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Issue: The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #24
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Title: The Martian Monster and Other Stories
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Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
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Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Inc.
On Sale Date: 01/23/2019
Volume: 24
Pages: 180
ISBN: 9781683961680
UPC/EAN: 978168396168052999
Price: $29.99 USD
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Content Items: 34 (22 stories, 1 cover)
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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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Kosmic Kamen

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"Something light, humorous, pretty women, a little sex, a little double entendre..."
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Experiment... in Death

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The Men of Tomorrow

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Captain Holly (death); Phelps (death); Professor Marvin Strand (death); inhabitants of the silent city (all die)
Am expedition, sans the native bearers who were too scared to continue on, becomes the first men to reach what they believe is the fabled Kador Valley. There they discover a strange, silent city, and one of its many inhabitants who does not speak, but is telepathic. The group is captured, but soon learn that their presence has unprecedented consequences.
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The Micro-Race!

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Story inspired by "Fessenden's Worlds" by Edmond Hamilton.
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The Trap of Time!

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Don Hartley (physicist, death); Professor Angus MacIntosh (Hartley's former college professor); Adele Hartley (Don's wife, death)
Professor MacIntosh attempts to dissuade his former pupil from building a time machine for the purpose of returning to the night of the accident that took his wife's life and change events in order to spare her life. The machine sends him back to 1946, but the attempt to save her fails.....then the professor suggests an alternative plan with unexpected consequences.
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The Eternal Man

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I Died Tomorrow!

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Fred Davis (University President); unnamed bookie; Ernest Pavlonis (villain, physicist)
Physicist Pavlonis seeks employment at a university, but is told by the President Davis of the university that the staff has no openings. Later on, the scientist calls the university head and tells him that he has invented a time machine and wants to prove it to the skeptic man. Experiencing time travel, Davis decides to use this invention to make a fortune on horse racing. But the scientist has his own ideas after Davis threatens to smash the machine if the physicist will not sell it to him.
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I Created a ... Gargantua!

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Second Childhood

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Dr. John Clayton (scientist); Betty Drake Clayton (Clayton's lab assistant, later wife)
Dr. Clayton has discovered how to halt the aging process through injections of hormones manufactured from the spleen. When his assistant tells the scientist of her love for him, he balks because he is twice her age. Then he gets the idea of treating himself with the hormone and all seems well until... he becomes a child in his wife's arms.
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The Man Who Was Killed in Time!

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Prediction of Disaster!

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Professor Henley Horton; unnamed Coogen (Dean of State University); unnamed Secretary of State University; John D. Pentport III; Ken (newspaper reporter)
Professor Horton discovers that the Beta Orion is going nova and about to explode... and does. Then he makes a startling discovery: one can determine when a star is about to explode by noting an excess of infra-red rays. He successfully proves that theory, then accidentally discovers that the Earth's sun is about to go nova and seeks to warn the world.
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Divide and Conquer

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... And Then There Were Two!

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Professor Dimiti Volham (mention only); unnamed soldiers; robots
American soldiers land on an atoll, ordered to remove any native inhabitants so that the U.S. government could conduct a hydrogen bomb test there. The natives have told the government that iron gods live on the atoll and soon the soldiers discover two of these "gods" (actually robots), which tell the men of their creator, and then are taken back to America.
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Something Missing!

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Come Into My Parlor

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Beyond Repair

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It Did'nt Matter

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The Martian Monster

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The Duplicates

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Reducing... Costs!

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A Timely Shock!

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Swipe of Fritz Leiber's "Nice Girl With Five Husbands"
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Sacrifice....

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I Had Two Husbands!

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romantic
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Jack Kamen

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Jack was always very jolly.
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Behind the Panels

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Biographies of Al Feldstein, Gardner Fox, Bill Gaines.
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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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M.C. Gaines was both a practical man...
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The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library

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Sci-fi classics from an EC Comics great!

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In Jack Kamen's first stories for Weird Science and Weird Fantasy...
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