JACK DAVIS PAYS OFF "THE DEBT"

Original artwork posted at
 BLACK 'N' WHITE AND RED ALL OVER.
Story by Carl Wessler. Art by Jack Davis.
From IMPACT #3, EC Comics, 1955.

 

FULFILLMENT - The Mystery Revealed

Last post I theorized a possible story from analyzing the cover of INCREDIBLE SCIENCE FICTION # 31, from EC Comics, 1955. Upon re-reading the story, I believe I may have jumped to my humorous conclusions a bit hastily. There is more going on here than meets the eye in that fascinating Jack Davis cover. Two readers also offered their own ingenius interpretations, leaving no other recourse but to post the original story and see how we compare. Fortunately, there are only winners here.

Written by Jack Oleck, and drawn by Bernie Krigstein, here is

FULFILLMENT!

"Ra, Ra, Ra!!"

WHAT'S REALLLY GOING ON IN THE COVER

A classic from EC comics and artist Jack Davis. From 1955.

What's really going on in this cover  --

Imagine life ten years from now. A man and wife take a vacation to Venus. The husband thinks that it would be the perfect time to finally get rid of his 'pain in the neck'. With one quick, clean shot. He climbs out of the spaceship and, as his wife is admiring the flora, he lifts his rifle and takes aim.

Suddenly, out of the brush comes an enraged Venusian bull space-elephant ! Just in the nick of time, the wife leaps out of the way of the Venusian bull space-elephant, and the crosshairs of hubby's hunting rifle.

Stupid space-elephants.