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Issue: Weird Science #4
Publication Date: January 1980
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Issues: #4 of 4 Issues
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Publisher: FlagRuss Cochran
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Indicia Publisher: Russ Cochran, Publisher
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Volume: 4
Pages: 180
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Content Items: 39 (25 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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First Line: Alone in space with fifty frozen dolls...
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Mars Is Heaven!

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Synopsis: Sneaky Martians disguise themselves as the dead loved ones of astronauts in order to slay them in their sleep.
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Snap Ending!

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Character(s): Captain Don Mitchel (Commander of the United Earth's Mineral Evaluation Scout-Rocket Number 269, death); Lieutenant Sidney Gerson (Navigation Officer, death); Harold Kolby (ship's mineralogist, death); Janet Mitchel (Mitchel's wife); Billy Mitchel (Mitchel's son, flashback); Fznk (alien child)
Synopsis: Rocketship #269 is approaching a gigantic planet with a density 50 times that of the Earth, and decide to circle it to take a closer look. They spot and decide to land on a satellite moon of the planet.......with dire results!
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Fever

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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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Disassembled!

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Ray Bradbury

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The Precious Years

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The One Who Waits

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Character(s): A Soul Well (host); Regent (death); Jones (death); Captain Sessions (death); Captain Samuel Mathews (death); William Spaulding (death); Forrest Cole (death); John Summers (death)
Synopsis: A rocket full of Earthlings land on a planet occupied by a mysterious "Soul Well": a place where waiting things.....things that once had flesh.....reside and wait......and wait.
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An adaptation of a Ray Bradbury's Martian story.
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Bouillion Cotillion

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Right on the Button!

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Keyed Up!

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Al Williamson

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First Line: Alone in space with fifty frozen dolls...
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The Loathsome!

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Synopsis: A doctor sends a deformed mutant child that was the product of her father's exposure to atomic radiation to be brought up in an orphanage. The women of the orphanage dislike her because she displays poor behavior. One day the younger nurse comments to the older one that the girl is behaving herself recently and the older nurse recalls that all children receive a birthday party at ten years old and the girl must figure she is going to get one. The young woman asks if she is going to give the child one and the older woman states that it wouldn't be right to expect the other children to attend, so they'll just skip it in the mutant girl's case. They discover that the girl was spying on them and when she returns to her room she smashes the mirror. She's punished, and that evening the younger nurse sees the girl on the grounds stuffing notes into tree hollows. She assumes that she must be up to no good and informs the older woman. The following evening they confront the child demanding the note and the girl flees from them. She climbs up a tree branch overhanging the orphanage's spiked wall and loses her grip. As the note slips from the hand of the dying impaled child, the older woman picks it up. It says "To whoever finds this note - I love you."
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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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Progress

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The Reformers

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50 Girls 50

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Character(s): un-named General; Sid (death); Laura Masters (death); Wendy (villain)
Synopsis: Fifty men and fifty women are chosen to make a 100-year journey to a far solar system in order to inhabit it and continue the population process well into the future. Each volunteer would be quick-frozen so that they could be thawed out at the end of the journey and ready for their job....a process that could only be performed once. But one of the men, Sid, sees an opportunity of being able to enjoy one woman per year while on the trip.....unfortunately, his intended has different plans!
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EC Confidential!

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Disclose Notes: Bill Gaines, Al Feldstein, Wally Wood, Joe Orlando, Al Williamson, Jack Kamen and other EC staff (including "P.T. Fables") appear, and are revealed to be Venusians!
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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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Super-Rocket

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Two's Company...

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Character(s): Forbes; Velda; Carter (death); Glass (death); Wilkens (death)
Synopsis: Years before, Forbes had crashed onto an unknown planet and awaited rescue. Several years after the crash, he ran into a beautiful, mute girl, and they developed a relationship. One day, a rescue crew appeared and when they tell Forbes that she doesn't really exist, he goes crazy and kills the rescue team.......and Velda magically re-appears!
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The Ugly One

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William M. Gaines, Alias Melvin

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In Memoriam

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Synopsis: Announcement of WEIRD SCIENCE's combining with WEIRD FANTASY as WEIRD SCIENCE-FANTASY.
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A New Beginning

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Character(s): un-named Professor; Adam; Eve
Synopsis: A professor creates a time machine that will enable him to send a man and woman back to before man existed on Earth. Using the "propagation machine," they could slowly populate the Earth with people far superior to those who would come after, and the evils of the present would be eliminated. But the couple decide that artificial creation of people is wrong and decide on another option.
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The Headhunters

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Stickum!

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My World

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Outcast of the Stars

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Russ Cochran Presents the Complete EC Library

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