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Issue: The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #8
Publication Date: March 2014
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Issues: #8 of 37 Issues
Title: Zero Hour and Other Stories
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Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
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Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Inc.
On Sale Date: 01/2014
Volume: 8
Pages: 176
ISBN: 9781606997048
UPC/EAN: 978160699704852899
Price: $28.99 USD
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Content Items: 32 (22 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Hardcover
Color: black and white with some color
Dimensions: 7.25" x 10.25" (18.4 cm x 26 cm)
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Binding: hardcover
Publishing Format: collected edition
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Zero Hour and Other Stories

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Zero Hour and Other Stories

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[untitled]

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Graceful, Glamorous, and Easy on the Eye

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First Line: It was early 1950, and Kamen was visiting the EC Comics offices
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Only Human!

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Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Weird Science
Character(s): Andrew Harmon; unnamed M.P.; unnamed Secretary of Defense; Miss Landers; Buster (an electronic brain)
Synopsis: Romance develops between Andrew Harmon and Miss Landers while they are employed to help educate an electronic brain. Unfortunately, that creates problems for the brain when it also begins to think of Miss Landers!
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Shrinking from Abuse!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Doctor Hugo Masterson (death); Martha Masterson (Hugo's wife); Professor Hardin
Synopsis: Hugo Masterson has created a formula to shrink tissue in order to possibly cure cancer, but he accidentally injects himself and is then injested by his wife.
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The Last Man!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Larry; Hank; Larry's sister
Synopsis: Larry intends to set the new world's altitude record for an atmospheric balloon. When he reaches an altitude of 15 miles, he spots an atomic explosion on Earth, which proceedes to destroy everything on the planet. After some time, he lands back on the devastated planet, and finds a lone survivor: his sister!
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A Lesson in Anatomy!!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Stevey Williams; Dr. Williams (county coroner, Stevey's father); Martha Williams (the doctor's wife); Sheriff Ames; a stranger (villain, a robot, death); two alien beings (villains)
Synopsis: Chased away from his father's lab while he dissects a body, Stevey finds a stranger in the forest. Wanting to brag, Stevey tells the man all sorts of falsehoods, which he believes. But Stevey soon learns a secret about the stranger he doesn't expect to discover.
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Saving for the Future

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Character(s): Dr. Lloyd Brewster; Grace Brewster (Lloyd's wife, mention only); Ellen (Brewster's assistant and lover); Joe (a banker)
Synopsis: Dr. Brewster has created serum 129-A, which can put any creature, animal or human, into a state of indefinite suspended animation. When the good doctor's wife refuses to give her husband a divorce, Lloyd and his lover decide to use the serum on themselves, and remain in suspended animation until his wife has died. When they awaken five hundred years later, things look great... until something they hadn't counted on occurs, putting the entire world in danger!
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The Trip!

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Character(s): Lon Masterson (scientist); Edith Fuller (Masterson's assistant); Henrietta Masterson (Lon's wife); Colonel Curtis
Synopsis: Dr. Masterson is attempting to solve a problem for the Space Colonization Authority in regards as to how to get live animals to distant planets for colonists to use as food. He hits upon the only way possible: to quick freeze them for transport. When the doctor falls in love with his assistant (and his wife will not agree to a divorce), he decides to quick freeze Ellen and transport her to a far distant colony where both will remain forever.
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Close Call!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Dr. Annette Beard; Dr. Granger (flashback); Roger Forbes (engineer, flashback)
Synopsis: Dr. Beard finds herself as the only living being still alive in the world after a nuclear explosion. She pauses to remember how things once were and how she blew chance after chance to make a better life for herself. Then an opportunity materializes out of nowhere in the here and now, but can she make the most of it?
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Miscalculation!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Melvin Sputterly; Miss Winkleman (Melvin's neighbor); Mr. Hamish (building superintendent)
Synopsis: Melvin was a miserable, lonely man, who craved nothing more than someone to love. Then, one day, a package from the year 2952 arrived.....a package he didn't order....a package containing a De Lux Personal Harem Kit, containing five of the most beautiful harem girls ever dehydrated.
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He Who Waits!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Percy (bachelor scientist); Alec; Petite (a flower girl, death)
Synopsis: Percy is given an unusual plant as a gift from Alec, and he notes that a tiny, 8" tall girl has emerged from it. Percy then takes a special secret solution to shrink in size so that he can take the girl for his own.
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Given the Heir!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Seymour Watkins; Helen Watkins (Seymour's wife); Zenob Watkins (the Watkin's great-great grandson from the future)
Synopsis: Seymour refuses to marry Helen until he is rich, and one day he discovers a way to accomplish that goal, when he is visited by his relative from the year 2046. Together they conspire for Zenob to go back in time and murder a certain relative so that Seymour can become very wealthy.....but it backfires.
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What He Saw!

