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Issue: The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #34
Publication Date: July 2023
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Issues: #34 of 37 Issues
Title: The Planetoid and Other Stories
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Publisher: FlagFantagraphics
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Indicia Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Inc.
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Volume: 34
Pages: 232
ISBN: 97816833967620
UPC/EAN: 978168396762053500
Price: $35.00 USD
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Content Items: 70 (45 stories, 2 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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The Planetoid and Other Stories

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The Planetoid and Other Stories

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Table of Contents

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Two Astronauts

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An Improbable Tale

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First Line: It's hard to believe it's been two decades
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Orlando Achieves Orbit

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First Line: I'd like to take this opportunity to express the gratitude
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Two spaceships

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A Mistake In Multiplication

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Genres: science fiction
First Line: The crew of the galaxy exploration rocket-ship stared in fascination...
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The Planetoid

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Genres: science fiction
First Line: This is what probably happened!
Synopsis: A group of space explorers find a small planetoid and go to investigate. They are startled by the insect-sized beings who live there and are then attacked by flying and stinging insect-sized objects. They flee. It turns out that it was Earth and those insects were humans and the flying objects were jet fighters.
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Not On the Menu

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First Line: Commander Harwood stared in horror at the set of three lights...
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Why Papa Left Home

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Character(s): Raymond Williams Jr; Doctor Vandeveer Hybolt; Martha Anders; Mr. Axel
First Line: My name is Raymond Williams, Jr.!
Synopsis: Raymond Williams Jr. is transported 25 years into the past where he discovers why his father left the family abruptly after he was born. Being hurled back into the present, he realizes that he was his own father.
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The Worm Turns

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Character(s): Captain Becker; Vaughn
First Line: Captain Becker moved through the rocketship...
Synopsis: Vaughn learns about cruelty to animals after the spaceship crew he's a part of crash lands on a gigantic world where they are tormented by one of the native creatures. A gigantic space worm.
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The Thing in the Jar

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Character(s): Mr. Michael Russel; Mr. Dorsey
First Line: The pond shimmered in the morning sunlight!
Synopsis: Scientists discover what has been killing everything in Mr. Dorsey's pond.
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The Monsters!

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Feature(s): A Science-Fiction SuspenStory
Character(s): Hinkel (scientist); Alex (scientist); Herman (scientist); Jennings (stenographer); two mutants
First Line: This science fiction story with its surprise ending should give you a jolt!
Synopsis: Aliens deposit their mutant births on Earth which, to them, appear as horrible monsters, but appear as regular human beings to the Earth men.
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Chewed Out!

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Character(s): Bill Gaines (cameo); Al Feldstein (cameo)
First Line: As far as the eye can see...
Synopsis: A simple minded farmer contacts aliens on his ham radio who plan to visit Earth. This causes the military to confiscate his equipment and his home so they can be there when the aliens arrive. The aliens talk about how they landed on Earth and are being destroyed by giant white objects perplexing everyone. When the Sergeant in charge of this operation bites down on something crunchy while eating a hotdog, he realizes that he was eating the ship. The aliens were microscopic and had landed in the Sauerkraut brine of a local hotdog vender.
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A Man's Job!

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First Line: Come in! There's still some time left!
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Say Your Prayers

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First Line: *Glun's attennae twitched nervously as his exclamation exploded in my brain!
Synopsis: A pair of human sized intelligent preying mantises come to Earth to study it and prepare for an invasion. When they see a bug collector's photo of his bug collection of many pinned preying mantis specimens, they flee back to their home world convinced that the Earth is populated by giants who will destroy them.
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Inspired by the story "Expedition" by Anthony Boucher.
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Don't Count Your Chickens...

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First Line: The boy's exclamation of delight echoes thriough the sunny Easter Sunday air...
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The Big Stand-Up!

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Feature(s): A Science-Fiction SuspenStory
Character(s): Bart Thompson (TV engineer); Jack (TV sound engineer); Lara
First Line: You'll be jarred by the startling wind-up to this science-fiction yarn!
Synopsis: A broadcast technician falls in love with a woman whose transmission he picks up from another planet, some eighty light years away. But when she comes to him in a rocketship, Bart discovers that she stands about 200 feet high!
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They Shall Inherit

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First Line: The screaming siren wailed its persistant warning!
Synopsis: A leak at a nuclear plant causes some of the rats to become intelligent. As a couple of scientists work on a time machine they discover that far into the future rats have become English speaking, clothes wearing, bipedal intelligent beings who have eradicated humans and cats.
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The Expert!

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Character(s): Bill Gaines; Al Feldstein
First Line: The following "E.C. quickie" shows how your editors obtained...
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The Ad!

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Feature(s): "E.C. Quickie"
Character(s): Bill Gaines; Al Feldstein
First Line: Of course, we were only kidding in that first "E.C. quickie"!
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Strictly Business!

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Feature(s): A Science-Fiction SuspenStory
Character(s): Dianne Masters (Alec's wife); unnamed Senator; Alec Craven (a robot)
Synopsis: In the 21st Century, marriage licenses must be renewed every three years, so a man pays a woman thirty thousand dollars to be his wife for three years, but both agree on no sex. She agrees, and over time, falls in love with him. At the end of the three years she tells him that she'll claim she's expecting a child and the license will automatically renew. But he tells her that she could not be expecting a child and reveals he is a robot, and that he only wanted a wife during the past three years for crucial business negotiation appearances.
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Bum Steer!

