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Issue: The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #21
Publication Date: March 2018
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Issues: #21 of 37 Issues
Title: Master Race and Other Stories
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Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
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Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Inc.
On Sale Date: 01/17/2018
Volume: 21
Pages: 242
ISBN: 9781683960942
UPC/EAN: 978168396094252999
Price: $29.99 USD
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Content Items: 45 (32 stories, 0 covers)
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Publication Type: Hardcover
Color: black and white with some color
Dimensions: 7.25" x 10.25" (18.4 cm x 26 cm)
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Binding: hardcover
Publishing Format: collected edition
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[untitled]

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Master Race and Other Stories

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Table of Contents

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Master of Design

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Derelict Ship

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The Flying Machine

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Character(s): Emperor Yuan
Synopsis: When Emperor Yuan discovers that a villager has learned how to create a flying machine he has him killed so the secret won't fall into the wrong hands.
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Prairie Schooner

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Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (host)
Synopsis: A story about a madman who converts a house into a ship in the middle of a prairie.
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The Monster from the Fourth Dimension

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Slave Ship

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Synopsis: An schooner adrift off the coast of Africa is visited by an alien ship that abducts humans to be their slaves.
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Monotony

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Pipe Dream

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Feature(s): The Vault of Horror
Character(s): The Vault-Keeper (host); Chen Chu Yang
Synopsis: Chen visits an opium den, where he has drug-induced dreams that give him power and importance. But his visit bring him dreams that come true. His daughter got engaged to a man that he didn't approve of...and another trip and dream later, that young suitor was dead. To make matters worse, his daughter was blamed for the killing and was put to death for it. Now, Chen lays once again in the opium den...to have yet another dream!
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The Pioneer

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Character(s): Professor Alec Lathem; Dean Miller; Hiram Jenkins
Synopsis: Professor Lathem builds a new rocket engine in his barn.
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You, Murderer

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Synopsis: A story told in first person about the victim a hypnotist picks to do his dirty work for a killing after his wife leaves him for another man.
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The Bath

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Synopsis: A servant of the owner of a silver mine fills his bath with piranha after the mine owner unknowningly works the servant's younger brother to death and shoots his parents who were attempting to extract revenge.
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More Blessed to Give...

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Bellyful

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The Catacombs

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Character(s): The Vault-Keeper (host); Pietro Miuta; Gino Alcari
Synopsis: Pietro grabbed the sack of silver as Gino followed him out of the store and headed for their hideout. The take was good, goods worth 4000 lire. Hiding the swag in the Catacombs, they headed down into the eerie place, lined with the long departed. Reaching their desired spot, Pietro suddenly plunged a knife into the back of his partner. Grabbing the loot, he headed back down the unlit passages toward the exit, lamp in hand, but became disoriented and hopelessly lost. He found his way back to Gino's body. And then...the lamp's light went out!
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Key Chain

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Master Race

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The Purge

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Character(s): The Vault-Keeper (host); Sir Benjamin; King Horace; Alicia
Synopsis: King Horace is called to the cell of a lovely lady and he asks her why she wants to see him. Alicia tells him that she was controlled by the devil and wanted to be purged of him. So the King goes to see his court wizard who says he can do the difficult task, but he has much difficulty, and is given seven days to succeed or lose his head.
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Murder Dream

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Synopsis: A maniac ax-murderer assumes his victim's identity in his dreams until he is compelled to return to the scene of the crime to murder the victim's wife as well.
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The Pit!

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Character(s): The Vault-Keeper (host); Felix & Lila Johnson; Aaron & Beatrice Scott
Synopsis: Felix and Lila watched a cock fight, and Felix thought it was inhuman. Nearby, they was another fight brewing...between vicious dogs, and a similar argument brewed between Aaron and Beatrice Scott. Later Aaron and Felix compared notes and discovered that the two couples were trying to outdo each other to draw paying crowds. Later the two women ran into each other and a slow hatred developed between the two. To the husbands involved, there was only one solution to their "problem" women and competing "businesses": they put the two women into the arena and let them go at each other!
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In the Bag

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Synopsis: A cop kills a man with a bowling ball in a bag thinking it's a head.
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Just Her Speed

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Numbskull

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Synopsis: This story is told by the skull of a sadistic animal trapper in Africa who traps animals only in order to inflict pain on them before he kills them. One day he falls victim to one of his own pit traps and as various sorts of animals gather round, the ants strip his flesh clean.
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Mau Mau!

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The Mascot

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Revenge

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Marbles

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The Spy

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Character(s): Captain Dan Williams; Jed Markel; Lieutenant Klaus Ritter; Von Helig; Stan; Morgan; Davis
Synopsis: Someone is spying on the 17th Aero Squadron. The men become convinced it is Lt. Klaus Ritter, an American of German descent.
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Fulfillment

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The Good Luck Piece

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Character(s): Buddy Wilson; Pete Richards
Synopsis: Buddy doesn't believe in good luck charms, but has one anyway.
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The Ultimate Weapon

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So Much More

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Spads Were Trump

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Character(s): Lieutenant Walt Muller; Jordan; Colonel Ernst Roegen; Burke; the Red Eagle
Synopsis: Lt. Muller is the best ace in the group, but he seems to be afraid of the German ace named the Red Eagle.
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One Way Hero

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[untitled]

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Self-portrait

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Bernard Krigstein

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Restoring "Slave Ship"

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Behind the Panels

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Crime, Horror, Terror, Gore, Depravity, Disrespect for Established Authority - and Science Fiction Too! The Ups and Downs of EC Comics

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The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library

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Grand Master of Comics!

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