bill Gaines +
  In the future a space crew go through a time rift and land on a prehistoric twin Earth. They are attacked by some ape men. They capture three and manage to return to their own time period. The ape men are put in a cage and are studied by experts. When one of the ape men falls ill (a female), a scientist warns that if it isn't returned to the past, it could effect the whole evolution of man. The captain refuses to risk looking for the time rift again, and its decided to let the ape man die. This causes the human race in the present to vanish and evolution to begin anew.
• 2 Ahead of the Game! Script: Bill Gaines +
  The Police are baffled by a series of six strange deaths in which each victim was beheaded, and none of the victims seem to have any connection to one another. When Drake tells the Lieutenant that similar murders (seven in each case) had also occurred in St. Louis and Chicago, the Lieutenant finds a connection between all of the crimes and a Professor Shorham, who lectures scientists on his invention of a mechanical brain, a discovery that results in the Lieutenant becoming the mad Professor's 7th victim in the city!
• 3 The Space Pirate Script: Jerry De Fuccio +
  An interplanetary private eye known as Ace O' Space is tracking down the beautiful space pirate the Silver Cockerspaniel. When he gets captured and taken aboard her ship, he secretly dumps corn kernels outside of the ship which is heated into popcorn for the Space Rangers to follow.
• 4 The Aliens Script: Bill Gaines +
  A group of aliens, heading towards the Earth to warn them and teach them about atomic power that Earthlings had recently discovered, are shocked to see the planet explode. They land on a fragment of the Earth remaining to see what they can learn about this civilization. They find a tattered copy of this particular issue of Weird Fantasy in the wreckage and try to piece together what happened by reading the comic. The story ends with them seeing a picture of themselves looking at the comic book with a picture of themselves looking at the comic book... ad infinitum.
• 5 There Will Come Soft Rains... Script: Ray Bradbury +
  This story basically serves as a allegory for human's ethical progress failing to keep pace with his technological progress. It describes an automatic house that continues to function long after the people that once lived there have been reduced to dust stains on the wall by nuclear holocaust.

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