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Issue: Weird Fantasy #18
Publication Date: March 1953
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Issues: #18 of 17 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagEC
Brand: EC An Entertaining ComicView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: I. C. Publishing Co., Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 8 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Al Feldstein
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Al Williamson
Inker(s): Al Feldstein; Roy Krenkel
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, science fiction
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #18 published April 1953
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #18 published January 1997
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): John Severin; Harvey Kurtzman
Inker(s): John Severin; Harvey Kurtzman
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: Did yuh grab it, Jesse?
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: House ad for Mad #4.
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Counter-Clockwise

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Samuel Travis; Ronald Travis
Synopsis: Ron's father is dismayed when he learns that his son wants to secure at a job at the Rocket-Port, not just to service rockets, but to fly them. He cautions his son that pilots must retire at age 26, but while they talk, Ron's dad sights a space ship that is not of earthly origin. Together they go to the landing sight, armed with a blaster. When a weird alien being alights from the ship, they kill it and report to the authorities, and mention that the alien's ship could be used to further the Earth's own space travel program.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #2/1992 published January 1992
as Ringen sluttet [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #3 published January 1992
as Counter-Clockwise [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #18 published January 1997
as Counter-Clockwise [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Zero Hour

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Ray Bradbury; Albert B. Feldstein (adaptation)
Penciller(s): Jack Kamen [as Kamen] (signed)
Inker(s): Jack Kamen [as Kamen] (signed)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Mary Morris; Mink Morris (daughter of Mary Morris); Henry Morris (Mary's husband); Joseph Conners; Anna; Peggy Ann; Helen (Mary's friend in New York); Tim (Helen's son); Drill (villain, a Martian)
Synopsis: Mrs. Morris, at first, thinks nothing of her daughter and a friend playing their game of "invasion". But when Mink starts telling of a Martian named Drill, who is the fore-runner of a Martian invasion of Earth, and Mary discovers that kids of her friends in other parts of the country are playing the same game, she wonders if this is for real.
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In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #3 published January 1992
as Zero Hour [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagRay Bradbury Comics Special Edition #1 published January 1993
as Zero Hour [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #18 published January 1997
as Zero Hour [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 7
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The Ashtray

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
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In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #3 published January 1992
as The Ashtray [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Feldstein
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Cosmic Correspondence
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters from W. Dundle, Donald Trehlin, Jack Promo, James McCawley, Jr., Bobby Stewart, E. Shute, Phil Flynn, Colin Michael Orgill, Paul Campana, Jr., Peggy Melanson, and Arne Eastman.
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Homesick!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Feldstein
Penciller(s): Al Williamson (signed); Roy Krenkel (on technological details)
Inker(s): Al Williamson (signed); Roy Krenkel (on technological details)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Colonel Lawrence Ardsley (death); General Minorly (Medical doctor); Colonel David Todd (villain); Lynn Ardsley (villain, Lawrence's wife)
Synopsis: David Todd and Lynn Ardsley plot her husband's murder, while David and Lawrence are on a misson to Mars to investigate the planet's landscape and possible life forms. The crime is committed, but with unexpected consequences for David!
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In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #3 [1988] published January 1988
as Hjemlengsel! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #3 published January 1992
as Homesick! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #18 published January 1997
as Homesick! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #3 published March 2013
as Homesick! [Story on Interior Page(s)]black and white reprint
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Judgment Day!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Feldstein
Penciller(s): Joe Orlando
Inker(s): Joe Orlando
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Tarlton
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIncredible Science Fiction #33 published January 1956
as Judgment Day! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagTales of the Incredible #U2140 published March 1965
as Judgment Day [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Amazing World of DC Comics #6 published May 1975
as Judgment Day! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #3 [1988] published January 1988
as Dommedag! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #3 published January 1992
as Judgment Day! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #18 published January 1997
as Judgment Day! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFoul Play! The Art and Artists of the Notorious E.C. Comics! #[nn] published January 2005
as Judgement Day! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7

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