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Issue: Weird Fantasy #20
Publication Date: July 1953
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Issues: #20 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
Indicia Frequency: Bimonthly
Content Items: 13 (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
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, science fiction
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In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #20 published August 1953
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #6/1992 published January 1992
as Science Fiction spesial [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #20 published July 1997
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Pages: 1
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No Mad!

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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
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...For Us the Living

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: While being investigated the the FBI, a scientist claims that in the alternate Earth he lived in, Abraham Lincoln survived the assassination and would go on to unite the world in global peace. He built a time machine so he could go back and meet Lincoln in 1865. His presence inadvertently causes the assassination to occur, and the world then becomes the world of the current day.
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In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #20 published July 1997
as ...For Us the Living [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 ...For Us the Living [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Script credit from The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #[18] - The Million Year Picnic and Other Stories.

Based on the story "Bring the Jubilee" by Ward Moore.
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I, Rocket

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): A Rocketship (narrator); Captain Lamb; Hillary; Skip; Ayres (crew member, Navigator, death); Conrad (crew member, death); Slop (ship's cook, death); Larion (villain, death); Belloc (villain, death)
Synopsis: A very expensive new rocketship, once built for war and now rusting away, relates the story of her glory with Captain Lamb in charge, but also of treachery aboard ship, which the rocket secretly dealt with.
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In Content Item: FlagTomorrow Midnight #U2142 published June 1966
as I, Rocket [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Ray Bradbury Chronicles #1 published July 1992
as I, Rocket [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #20 published July 1997
as I, Rocket [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #3 published March 2013
as I, Rocket [Story on Interior Page(s)]black and white reprint
In Content Item: FlagGespenster Geschichten #1025 published ?
as Ich, die Rakete [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 7
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Discovery!

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A struggling inventor invents a special type of shaving soap that will revolutionize shaving. When he realizes it actually hardens into a concrete like substance, his nagging wife ridicules him. He then realizes the soap will have a use after all, when he applies it to his wife's mouth to shut her up.
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[untitled]

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Feature(s): Educational Comics
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[untitled]

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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters from: "name withheld by request," C. Ross Chamberlain, Joe and Tony Mancini and Dick Mazzaglia, Ernest Newsum, Bobby Stewart, Michael Labowitch, Peter Fisher, Larry Stark, Kaye Campbell, Paul O. Parrington, Wamial Dundle, Ray Ford, James Zamichieli, Leonard Baird, Rod Friedman, H.D. Wheale, John C. Finley, William Reith, Russel Gillam, I.B. Kenny, and Ray Bradbury.
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...Conquers All!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): invasion ship crew members [unnamed Chief; unnamed doctor; Phebe; Cuno; Mara; Xano; others unnamed] (villains)
Synopsis: As a prelude to an invasion of the Earth, an infiltration rocket from a far distant world is sent to the Earth to examine, estimate, judge and report back to their leaders. But when the crew discovers something not found on their world....emotions....they decide to stay on Earth.
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In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #20 published July 1997
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Corrected script credits and letterer credit by Craig Delich.
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The Automaton

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: A man who lives in a communist style world, tries to escape his life by committing suicide. But everytime he does, the doctors bring him back to life. This is because he is State Property and is not allowed to escape. He finally decides to leap into molten slag to completely destroy his body so he can't be revived. But the slag he melted in is used to build a robot that now has his consciousness.
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In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #20 published July 1997
as The Automaton [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Anti communist story.
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Silk Finish Enlargements

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Hollywood Film Studios
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New! 1953 "Space Commander"

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Subject Matter
Feature(s): Consumers Mart
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They Mailed This Coupon

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