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Issue: Weird Science-Fantasy #29

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Publication Date: May 1955

Issue #29
- Weird Fantasy
- #23
- #24
- #25
- #26
- #27
- #28
- ✔ #29
- Show Variants
- Incredible Science Fiction

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Issues: #29 of 7 Issues

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Indicia Publisher: Fables Publishing Co. Inc.

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Volume: 1

Pages: 36

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

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Content Items: 12 (5 stories, 1 cover)

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Notes: Final issue. Becomes "Incredible Science Fiction" with issue #30.

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Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: Color

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6 Content Items

reprinted 9 times as Content Items in other Issues.

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The EC Archives: Incredible Science Fiction #[nn] published August 2017

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Content Items (12 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

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Genres: science fiction

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Iskalde Grøss #3 [1988] published January 1988
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Weird Science-Fantasy #7 published May 1994
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]

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Pages: 1

Notes: Frank Frazetta originally drew this cover depicting Buck Rogers fighting apemen for "Famous Funnies", but the publisher rejected the cover for being too violent. Frazetta would retouch the cover (it was no longer Buck Rogers) and sell it to EC Comics to be used for this issue.

A New Beginning

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First Line: The man lifted his head from his arms and looked dazedly...

Synopsis: A boy stowaway on a rocket to space is taken in by the crew and helps them in their research on other worlds. When they begin dying off due to viruses, he (now an adult) flies the rocket back to Earth, only to discover it is now an uninhabited dead world.

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Weird Science-Fantasy #7 published May 1994
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The Chosen One

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Genres: science fiction

First Line: I had been asleep...

Synopsis: Two celestial beings land on Earth and approach a man at his home. The man thinks his son is an inhuman genius, and is worried the celestial beings want to take him to their world. But it turns out the inhuman genius they wanted to take back to their world, was the family dog.

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Weird Science-Fantasy #7 published May 1994
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Pages: 7

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Pages: 0.75

Notes: Letters from Leroy Dozier, William Peabody, Jr., Hal Opperman, Robert Wynkoop, Tom Smith, Sam Cornell, Mike Oliveri, Jim Plalen, Peter Comber, Landon Chesney, Roy Keats.

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Vicious Circle

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Genres: science fiction

Character(s): John (death); Samuel (the leader); David

First Line: He was one of us and yet they killed him.

Synopsis: David's best friend is killed because he dared break the one law of his people: never to build machines which could destroy people. That machine? The wheel!

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Iskalde Grøss #6/1992 published January 1992
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Weird Science-Fantasy #7 published May 1994
as Vicious Circle [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #3 published March 2013
as Vicious Circle [Story on Interior Page(s)]Reprinted in black and white.

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Pages: 6

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Genres: historical

Feature(s): Valor (EC)

Character(s): King Arthur

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Genres: aviation, war

Feature(s): Aces High

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Genres: drama

Feature(s): Psychoanalysis

Character(s): Freddy Carter

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Notes: Subscription ad.

Genesis

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Genres: science fiction

First Line: The ship was the last.

Synopsis: When Earth's scientists discover that radiation is making the human race sterile, plans are made to colonize Mars. But it turns out man can't procreate on Mars. Martian procreation is done through binary fission like amoebas. Realizing that humanity is doomed, everyone returns to Earth except for one man. He decides to stay behind and miraculously goes through binary fission, splitting into two!

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Weird Science-Fantasy #7 published May 1994
as Genesis [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Pages: 6

Adam Link in Business

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

First Line: I am a robot...

Synopsis: The robot Adam Link is spared the death penalty and officially becomes a citizen. He sets up a business and becomes a humanitarian, clearing out slums so poor people can live in new upscale homes. When his secretary falls in love with him, the human emotions he feels confuses him, and he decides to flee out into the woods to live in isolation.

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Weird Science-Fantasy #7 published May 1994
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Pages: 7

Notes: Eando Binder adaptation. "Eando" is pen name of long-time comics scripter Otto Binder.
Sequel to the previous issue's story "The Trial of Adam Link". Adapted from the short story originally published in the January 1940 issue of Amazing Stories.