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Issue: Incredible Science Fiction #30
Publication Date: July 1955
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Issues: #30 of 4 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagEC
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Fables Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 9 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: First issue. Continued from Weird Science-Fantasy #29. First EC Science Fiction book produced under the Comics Code Authority.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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In Content Item: FlagIncredible Science Fiction #8 published August 1994
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Pages: 1
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E.C.'s "New Direction" One-Two-Punch Mags!

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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: With covers of M.D. #1 and Psychoanalysis #2
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Clean Start

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: Lth was uneasy.
Synopsis: Two amoeba like aliens (one male and one female) are tasked by the Solar Federation with trying to help humanity from destroying itself. They deduce the best thing to do is take one male and one female, destroy every other being on Earth, and start the species all over again. They take human disguises and go about looking for a human. The female finds one, captures him, and takes him back to the ship. Humanity is then wiped out. She is worried that her mate hasn't returned to the ship with his human yet. But to her horror realizes that the man she abducted was her mate in his human form.
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In Content Item: FlagStrange Planets #1 published January 1958
as Clean Start [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #6/1992 published January 1992
as Rent bord [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIncredible Science Fiction #8 published August 1994
as Clean Start [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 8
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Marbles

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Alfred Coppel (story)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): X-17 crew members [Hollis; Captain McGraw; Enkers; Danton]; General Butler
First Line: It was a solemn moment for the carefully picked and extensively trained crew...
Synopsis: The X-17 is set to become the first manned rocket to be launched from the Earth and the four-man crew was excited to become the first to reach another planet. To them, the distant stars looked like marbles. Then McGraw sends his first report: their target planet, Mars, seems to get smaller as they approach it, and Enkers donned a suit and went out and got it....it was the size of a rubber ball. And the other planets had similar issues like this as well. The General and assistants can't believe what they are hearing and deduce the crew has gone insane.
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In Content Item: FlagStrange Planets #1 published January 1958
as Marbles [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMystic #2 published January 1961
as Marbles [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIncredible Science Fiction #8 published August 1994
as Marbles [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: This story was inspired by "Mother" by Alfred Coppel, which appeared in "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction" in September of 1952.
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[untitled]

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters from Warren F. Link, Jack Promo, Fred von Bernewitz, George Dipmon, James Trent, Dan Adkins, Keith Nutt, John Siegel, Dennis Rullo, San Cornell, Jimmy Riley, Angel Gonzalez, Allan Stark.
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Conditioned Reflex

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: Prologue: On the screen, a world died.
Synopsis: An alien from a world whose atmosphere is comprised of methane is tasked by his superiors to infiltrate Earth and find out about their strengths and weaknesses, so they can conquer the planet. He is modified to look human and told to act just like the humans do as to not arouse suspicion. When on Earth, he picks up the human's habit of lighting and smoking cigarettes. After he returns home, he lights a cigarette by habit and it causes the methane atmosphere to light up and the planet to explode!
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In Content Item: FlagStrange Planets #1 published January 1958
as Conditioned Reflex [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMystic #2 published January 1961
as Conditioned Reflex [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIncredible Science Fiction #8 published August 1994
as Conditioned Reflex [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
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E.C.'s "New Direction" Mags

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Disclose Notes: Ads for Impact, Valor, Extra!, Aces High, Incredible Science-Fiction, Piracy.
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Not Even a Sparrow Shall Fall...

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: "Dear LORD," wrote old Elmo Danton.
Synopsis: In the 29th century, Earth is about to be evacuated and destroyed by the LORD (Licensed Organization Reducing Deadworlds). This is because the Earth has been stripped of all its ore and is considered a dead planet. Just before the planet is destroyed, a geologist prays to that other Lord (God) for help and is then shocked to discover massive amounts of ore hidden deep in the planet. The Earth is saved!
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In Content Item: FlagIncredible Science Fiction #8 published August 1994
as Not Even a Sparrow Shall Fall... [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
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Barrier

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: The ship was a symphony of power...
Synopsis: In the future, both the Western and Eastern Alliances (who are at war with each other), are trying to beat each other to the Moon for global domination. But their ships are constantly crashing into an invisible barrier near the moon. They later discover that the barrier encompasses the entire Earth, and that they are caged. Why? Because evolved aliens believe humans are like violent wild animals and all wild animals need to be caged.
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In Content Item: FlagStrange Planets #1 published January 1958
as Barrier [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #3 [1988] published January 1988
as Barrieren [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIncredible Science Fiction #8 published August 1994
as Barrier [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 7

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