#22

Synopsis

Walter surveys a little white silent town on the edge of a dead Martian sea, wondering what happened to all of its inhabitants. He suddenly hears a phone ringing, but he is too late to answer it. After this happens twice, he succeeds in answering a phone and finds a Miss Selsor on the other end, and he meets her, only to find that she is fat and ugly. Knowing that she is the only woman alive and he is the only man, he does the only thing he can: he goes back to the bachelor life!

Reprinted in

• Haunt of Fear #5
• Weird Fantasy #22
• Iskalde Grøss #7/1991
• The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #8— Reprinted in black and white.
• The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #9— Reprinted in black and white.
• The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #15— Reprinted in black and white.
• Weird Fantasy #4
• The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #21— Reprinted in black and white.
• Planète rouge #[nn]— N&B [B&W]
• Fantástico #56— page 1 panel 1 repurposed as cover art
• Home to Stay! The Complete EC Ray Bradbury Stories #[nn]

Credits

Script

Ray Bradbury, Al Feldstein

Pencils

Joe Orlando, Reed Crandall, Jack Kamen, Bernie Krigstein

Inks

Joe Orlando, Reed Crandall, Jack Kamen, Bernie Krigstein

Colours

Marie Severin

Letters

Jim Wroten

Editor

Al Feldstein

Adaptation

Al Feldstein

Co-plot

Bill Gaines

Co-plot and script

Al Feldstein

Co-plot, script

Al Feldstein

Managing editor

Bill Gaines