EC Comics featured many stories by Ray Bradbury, and we’d like to share them with you. Below the story featured in today’s gallery, you will find a list of Ray Bradbury stories and the EC Comics issues where they appeared. We believe we’ve compiled a definitive guide. If you have additions or corrections, we would love to hear from you.
Your Guide to Ray Bradbury in EC Comics
Collected in “Tomorrow Midnight“
Punishment Without Crime (Kamen) – Weird Science #21
I, Rocket (Williamson) – Weird Fantasy #20
King of the Grey Spaces (Severin & Elder) – Weird Fantasy #19
The One Who Waits (Williamson) – Weird Science #19
The Long Years (Orlando) – Weird Science #17
There Will Come Soft Rains (Wood) – Weird Fantasy #17
Mars Is Heaven! (Wood) – Weird Science #18
Outcast of the Stars (Orlando) – Weird Science #22
Collected in “The Autumn People“
There Was an Old Woman (Ingels) – Tales from the Crypt #34
The Screaming Woman (Kamen) – Crime SuspensStories #15
Touch and Go! (Craig) – Crime SuspensStories #17
The Small Assassin (Evans) – Shock SuspenStories #7
The Handler (Ingels) – Tales from the Crypt #36
The Lake (Orlando) – Vault of Horror #31
The Coffin (Davis) – Haunt of Fear #16
Let’s Play ‘Poison’ (Davis) – Vault of Horror #29
Miscellaneous
Home To Stay (Wood) (Based on “Kaleidoscope” & “Rocket Man”) – Weird Fantasy #13
The October Game (Kamen) – Shock SuspenStories #9
The Black Ferris (Davis) – Haunt of Fear #18
What the Dog Dragged In (Kamen) (Based on “The Emissary”) – Vault of Horror #22
Sound of Thunder (Williamson, Torres, Krenkel) – Weird Science Fantasy #25 (reprint = Weird Science-Fantasy #3)
Zero Hour (Kamen) – Weird Fantasy #18
Million Year Picnic (Severin, Elder) – Weird Fantasy #21
The Silent Towns (Crandall) – Weird Fantasy #22
The Flying Machine (Krigstein) – Weird Science Fantasy #23 (reprint = Weird Science-Fantasy #1)
Surprise Package (Kamen) (Based on “Changeling”) – Weird Science #20
Mad Journey (Williamson, Frazetta, Krenkel) (Based on “The Earthmen”) – Weird Fantasy #14
Readers have submitted an additional four uncredited stories for this list:
A Lesson in Anatomy (Kamen) (based on The Man Upstairs) – Weird Fantasy #12
A Strange Undertaking (Ingels) (based on The Handler) – Haunt of Fear #6
The Jellyfish (Ingels) (based on Skeleton) – Vault of Horror #19
Just Desserts (based on The Smiling People) – Shock SuspenStories #3
Mars Will Send No More 
You’ve confused THE COFFIN, a Bradbury story illustrated by Jack Davis from the SECOND Haunt Of Fear #16, with Killer In The Coffin, a NON-Bradbury story illustrated by Ingels in the first HoF #16 a couple of years earlier
There are 31 EC comic stories based on 31 Bradbury stories (seven of them uncredited in six stories, including Kaleidoscope and Rocket Man being combined as Home To Stay – for which Bradbury was retroactively paid – and EC’s first version of The Handler under the title A Strange Undertaking)
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Thank you, Manny, for setting the record straight! I did have those two coffin-related titles confused.
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a revised EC/Bradbury guide [TM] = Tomorrow Midnight, [AP] – Autumn People:
The Long Years! (Orlando) (aka Dwellers In Silence)– Weird Science #17 [TM]
Mars Is Heaven! (Wood) (later revised by Bradbury as The Third Expedition) – Weird Science #18 [TM]
The One Who Waits (Williamson) – Weird Science #19 [TM]
Surprise Package (Kamen) (based on “Changeling”) – Weird Science #20
Punishment Without Crime (Kamen) – Weird Science #21 [TM]
Outcast of the Stars (Orlando) (aka The Rocket) – Weird Science #22 [TM]
Mad Journey (Williamson, Frazetta, Krenkel) (based on “The Earth Men”) – Weird Fantasy #14 (2nd)
There Will Come Soft Rains (Wood) – Weird Fantasy #17 (2nd) [TM]
Zero Hour (Kamen) – Weird Fantasy #18
King of the Grey Spaces (Severin & Elder) (aka R IS For Rocket) – Weird Fantasy #19 [TM]
I, Rocket (Williamson) – Weird Fantasy #20 [TM]
Million-Year Picnic (Severin, Elder) (aka The Long Weekend)– Weird Fantasy #21
The Silent Towns (Crandall) – Weird Fantasy #22
The Flying Machine (Krigstein) – Weird Science Fantasy #23
A Sound of Thunder (Williamson, Torres, Krenkel) – Weird Science Fantasy #25
There Was an Old Woman (Ingels) – Tales from the Crypt #34 [AP]
The Handler (Ingels) – Tales from the Crypt #36 [AP]
The Coffin (Davis) (based on Wake For The Living) – Haunt of Fear #16 (2nd) [AP]
The Black Ferris (Davis) – Haunt of Fear #18
Let’s Play ‘Poison’ (Davis) – Vault of Horror #29 [AP]
The Lake (Orlando) – Vault of Horror #31 [AP]
The Screaming Woman (Kamen) – Crime SuspensStories #15 [AP]
Touch and Go! (Craig) (aka The Fruit At The Bottom Of The Bowl) – Crime SuspensStories #17 [AP]
The Small Assassin (Evans) – Shock SuspenStories #7 [AP]
The October Game (Kamen) – Shock SuspenStories #9
and UNCREDITED:
A Lesson In Anatomy (Kamen) (based on The Man Upstairs) Weird Fantasy #12
A Strange Undertaking (Ingels) (1st EC version based on The Handler) – Haunt Of Fear #6
The Jellyfish (based on Skeleton) – Vault of Horror #19
What the Dog Dragged In (Kamen) (based on The Emissary) – Vault of Horror #22
Just Desserts (based on The Smiling People) – Shock SuspenStories #3
Home To Stay (Wood) (based on Kaleidoscope & The Rocket Man) – Weird Fantasy #13
(Originally uncredited, first work to pay Bradbury for story source[s])
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It looks like your list has four that weren’t on mine, so thank you for that, Manny, and also for clarifying several of the original story titles the EC stories were based on. I’ll be working on updating all the EC/Bradbury posts on this blog accordingly.
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Manny, According to the EC Comics listings on MyComicShop, “A Strange Undertaking” appeared in Haunt of Fear #6, not #4. Just thought you’d want to know, for your records. I’ve updated your comment so the correct issue number now appears. Thank you for your help with this list!
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YOU’RE CORRECT, my hand slipped in typing, because I have #6 in my notes
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Awesome. I updated all the Bradbury/EC posts here last night based on your additions. Thank you for helping complete the listings!
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