#17

Synopsis

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.

Reprinted in

• Tomorrow Midnight #U2142
• The Ray Bradbury Chronicles #3
• Weird Fantasy #17
• Iskalde Grøss #3/1990
• Iskalde Grøss album #1
• Weird Science #2
• Weird Fantasy #17
• The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #3— Reprinted in black and white.
• EC Classics #5
• The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #9— Reprinted in black and white.
• Weird Fantasy #3
• The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #18— Reprinted in black and white.
• Planète rouge #[nn]— N&B [B&W]
• Science Fiction - Weird Fantasy #[nn]
• Choke Gasp! The Best of 75 Years of EC Comics #[nn]
• Home to Stay! The Complete EC Ray Bradbury Stories #[nn]
• Comic Speedline #41
• Artisan Edition #[16]
• The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #38— Reprinted in black and white.

Credits

Script

Jerry De Fuccio, Frank Lee

Pencils

Al Feldstein, Wally Wood, Joe Orlando, Bill Elder, Al Williamson, Roy Krenkel

Inks

Al Feldstein, Wally Wood, Joe Orlando, Bill Elder, Al Williamson, Roy Krenkel

Colours

Marie Severin

Letters

Jim Wroten

Editor

Al Feldstein

Adaptation

Al Feldstein

Co-plot

Bill Gaines

Co-plot, script

Al Feldstein

Managing editor

Bill Gaines

Original author

Ray Bradbury