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Issue: Weird Fantasy #18
Publication Date: March 1953
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Issues: #18 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: 8 (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 #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): ?
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
First Line: It was a summer night in 2026.
Synopsis: Ron and his dad are talking about Ron's desire to become a space pilot. While they talk, a space ship lands. When a weird alien alights from the ship, Ron's dad kills it with a blaster. After Ron graduates and becomes a pilot, he is tasked with investigating the planet where the ship originated from. He comes to an Earth-like world that rotates in the opposite direction as Earth. This causes time to move backward. While he is doing research he develops sores on his body that begin to mutate him. He returns to Earth and comes out of his ship only to be killed by his dad. He was the alien!
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)
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)
First Line: It was an interesting that the fury and bustle occurred only among the younger children.
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. Eventually the kids inadvertently help the Martians invade the Earth with the children leading the way for the Martians to destroy all the adults. Mrs. Morris and her husband Henry hide in their attic but are found by Mink and her "friends".
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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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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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The Ashtray

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, science fiction
First Line: The graying light was even older by the time it struggled...
Synopsis: Professor Quagmire Bog lives in his mountaintop lab in Hoboken. He throws all of his refuse into an ash tray that he never empties. Eventually all the junk in the ash tray form an atomic pile and blow the mountain to oblivion.
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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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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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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)
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)
First Line: He could see the space station now...
Synopsis: David Todd and Lynn Ardsley plot her husband's murder, while David and Lawrence are on a mission to Mars to investigate the planet's landscape and possible life forms. After David kills Lawrence, he radios the space station and tells them he died of a mysterious virus. When David returns to the space station he finds it abandoned. Because it's feared he got this virus too, David is exiled to live the rest of his life on that space station never to return to Earth.
Reprinting
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)]Reprinted in black and white.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Judgment Day!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Tarlton
First Line: The man roared down from the night sky.
Synopsis: An astronaut from Earth named Tarlton visits a planet populated by orange and blue robots who hope to join the Galactic Republic. As he tours the planet, he realizes that blue robots are treated horribly and given fewer rights than the orange robots, despite the fact that they are identical except for the color of their exterior. Tarlton decides that because of this, the planet will not be allowed in the Galactic Republic. In the final panel Tarlton removes his helmet, revealing that he is black.
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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Pages: 7

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