Talk:Weird Science (comics)

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'Influences'

. . .is a nice way of saying "blatant plagiarism". I recognized Mr. Lupescu's Martian guise by the second page, though I hadn't read the original story in years (until a few minutes ago, when I confirmed my suspicion). Does the source say, or did Gaines and Feldstein claim, that the stories were "entirely new"? Because that's, um, not true. 71.248.115.187 (talk) 05:03, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

They never claimed the stories were entirely new. Its well documented in numerous sources that EC came up with their stories when Gaines would read numerous pulps due to his insomnia and the next day would use them as "springboards" to assist Feldstein in coming up with a plot for a story for him to write that day. The ideal was to use the springboard to come up with an entirely new story, which they often did, but there were instances (most notably the infamous "Home to Stay" story in Weird Fantasy) where the final result didn't stray that much from the original story. In fact while Home to Stay was the first time they were caught, it was the third time they blatantly took a Ray Bradbury Story (the other two being "A Strange Undertaking" from Haunt of Fear 6, taken from Bradbury's "The Handler" and "What the Dog Dragged In" from Vault of Horror 22, taken from Bradbury's "The Emissary". "Heads Up" from Crime SuspenStories 4 ("The Jar") and "A Lesson In Anatomy" from Weird Fantasy 12 ("The Man Upstairs") are two examples of better jobs at forming new stories out of obvious Bradbury springboards. Quiddity99 (talk) 05:20, 10 January 2010 (UTC)Quiddity99