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Issue: Weird Science-Fantasy #28
Publication Date: March 1955
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Issues: #28 of 7 Issues
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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 (4 stories, 1 cover)
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Color: Color
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Genres: science fiction
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In Content Item: FlagThe Haunt of Fear #1 published May 1991
as Weird Science-Fantasy #28 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science-Fantasy #6 published February 1994
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Pages: 1
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Mad; Panic
First Line: No, I said! You can't have my copy of MAD!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Mad & Panic subscription ad.
Inside front cover. Will Elder drawing grafted onto a 19th century Civil War print.
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The Inferiors

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: science fiction
First Line: Earth and her solar system, and a hundred other solar systems...
Synopsis: A crew of spacemen from Earth are traveling through the cosmos to do research. Every Earth-like planet they come across, has had its civilization completely destroyed by the humanoid reptile beings that lived there. They eventually find out what's been happening. These beings are purposefully destroying themselves because they feel they will regress into their violent descendents. Humanoid mammals known as man!
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In Content Item: FlagThe Haunt of Fear #1 published May 1991
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In Content Item: FlagWeird Science-Fantasy #6 published February 1994
as The Inferiors [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Cover story.
Loosely based on "The Lost Race" by Murray Leinster.
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Lost In Space

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Myra Van Dyke; Martin Van Dyke (Myra's father, uranium mine owner); Jim (factory worker, death)
First Line: In their luxurious summer home at the edge of the vast Mare Imprium...
Synopsis: Myra tells her father that she doesn't wish to remain on Mars any longer, but return to Earth to her Jim. One day, she makes the trip by herself......but Earth is not there!
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In Content Item: FlagThe Haunt of Fear #1 published May 1991
as Lost In Space [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science-Fantasy #6 published February 1994
as Lost In Space [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #3 published March 2013
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: One primary area that Torres was asked by Williamson to do was the woman's face in the last panel of the story.
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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Piracy
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Letters from Bevan M. French, Bob Kostelnik, Buck L. Sloan, Wayne Fenner, John P. Adcock, Ralph Niderhuber, Jean DrGrazia, Karla Dorn, Mack Braly, Stanford Grossman, Gene Kelly, David K. Stump, Shirley Watson, D. Pray, Edwin Rainey, Ron Wheeler, Edward S. Schultz, Dan Gallin, Kenneth Thuloweit.
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Round Trip

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Henry Wilkens (diner dish washer); Ellie (Henry's wife)
First Line: Your name is Henry Wilkens.
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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In Content Item: FlagThe Haunt of Fear #1 published May 1991
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In Content Item: FlagWeird Science-Fantasy #6 published February 1994
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Corrected script credits and letterer credit by Craig Delich.

Some of the story is told in flashback.
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The Trial of Adam Link

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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First Line: I think I must have had the same feeling...
Synopsis: The robot Adam Link is revived by the nephew of his creator who wants to defend him against humanity. Despite saving two people from a fire and a little boy from a speeding car, the people are so afraid of him that he is found guilty and sentenced to death.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Haunt of Fear #1 published May 1991
as The Trial of Adam Link [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science-Fantasy #6 published February 1994
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Eando Binder adaptation. "Eando" is pen name of long-time comics scripter Otto Binder.
Sequel to the previous issue's story "I, Robot".
Adapted from the short story originally published in the July 1939 issue of Amazing Stories.

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