Influences and Adaptations
As with the other EC comics edited by Feldstein, the stories in this comic were primarily based on Gaines reading a large number of science fiction stories and using them to develop "springboards" from which he and Feldstein could launch new stories. Specific story influences that have been identified include the following:
- "Fair Trade" (issue 23) - Stephen Vincent Benét's "By the Waters of Babylon"
- "Adaptability" (issue 27) - Robert A. Heinlein's Universe
- "The Inferiors" (issue 28) - Murray Leinster's "The Lost Race"
Other stories were authorized adaptations, sometimes with the active participation of the original author. Otto Binder adapted some stories that he and his brother Earl had published in the 1940s. This included "The Teacher From Mars" (#24) and the three-part Adam Link series that appeared in issues 27 through 29.
"The Flying Machine" (#23) and "A Sound of Thunder" (#25) were official adaptations of short stories by Ray Bradbury.
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