Barely old enough to drink when he joined the EC Comics stable, Al Williamson may have been the new kid on the block, but a lifetime of studying such classic adventure cartoonists as Alex Raymond (Flash Gordon) and Hal Foster (Prince Valiant) had made him a kid to reckon with ? as he proved again and again in the stories he created for EC?s legendary ?New Trend? comics, in particular Weird Science and Weird Fantasy.