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Issue: Weird Science #22
Publication Date: November 1953
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Issues: #22 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: 8 (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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Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Cover, Front
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #1 published September 1990
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #22 published December 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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In Memoriam

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Announcement of WEIRD SCIENCE combining with WEIRD FANTASY as WEIRD SCIENCE-FANTASY.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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A New Beginning

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): un-named Professor; Adam; Eve
First Line: The woman opened her eyes.
Synopsis: A professor creates a time machine that will enable him to send a man and woman back to before man existed on Earth. Using the "propagation machine," they could slowly populate the Earth with people far superior to those who would come after, and the evils of the present would be eliminated. When they go back to the prehistoric past, the couple decide that artificial creation of people is wrong and decide to procreate the natural way. The man and woman are named Adam and Eve.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #1 published September 1990
as A New Beginning [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #22 published December 1997
as A New Beginning [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #4 published September 2008
as Un nuovo inizio [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #3 published March 2013
as A New Beginning [Story on Interior Page(s)]black and white reprint
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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The Headhunters

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): unnamed doctor; two unnamed white coated attendants;
First Line: The two white-coated attendants dragged their screaming, struggling charge...
Synopsis: The attendants brought in a crazy, raving man they had found roaming through a park. The doctor gave him a hypo to calm him down, then attached terminals of a diathermy machine to the man's head. After a short while, he was cured of his insanity, although a strange burn mark remained on the man's forehead, just like others before him, and that remained a mystery to the doctor. In truth, the machine would summon tiny spacemen who would land on the victims head (causing the burn mark) and destroy parasitic worm-like creatures inside the patients brain that were causing the madness.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #1 published September 1990
as The Headhunters [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #22 published December 1997
as The Headhunters [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #4 published September 2008
as I cacciatori di teste [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.
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Stickum!

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: An arborist creates a solution that will help trees be able to regrow damaged bark. When he enters a huge red oak tree that has been severely damaged, he applies the solution but the bark grows around him trapping him inside the tree!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: No letters; editorial about the E.C. Fan-Addict Club.
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My World

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Wally Wood
First Line: This is my world.
Synopsis: The narrator explains how he has the ability to create any world and narrative he wants. He does this by showing scenes of tragedy and triumphs. Aliens and humans. Beauty and ugliness. Life and death etc. It turns out that the story is being drawn by Wally Wood.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFantastic Exploits #19 published January 1971
as My World [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEC Portfolio #1 published January 1971
as My World [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #1 published September 1990
as My World [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #22 published December 1997
as My World [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #4 published September 2008
as Il mio mondo [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Wally Wood was a prolific artist that worked on EC titles.

Cover story. However it features the Adam and Eve characters from "A New Beginning", the first story of this issue.
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Outcast of the Stars

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: Many nights Fiorello Bodoni would awaken to hear the rockets...
Synopsis: A poor man longs to fly a rocket into space and show his children the wonders of the universe but cannot afford a rocket. He manages to buy a cheap prototype that can't fly, but uses what little money he has to make it seem like it can fly to impress his children and fill them with wonder.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTomorrow Midnight #U2142 published June 1966
as Outcast of the Stars [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #1 published September 1990
as Outcast of the Stars [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #22 published December 1997
as Outcast of the Stars [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #4 published September 2008
as Il reietto delle stelle [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Adaptation of the Ray Bradbury story that was first published in the March 1950 issue of "Super Science Stories". The story would later be renamed "The Rocket" in latter day reprints.

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