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Issue: Weird Science #20
Publication Date: July 1953
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Issues: #20 of 18 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagEC
Brand: EC An Entertaining ComicView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Fables Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume:
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 6 (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
Original Artwork
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: Alone in space with fifty frozen dolls...
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #20 published August 1953
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #20 published June 1997
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagNemi #9 published January 2004
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #4 published September 2008
as In questo volume: Gli adattamenti delle storie di Ray Bradbury, maestro della science-fiction americana! [Illustration on Cover, Front]original cover
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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The Loathsome!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: This is the story of a little girl with no name.
Synopsis: A doctor sends a deformed mutant child that was the product of her father's exposure to atomic radiation to be brought up in an orphanage. The women of the orphanage dislike her because she displays poor behavior. That evening the younger nurse sees the girl on the grounds stuffing notes into tree hollows. The following evening they confront the child demanding the note and the girl flees from them. She climbs up a tree branch, loses her grip and falls onto a spiked fence. As the note slips from the dying child, the older woman picks it up. It says "To whoever finds this note - I love you."
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagNacht der vampiers #[nn] published January 1973
as Ontsnapt uit het gesticht [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagVault of Horror #2 [Direct Edition] published November 1991
as The Loathsome! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #20 published June 1997
as The Loathsome! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #4 published September 2008
as Abominevole! [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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Surprise Package

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Leonard Hill (mention only); robotic Leonard Hill (death); Martha (villain, death)
First Line: By eight o'clock she had placed the cigarettes...
Synopsis: Martha was very suspicious of Leonard. She had this eerie feeling that something was different about him and she wondered if there were two of him. Soon she discovers that she was partially right; there were six of him! He had been making marionettes of himself to be with multiple women simultaneously. After she kills the marionette copy of him, she commits suicide.
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In Content Item: FlagVault of Horror #2 [Direct Edition] published November 1991
as Surprise Package [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #20 published June 1997
as Surprise Package [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #4 published September 2008
as Pacco a sorpresa [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Letterer credit by Craig Delich.

Based on the story "The Changeling" by Ray Bradbury first published in the July 1949 issue of Super Science Stories.
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Progress

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: An inventor creates a revolutionary device that causes absolute silence in the area around it. This causes people to tune out outside noise and reinvent the lost art of reading books and conversation.
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In Content Item: FlagVault of Horror #2 [Direct Edition] published November 1991
as Progress! [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Reformers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: The ship came down from the space-vacuum...
Synopsis: A group of men called Reformers go to different worlds and try to blame all of those planets societal ills on comic books, alcohol. promiscuous clothing etc. They land on a particular planet and are shocked to find that despite having all these things, the society is not corrupted. That the people on this world can enjoy these things without becoming corrupted by them. The Reformers are frustrated and plan to cause discontent among the inhabitants. However their boss, Satan, assures them that can't happen since the world they are on is called Heaven.
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In Content Item: FlagBild & Bubblas stora seriebok #[nn] published January 1989
as Reformatörerna [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagVault of Horror #2 [Direct Edition] published November 1991
as The Reformers [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #20 published June 1997
as The Reformers [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagNemi #29 published September 2005
as Reformatorene [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #4 published September 2008
as I Riformatori [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.

Obvious commentary on how politicians and their allies was beginning to target comic books claiming they cause children to commit crimes.
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50 Girls 50

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): un-named General; Sid (death); Laura Masters (death); Wendy (villain)
First Line: I have to laugh!
Synopsis: Fifty men and fifty women are chosen to make a 100-year journey to a far-off solar system in order to inhabit it and continue the population process well into the future. Each volunteer would be quick-frozen so that they could be thawed out at the end of the journey and ready for their job, which is a process that could only be performed once. Sid sees an opportunity to thaw himself out early and thaw a different woman out at intervals so he can romance them while on the trip and then refreeze them when he gets bored. However one of these women turns the tables on him by refreezing him.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTales of the Incredible #U2140 published March 1965
as 50 Girls 50 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEC Portfolio #3 published January 1973
as 50 Girls 50 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagVault of Horror #2 [Direct Edition] published November 1991
as 50 Girls 50 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #20 published June 1997
as 50 Girls 50 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagNemi #9 published January 2004
as Kald lidenskap [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 50 Girls 50 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #4 published September 2008
as 50 ragazze 50 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #3 published March 2013
as 50 Girls 50 [Story on Interior Page(s)]black and white reprint
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7

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