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Character(s): Martin; two beautiful girls (apparitions); Jean (Martin's wife, apparition); Czuk (villain); Trark (villain)
Synopsis: Martin had been marooned on a barren lifeless planetoid for four months when a beautiful woman appears on the scene. When she disappears, another appears....and then vanishes. But when Martin's wife appears, he can't believe she is real or what in the world is going on.....is he mad or what?
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Off Day!

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Character(s): Professor Stanley Dingle; Robbie (baseball player); Pee-Wee (baseball player); unnamed janitor
Synopsis: Professor Dingle deviates from his prepared presentation to discuss the breakdown on the law of averages.
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The Parallel!

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Character(s): Calvin Henkel (death); Florence Henkel (Calvin's wife, death); Mrs. Fishkin (Calvin's neighbor)
Synopsis: Feeling that he had already lived the exact moment before, Calvin tells his wife that he believes that there exists a parallel world which duplicates exactly everything happening at the current time. He plots to go to this parallel world and murder his counterpart so that he alone can control his own destiny.
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Zero Hour

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Mary Morris; Mink Morris (daughter of Mary Morris); Henry Morris (Mary's husband); Joseph Conners; Anna; Peggy Ann; Helen (Mary's friend in New York); Tim (Helen's son); Drill (villain, a Martian)
Synopsis: Mrs. Morris, at first, thinks nothing of her daughter and a friend playing their game of "invasion". But when Mink starts telling of a Martian named Drill, who is the fore-runner of a Martian invasion of Earth, and Mary discovers that kids of her friends in other parts of the country are playing the same game, she wonders if this is for real.
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Hot-Rod!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Sally (Amos' lover); Cynthia (Amos' wife, death); unnamed time traveler; Amos (villain, a bookkeeper)
Synopsis: Amos and Sally are driving by a lake when a strangely garbed man jumps up on the running board of their car and drops a package in the back seat. Later, Amos looks at the package, postmarked May 15, 2053, and discovers something called a trans-dimensional transporter inside. Thinking it to be some sort of gadget to soup up his hot-rod, Amos installs the device, traveling into the future. He then plots to kill his wife and travel into the future to establish an alibi.....with unexpected results.
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...Conquers All!

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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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Surprise Package

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Character(s): Leonard Hill (mention only); robotic Leonard Hill (death); Martha (villain, death)
Synopsis: Martha was very suspicious of Leonard.......although she planned to kill him, 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!
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Punishment Without Crime

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Character(s): George Hill; Katherine Hill [aka Katie] (George's wife); Leonard Phelps (Katherine's lover); Katherine (a marionette, death); Smith (a Policeman)
Synopsis: Deeply hurt that his wife was in love with another man, George decides to do something that was considered illegal: he paid $10,000 to re-enact his life with a stringless marionette version of Katherine, then murder her as an act of revenge. A cathatic murder....the violent unviolence.....the death without death.....the murdering without murder. Or so he thought.....
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Planely Possible

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Character(s): Walter Thurmond (death); Ruth Thurmond (Walter's wife, death); Dean Warburton (a hospital lab technician)
Synopsis: After a serious car accident, Walter's wife slips into a coma and passes away. But when a hospital lab tech approches Walter, telling him that he can transport the grieved man into one of several different planes of existence, one of which has the couple both still alive. Walter agrees.....but soon wishes he hadn't.
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The Freaks

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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)
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.
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4th Degree

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Character(s): Val Draper (teacher, death); Andrea Coles (a scientist); Miss Tebbits (a nurse); Dr. Felix Walton (villain, S.S. Police member)
Synopsis: Val Draper wants to travel to the past to prevent the downfall of the planet. But he soon learns that he has been duped.
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Round Trip

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Character(s): Henry Wilkens (diner dish washer); Ellie (Henry's wife)
Synopsis: All of his life, Henry was a dreamer, and his big dream was to be the Captain of a spaceship, or at least be able to travel into the depths of space.
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Jack Kamen

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First Line: During the heyday of EC Comics
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From Science Fiction to Science Fortune

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First Line: When Jack Kamen decided to mortgage his house
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Behind the Panels

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Cool Tech and Hot Passion!

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