Wallace Wood: Against the Grain, part 25 Hours were spent on research. EC’s assistant editor Jerry De Fuccio, who handled much of the research for Kurtzman, recalled, “I knew I was a real veteran when I was given a cast iron model of a Mauser to bring to Wally’s house in Forest Hills. I was on a crowded subway platform; it fell out of the paper bag, and I picked it up very casually.” For “Gettysburg” (Frontline Combat 2) Wood did on-location research: “I went to Gettysburg, and I came back and started to work on the story.” There was a study of Victorian architecture for “Mars Is Heaven” (Weird Science 18): “I wanted to have that period look of that time, you know, the decorating... I did a lot of research for ‘There Will Come Soft Rains’ (Weird Fantasy 17, 1953), everything that looked remotely like futuristic settings. I probably worked harder on that story than anything I ever did.”  ¶ 9:39 AM