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Issue: Weird Fantasy #17
Publication Date: January 1953
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Issues: #17 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: 9 (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
Format Notes:  
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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 #17 published February 1953
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #3/1990 published January 1990
as Science fiction spesial [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #2 [Direct] published November 1990
as Weird Fantasy #17 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #17 published October 1996
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: Say, where is everyone going?
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: House ad for Mad #3.
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In the Beginning...

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: It began with nothing more than a routine flight...
Synopsis: In the future a space crew go through a time rift and land on a prehistoric twin Earth. They are attacked by some ape men. They capture three and manage to return to their own time period. The ape men are put in a cage and are studied by experts. When one of the ape men falls ill (a female), a scientist warns that if it isn't returned to the past, it could effect the whole evolution of man. The captain refuses to risk looking for the time rift again, and its decided to let the ape man die. This causes the human race in the present to vanish and evolution to begin anew.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #2 [Direct] published November 1990
as In the Beginning... [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #17 published October 1996
as In The Beginning... [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Cover story.
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Ahead of the Game!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Ned Hurbson (high school teacher, cameo, death); Mrs Hurbson; Dan (Police Lieutenant, death); Doc Winkler (coroner); Drake (the Lieutenant's assistant); Quigley (Policeman, mention only); (Martin (Police traffic control, mention only); Rose Miller (comptometer operator, mention only, death); Herman Thornton (writer, mention only, death); Lawrence Morgan (hospital intern, mention only, death); Frederick Phillips (civil engineer, mention only, death); Gloria Field (fashion designer, mention only, death); Professor Emile Shorham (villain, electrical brain wave theorist)
First Line: The squeal of the brakes and the fading wait of the siren...
Synopsis: The Police are baffled by a series of six strange deaths in which each victim was beheaded, and none of the victims seem to have any connection to one another. When Drake tells the Lieutenant that similar murders (seven in each case) had also occurred in St. Louis and Chicago, the Lieutenant finds a connection between all of the crimes and a Professor Shorham, who lectures scientists on his invention of a mechanical brain, a discovery that results in the Lieutenant becoming the mad Professor's 7th victim in the city!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #2 [Direct] published November 1990
as Ahead of the Game! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #17 published October 1996
as Ahead of the Game! [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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The Space Pirate

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: An interplanetary private eye known as Ace O' Space is tracking down the beautiful space pirate the Silver Cockerspaniel. When he gets captured and taken aboard her ship, he secretly dumps corn kernels outside of the ship which is heated into popcorn for the Space Rangers to follow.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.6
Disclose Notes: Letters from Robert Hohnstock, Morris Hyman, Terry Lyon, Roger Schenkman, James Morgan, George Decker, and Ed Levine.
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[untitled]

Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.4
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The Aliens

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: The ship was suddenly filled with a cold light...
Synopsis: A group of aliens, heading towards the Earth to warn them and teach them about atomic power that Earthlings had recently discovered, are shocked to see the planet explode. They land on a fragment of the Earth remaining to see what they can learn about this civilization. They find a tattered copy of this particular issue of Weird Fantasy in the wreckage and try to piece together what happened by reading the comic. The story ends with them seeing a picture of themselves looking at the comic book with a picture of themselves looking at the comic book... ad infinitum.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #2 [Direct] published November 1990
as The Aliens [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #17 published October 1996
as The Aliens [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #3 published March 2013
as The Aliens [Story on Interior Page(s)]Reprinted in black and white.
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Many panels show the aliens discovering and reading through a copy of Weird Fantasy #17.....this issue, and this story in particular!
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There Will Come Soft Rains...

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: The sun came out from behind the rain.
Synopsis: This story basically serves as a allegory for human's ethical progress failing to keep pace with his technological progress. It describes an automatic house that continues to function long after the people that once lived there have been reduced to dust stains on the wall by nuclear holocaust.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTomorrow Midnight #U2142 published June 1966
as There Will Come Soft Rains... [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss album #1 published November 1989
as Et mykt regn skal falle [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #2 [Direct] published November 1990
as There Will Come Soft Rains... [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Ray Bradbury Chronicles #3 published November 1992
as There Will Come Soft Rains [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #17 published October 1996
as There Will Come Soft Rains... [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: An adaptation of a Ray Bradbury's Martian story first published in the May 6, 1950 issue of Collier's Weekly.

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