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First Line: The cowboy rolled over in his blanket and opened his sleepy eyes!
Synopsis: A group of humans are captured by grotesque looking horse-like aliens who take them to their home world. The aliens want the humans to eat as much as possible. One of the captured humans is a cowboy who warns the others about how they are being treated like livestock before the slaughter. The others don't believe him until they are coralled into a room...
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Revulsion!

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First Line: It was an old ship!
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What Fur?!

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Feature(s): A Science-Fiction SuspenStory
Character(s): Emile Le Doux (a furrier); Henri (the furrier's assistant, death); Captain George Limpfort (rocket transporter); Emma Limpfort (George's wife)
First Line: Here is a science-fiction yarn with sheer, stark terror in its electrifying finish!
Synopsis: Captain Limpfort is hired by a furrier to fly him to a planet in another Solar System in order for the furrier to trap and skin skunks, which he makes into fashion apparel. They soon learn that the planet is inhabited by aliens who skin humans for their pelts!
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The People's Choice!

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First Line: Suddenly, a hush fell over the crowded television studio!
Synopsis: Sick of the lousy candidates for the upcoming election, people across America vote for the alligator handpuppet "Allie" from the popular "The Cuckoo, Fan, and Allie Show" to be president. It turns out that "Allie" is a small parasitic alligator creature fused onto the hand of his puppeteer who leads an invasion of similar creatures to take over humanity.
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Mass Meeting!

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First Line: The 'Uranium Mining Company's' martian refineries lay like some petrified monster...
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The Green Thing!

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First Line: Outside the barn, the first grey streaks of dawn...
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Not So Tough!

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Feature(s): A Science-Fiction SuspenStory
Character(s): Lieutenant Robert Arden (Astro-Navigator, later Rocket-Man 3rd Class, death); Sergeant Coogan (ship crewman, death); Seeley (crewman, death); Vice-Commander Philip Forbes (death); Commander Horace Bergman (villain, death)
First Line: The wind-up to this science-fiction yarn should give you quite a jolt...!
Synopsis: A space commander who is as tough as nails on his crew is reduced to soft putty in the grip of a large gravitational force.
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Flying Saucer Report Report

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First Line: In 1954, America was in the throes of a full-scale flying saucer craze.
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UFO

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Flying Saucer Report

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About This Report

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Was This "Fairly Heavy Body" a Flying Saucer?

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First Line: Early in May, 1952...
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The Eastern Airlines Case [Project Saucer Case No. 144]

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First Line: In the official report of the studies made by Air Materiel Command...
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The Gorman-Fargo, N.D., Case

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First Line: The April, 1949 'project saucer' report also stated...
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The Mantell-Godman Case [Project Saucer Case Number 33]

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First Line: The project saucer report of April 27, 1949 mourned...
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The Muroc Air Force Base Case [Project Saucer Case Number 1]

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First Line: The 'project saucer' report of April, '49...
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The United Air Lines Emmett, Idaho Case [Project Saucer Case No. 10]

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First Line: On July 4th, 1947...
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Was This The Answer?

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First Line: On December 9, 1949...
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The Dec. 27, 1949 Release

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First Line: On December 27, 1949...
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1950 Sightings: The Chicago and Southern Airlines-Stuttgart, Arkansas Sighting

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The 1950 Hamilton Air Force Base, California Case

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The Rev. Ross Vermillion-Kingman, Kansas Case

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First Line: A United Press dispatch dated June 30, 1950...
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1951 Sightings: The Rogers-Ballard Mitchell Air Force Base Case

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First Line: An Associated Press dispatch...
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The Kaliszewski-Moore Statements

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First Line: A U.P. dispatch, dateline Minneapolis, Minn...
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Footnote on C. B. Moore [Project Saucer Case No. 122]

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1952 Sightings: The Secretary Kimball Case

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First Line: Early in 1952...
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The Utah Pictures

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The Indianapolis Case

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First Line: The Indianapolis Times of Sunday, July 13, 1952...
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The Nash-Fortenberry Case

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First Line: A U.P. dispatch, datelined Miami, Fla., July 15, 1952...
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The River Edge, N.J. Case

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Saucers Over Washington, D.C.

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The 1952 Hamilton A.F.B. Case

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First Line: The San Francisco Chronicle of Aug. 4, 1952 carried this story...
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Recent Developments

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First Line: There were hundreds upon hundreds of more sightings during the rest of 1952 and 1953...
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To Summarize This Report, E.C. Asks the Following Questions of the United States Air Force:

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To Summarize This Report, E.C. Asks the Following Questions of the United States Air Force:

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Original Ads from Weird Science-Fantasy (1954) #26

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Space ships

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Hi! I got some real first-hand material for my next job!

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Joe Orlando

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First Line: Shortly after Joe Orlando started in comics
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Alien Monster

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Behind the Panels

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Astronaut Zapping Another Astronaut

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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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Judgement Day for Earth

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Every Ray Bradbury Story in One Volume!

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