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Issue: Weird Science #19
Publication Date: May 1953
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Issues: #19 of 18 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagEC
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Indicia Publisher: Fables 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: 9 (5 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Cover, Front
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
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In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #19 published June 1953
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #2/1992 published January 1992
as Science Fiction spesial [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #19 published March 1997
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagWally Wood: Strange Worlds of Science Fiction #[nn] published January 2012
as Cosmic Cover Collection [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Ray Bradbury

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ? (photograph)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: biography
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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The Precious Years

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: Sunlight streaked through the transparent metal wall...
Synopsis: In the year 4152, Martin is jaded with life and wants to die. By this time period, injections keep people indefinitely alive preserved in their twenty something years. Martin is 550 years old and can't bare life anymore. He meets a beautiful woman named Jean who has been alive for centuries like him and is jaded with existence too. They begin to fall in love and are then sent to a distant colony planet of Earth devoid of any more injections to live out the rest of their natural lives. This gives Martin the spark of life again.
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In Content Item: FlagTales of the Incredible #U2140 published March 1965
as The Precious Years [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #5/1989 published January 1989
as For mye av det gode [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #19 published March 1997
as The Precious Years [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 The Precious Years [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #4 published September 2008
as Gli anni preziosi [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.
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The One Who Waits

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): A Soul Well (host); Regent (death); Jones (death); Captain Sessions (death); Captain Samuel Mathews (death); William Spaulding (death); Forrest Cole (death); John Summers (death)
First Line: I live in a well.
Synopsis: A rocket full of Earthlings land on Mars. They notice a strange "Soul Well". It contains a formless entity that has the ability to possess living things and begins to take over the crew one by one. The crew members fight back by killing themselves to stop from being completely taken over. When the entire crew dies, the entity returns to the well, but then notices another Earth ship approaching....
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In Content Item: FlagTomorrow Midnight #U2142 published June 1966
as The One Who Waits [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #19 published March 1997
as The One Who Waits [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #4 published September 2008
as Colui che attende [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #3 published March 2013
as The One Who Waits [Story on Interior Page(s)]black and white reprint
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Bouillion Cotillion

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Character(s): Carver De Waterfront
Synopsis: A group of soup connoisseurs want to spice up the special soup they are all going to eat together. Unbeknownst to each other, each connoisseur administers their own flavourings to the soup when the chef isn't looking. Ultimately all of these special flavourings poisons the soup and kills them all when they consume 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.
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters from Ronald Voight, David Cressman, Wiley Gunter, Mrs. Thomas Fisher, David S. Spiel, Dave Foley, Fred Lamb, Jean Freeman, Ruth Ohnsman, Colin B. Pitblado, Douglas Wilson, Jeff Schneider, and Lee J. Brezinski.
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Right On the Button!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): unnamed Chief; Della (Chief's secretary); Lon (Della's husband, death)
First Line: It was an invasion...
Synopsis: An invasion to the planet Mars has occurred by aliens, who look exactly like Martians. The problem is: how can anyone tell the difference between them and the people of Mars? Della accidentally discovers the difference when she notices on her wedding night that her husband has a navel. You see the Martians hatch from eggs while the Earthlings are born live. She reluctantly murders her husband while he is asleep for the good of her planet.
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In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #19 published March 1997
as Right on the Button! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #4 published September 2008
as Una piccola differenza [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Used in "Seduction if the Innocent" (page 6, panels 1-5).

Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.
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Keyed Up!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: The silence.
Synopsis: Guernsey hates Benson and vows that when they get back to Earth, he will be held accountable. Why? Because he got drunk and accidentally pulled a lever that killed the whole crew when they were outside the ship working. When a meteor strikes the ship, Guernsey goes outside to check for damage. Benson locks Guernsey out leaving him to die. Guernsey's rotting corpse is stuck just outside the window almost tauntingly. Benson can't stand it and goes outside to remove the body, but Guernseys corpse accidentally takes the door mechanism with him leaving Benson trapped outside the ship doomed to die.
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In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #3/1990 published January 1990
as Til siste åndedrag! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #19 published March 1997
as Keyed Up! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #4 published September 2008
as Chiuso fuori! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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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.

Loosely based on "U-Turn" by Duncan Munro.

Cover story.
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Al Williamson

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: EC Artist of the Issue

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