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Issue: Weird Fantasy #22
Publication Date: November 1953
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Issues: #22 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: 7 (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: FlagHaunt of Fear #5 published March 1992
as Weird Fantasy #22 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #22 published January 1998
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Silent Towns

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Walter Grippe; Genevieve Selsor
First Line: There was a little white silent town on the edge of the dead Martian sea.
Synopsis: Walter surveys a little white silent town on the edge of a dead Martian sea, wondering what happened to all of its inhabitants. He suddenly hears a phone ringing, but he is too late to answer it. After this happens twice, he succeeds in answering a phone and finds a Miss Selsor on the other end, and he meets her, only to find that she is fat and ugly. Knowing that she is the only woman alive and he is the only man, he does the only thing he can: he goes back to the bachelor life!
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In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #5 published March 1992
as The Silent Towns [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #22 published January 1998
as The Silent Towns [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: An adaptation of a Ray Bradbury Martian story first published in the March 1949 issue of Charm.
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The Freaks

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): The Freaks [Bosco (the dog-faced boy, death); Mildred (the fat lady); Elasto (the rubber-skinned man); Aldo (the hairy ape-man); Tarpo (the living skeleton); rest unnamed]; Stanley Gilby (circus co-owner); Ned Smote (circus co-owner); Callon-X (man from the future)
First Line: The freaks stood upon their platforms before the gaping crowd.
Synopsis: The freaks at a circus side show are sick and tired of the stares of the crowds, their snickers, their groans of disgust.....and one decides to quit. But when the freak is found dead in his tent, the circus owners go in search for a replacement. They think they have found one.....but soon they find that the tables have turned on them.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #5 published March 1992
as The Freaks [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #22 published January 1998
as The Freaks [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Corrected script credits and letterer credit by Craig Delich.
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Public Service!

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: A man invents special powder that will revolutionize dental care. When dentists from all across the country protest about how his invention will put them out of business, he decides to destroy the powder.
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In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #5 published March 1992
as Public Service! [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: 1/2 of the story is on each page of the centerfold (the other 1/2 of each page is house ads for Weird Science #22 and Picture Stories from the Bible, Science, and World History.
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: No letters but information on joining The E.C. Fan-Addict Club.
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The Fossil

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: Their gleaming ship had come down from the star-studded void...
Synopsis: A crew of explorers land on a desolate dead world and discover giant bones. They piece together the bones to try to replicate how this giant being looked when it was alive. While this is happening, they discover that life on their world originated from this planet. When the process is completed, the tiny humanoid insect beings see that the being is a human baby!
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In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #7/1991 published January 1991
as Fossilen! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #5 published March 1992
as The Fossil [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #22 published January 1998
as The Fossil [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.
Cover story.
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Derelict Ship

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Captain Vance Kaye; Lt. Fielding; Captain Kenneth Kaye (K-75 pilot, Vance's father, death); Bert (K-75 crew member, death)
First Line: Captain Vance Kaye labored across the synthetically-gravitated deck plates...
Synopsis: Captain Kaye and his crew spot a derelict rocket ship, the Y-75, and close in to investigate, and discover it has been floating out in space for over 20 years. Going aboard, they discover to their surprise that this 2-man vessel had skeletons of many people on board, so they begin reading the ship's log to determine why. The log tells that the ship needed repairs and set down unknowingly on Elba-II: an exile planet full of prisoners. The prisoners had taken over the ship and forced the crew to take them back to Earth. The captain refused and jettisoned the fuel leaving them to die in space.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #5 published March 1992
as Derelict Ship [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #22 published January 1998
as Derelict Ship [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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