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Issue: Weird Fantasy #16
Publication Date: November 1952
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Issues: #16 of 17 Issues
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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
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Content Items: 7 (5 stories, 1 cover)
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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
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, science fiction
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #16 published December 1952
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagEC Portfolio #6 published January 1977
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #16 published July 1996
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Mass Meeting!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: The 'Uranium Mining Company's' martian refineries lay like some petrified monster...
Synopsis: A uranium mine owner owns a mining plant on Mars but has tapped out all the uranium on that planet. When he finds out that Venus is rich in Uranium, he decides to mine it from that planet and then teleport it to his mining plant on Mars. The problem is, the removal of uranium from Venus causes its mass to decrease while adding all that uranium to Mars causes its mass to increase. This causes the two planets to leave their respective orbits and ultimately crash into the Earth destroying it.
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In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #16 published July 1996
as Mass Meeting! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.
Cover story. Although the aliens (who look radically different in the interior art) aren't watching the Earth getting destroyed live on a telescreen, but are teaching it in a history classroom to students.
Loosely based on "Tricky Tonnage" by Malcolm Jameson.
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Skeleton Key!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Dr. Donald Purcell (archaeologist); Professor Godfrey Clinton; Dr. Seymour Karnes (death); Bill Wentworth (physicist)
First Line: My name is Doctor Donald Purcell!
Synopsis: Some archaeologists are conducting a dig and discovered what they believe is the first complete fossilized skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus Rex. What puzzles them is the discovery of a human skull with those remains. It turns out one of their fellow archaeologists took a break from digging to visit a nearby friend who had invented a time machine. The two had tested it by going back into the prehistoric age and he got eaten by a Tyrannosaurus Rex. The same one that they were excavating!
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In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #16 published July 1996
as Skeleton Key! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #3 published March 2013
as Skeleton Key! [Story on Interior Page(s)]black and white reprint
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.
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Mr. Halley's Comet

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: The head of a TV studio is looking for a big gimmick to air on his stations. Since its 1987, it was time for Halley's Comet to pass Earth's orbit. He decides to send crews out into space with cameras to film the comet approaching Earth for the first time in 70 years and broadcast it live. The problem is, a commercial has run too long on the station and they missed it.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.
The future date of 1987 is slightly off since Halley's Comet passed the Earth in 1986.
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters from R.D., Jack Bale, Calvin Jackemeyer, Arthur Flint, Jack Sayles, and Kalline Jeroin.
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What He Saw!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Martin; two beautiful girls (apparitions); Jean (Martin's wife, apparition); Czuk (villain); Trark (villain)
First Line: Martin had been marooned on the barren lifeless planetoid...
Synopsis: Martin had been marooned on a barren lifeless planetoid for four months when a beautiful woman appears on the scene. When she disappears, another appears....and then vanishes. But when Martin's wife appears, he can't believe she is real or what in the world is going on.....is he mad or what?
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In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #16 published July 1996
as What He Saw! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Corrected script credits and letterer credit by Craig Delich.
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The Green Thing!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: Outside the barn, the first grey streaks of dawn...
Synopsis: A spaceship crashes near a farm and a green slime like object comes out and approaches the farmer, his son, and a farmhand. It enters the body of a dog causing it to turn green. When the dog attacks the son, the farmer has no choice but to shoot it. This causes the lifeform to enter a mare and the same thing occurs. When the alien realizes that the green colouring gives it away, it makes the family colorblind. Not knowing which one of the family has been infected, the son uses a red filter on his camera and photographs them. This exposes the daughter as the host.
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In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #16 published July 1996
as The Green Thing! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.
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