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Issue: Weird Fantasy #3
Publication Date: January 1980
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Issues: #3 of 4 Issues
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Publisher: FlagRuss Cochran
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Indicia Publisher: Russ Cochran, Publisher
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 3
Pages: 212
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Price: none entered
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Content Items: 43 (32 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Russ Cochran
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color cover; mostly black & white interior
Dimensions: 10" x 13"
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Binding: Hardcover
Publishing Format: Collected Edition
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Joe Orlando

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Project... Survival!

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Luther Morton (President of Amalgamated Rocket Corporation); Dr. Jansen (scientist)
Synopsis: With a civil war raging on Earth, the President of the Amalgamated Rocket Corporation believes, that with the help of science, man can reach the Moon and use it as a base. What scares the scientists is that he also intends to use the highly powerful Electron Bomb on the rebels, a move that could end all life on Earth!
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A Lesson in Anatomy!!

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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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Explosive!

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The Die Is Cast!

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Character(s): Commandew Stone; Bitron; Berghoff; Kholler
Synopsis: The I.S.E.A. of Earth has commissioned Commander Stone to write out a detailed report on the destruction of his spaceship. What he tells about is almost too hard to believe.
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A Man's Job!

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Notes and Comments

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The End!

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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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Discovery

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Home to Stay!

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Disclose Notes: Swipe of Ray Bradbury's "Kaleidoscope" and "The Rocket Man"; this story led to the arrangement for EC to adapt Bradbury's stories
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Don't Count Your Chickens...

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The Exile!

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The Expert!

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Feature(s): "E.C. Quickie"
Character(s): Bill Gaines; Al Feldstein
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The Ad!

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Feature(s): "E.C. Quickie"
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Innovation

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Close Call!

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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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Mad Journey!

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Character(s): Rodney Simon (President of Crown Oil Company, rocket builder); Jeffreys (lab scientist, death); Alan Corlin (USAF scientist, death); Axel (Crown Oil executive); Mr. Buddins (Crown Oil executive)
Synopsis: One of Rodney Simon's lab workers at his company has discovered a way of refining high octane gasoline that produces certain gases, whose molecular structure is unknown.....but, when liquified, creates a new gas that, when mixed with oxygen, provides the force necessary to propel a rocket outside Earth's gravitational field. Although the Moon is the planned landing area, Simon decides Venus to be a better choice.....with dire consequences!
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Revulsion!

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The Quick Trip

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Character(s): Captain Philip Donnel (space-ship pilot); Bob Hatch (language expert); Lieutenant James Murtha (engineer, death)
Synopsis: Captain Donnel is heading up a mission to the star Pollux.....a journey taking 30 light years. Once they arrive, they have one year to explore to system and make contact with any life forms they encounter. There is only one problem: once they get there, they discover that Pollux has completely disappeared!
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The Long Trip

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Character(s): Captain Philip Donnel (space ship pilot); Bob Hatch (language expert); Lieutenant James Murtha (engineer, death); Sandor Mannershmitt (inventor of the space time overdrive, mention only)
Synopsis: Captain Donnel is assigned the duty of traveling to the star Pollux, a 30 year travel distance, in order to study the star's solar system, which is supposedly very much like the Earth's solar system. However, due to the distance and time involved, Donnel and his crew will be considerably older after the mission and may not return......alive. They have a surprise awaiting them upon landing.
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Genius!

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He Who Waits!

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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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By George!!

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Character(s): Alan (archaeologist); Marvin (archaeologist); un-named alien boy (death); Princess Sabra; Saint George
Synopsis: Two archaeologists uncover a large, smooth object, looking very much like a building block, that is covered with etched inscriptions on five of its six sides, which are later translated by Marvin. To their surprise, the block proves to be a diary of an alien boy who stole a spaceship on his planet 14 Centuries before.
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Mass Meeting!

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Skeleton Key!

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Character(s): Dr. Donald Purcell (archaeologist); Professor Godfrey Clinton; Dr. Seymour Karnes (death); Bill Wentworth (physicist)
Synopsis: Some archaeologists are conducting a dig and discovered what they believe is the first complete fossilized skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus Rex. What puzzles them is the discovery of a human skull with those remains.......and what a surprise and shock they are in for when they discover why!
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Mr. Halley's Comet

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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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The Green Thing!

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In the Beginning...

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Ahead of the Game!

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The Space Pirate

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The Aliens

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Synopsis: A group of aliens, heading towards the Earth to warn them and teach them about atomic power that Earthlings had recently discovered, are shocked to see the planet explode. They land on a fragment of the Earth remaining to see what they can learn about this civilization.
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Many panels show the aliens discovering and reading through a copy of Weird Fantasy #17.....this issue, and this story in particular!
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There Will Come Soft Rains...

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Synopsis: This story basically serves as a allegory for human's ethical progress failing to keep pace with his technological progress. It describes an automatic house that continues to function long after the people that once lived there have been reduced to dust stains on the wall by nuclear holocaust.
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Disclose Notes: An adaptation of a Ray Bradbury's Martian story.
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Russ Cochran Presents the Complete EC Library

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