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Issue: Weird Fantasy #13
Publication Date: May 1950
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Issues: #13 of 5 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code
Publisher: FlagEC
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: I. C. Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 03/07/1950
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code
Content Items: 9 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is the publication date reported in the U. S. Copyright Office filing.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Am I Man or Machine?

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, science fiction
Character(s): Roger Harvey's brain; Dr. Carl Walker; Professor Hugo Nelson
First Line: Roger Henry, we have kept your brain alive for five months since your fatal accident!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #13 [1] published June 1950
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagEC Portfolio #2 published January 1972
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #1 published September 1990
as Weird Fantasy [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #1 published October 1992
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letterer credit by Craig Delich.

Cover features a scene from the first story.
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[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): Vault of Horror
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Cover title taken from the second story, from which it is based.
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Am I Man or Machine?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): A Weird-Science SuspenStory
Character(s): Roger Harvey (a robot with Harvey's brain, Diane's former love interest); Diane [aka "Butterfly"]; Professor Hugo Nelson (in flashback); Dr. Carl Walker (Nelson's assistant, in flashback); Bob (Diane's husband, mention only); Kenneth (young boy, in flashback)
First Line: This was the house!
Synopsis: Diane is visited one night by her one-time suitor, Roger, who had been killed many years previously in a car accident......but whose brain was kept alive by two scientists and placed in a robotic body.
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In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #1 published September 1990
as Am I Man or Machine? [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #1 published October 1992
as Am I Man or Machine? [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.

Much of the story is told in flashback.

Cover story.

Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin, but it is unlikely that Severin had begun coloring at EC when this issue was colored (Cassell 2012, 33–34 and 171).
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Reference:

Cassell, Dewey, with Aaron Sultan. 2012. Marie Severin: The Mirthful Mistress of Comics. Raleigh: TwoMorrows Publishing.
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Only Time Will Tell

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): An Eerie-Science SuspenStory
Character(s): Steve Dorner (scientist/inventor); Dan (Steve's assistant); scientist from the future [Steve Dorner]
First Line: For Steve Dorner, the unimaginable depths of this mysterious black hole...
Synopsis: Steve is experimenting with building a "temperal resonance" machine when he is visited by a man from the future, who escorts the scientist into the far future to help with the actual machine in use. He is forced to return to the present, but takes with him part of the machine's diagram. Over the next decade plus, Steve tries to build the machine....and succeeds.....with an unexpected horrible realization in the process!
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In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #1 published September 1990
as Only Time Will Tell [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #1 published October 1992
as Only Time Will Tell [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Script revision from Feldstein ? to Gaines (co-plot) and Feldstein co-plot and script, and letterer credit by Craig Delich.

Script and plot addition revisions courtesy of Bill Mason as found in "Spawn of Mars" hardcover by Fantagraphics.

Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin (see Indexer Notes for story “Am I Man or Machine?,” above).
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Year of the Flood!

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (spot illustration)
Inker(s): ? (spot illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, fantasy, science fiction
Character(s): Emergency Water Committee; jet plane pilots
Synopsis: Meeting in the nation's capital, the Emergency Water Committee was trying to find a way to deal with the terrible drought facing the country. A uniformed man believed he had the solution: to bombard the isolated cumulus clouds with silver-iodine pellets. The only problem was that the solution worked.....too well!
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In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #1 published October 1992
as Year of the Flood! [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Men of Tomorrow

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see note)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Captain Holly (death); Phelps (death); Professor Marvin Strand (death); inhabitants of the silent city (all die)
First Line: In the unexplored valley of Kador...
Synopsis: An 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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In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #1 published September 1990
as The Men of Tomorrow [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #1 published October 1992
as The Men of Tomorrow [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin (see Indexer Notes for story “Am I Man or Machine?,” above).
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[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Picture Stories From...
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Picture Stories from American History, Science, World History, the Bible.
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Invasion!

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, fantasy, science fiction
Character(s): Edward J. Stanhope (reporter); Benson Tate (scientist, death); Marvin Corliss (scientist, death)
Synopsis: An expedition makes its way into the atomic bombed Baluku Atoll, which now has grotesque, monstrous sized jungle growth springing up all over.....and another, more deadly danger: jungle insects!
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In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #1 published October 1992
as Invasion! [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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...Trip into the Unknown

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): A Fanta-Science SuspenStory
Character(s): scientific expedition [Professor Oppenheim; rest unnamed]; Eric; giant people (many die)
First Line: The time is D-20...
Synopsis: A crew blasts off toward their destination: Planet X, and, once they land, discover the remains of a once well-developed civilization. They discover a library and remove one of the books, then are suddenly attacked by giant people, and blast off for home. What they later discover in the book is that the planet that they just visited was called: the Earth!
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In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #1 published September 1990
as ... Trip into the Unknown [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #1 published October 1992
as ...Trip Into the Unknown [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion. Previous indexer had Al Feldstein and Harvey Kurtzman.

Marie Severin’s statement that “[Harvey] Kurtzman colored his own art, especially on covers...” (1995) suggests that Kurtzman colored stories that he drew, albeit perhaps less consistently than he colored his cover art.
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References:

Cassell, Dewey, with Aaron Sultan. 2012. “The Artists of EC Comics” (reprinting Severin 1995). In Marie Severin: The Mirthful Mistress of Comics. 46–47. Raleigh: TwoMorrows Publishing.

Severin, Marie (John Province, transcriber [uncredited]). 1995. “Mostly About Color.” In CFA-APA 36, January.

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