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Issue: Weird Science #12
Publication Date: May 1950
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Issues: #12 of 4 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code
Publisher: FlagEC
Brand: EC An Entertaining ComicView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Fables Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 02/07/1950
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: 8 (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 cover and interior
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U.S.
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Format Notes:  
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #12 [1] published June 1950
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #1 published September 1992
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagNemi #17 published August 2004
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #1 published November 2006
as Fantastiche storie di suspense. Vi sfidiamo a leggere! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Colors were previously recorded as the work of Marie Severin, but it is unlikely that Severin had begun coloring at EC when this issue was colored (Cassell 2012, 33–34 and 171). The source previously cited by GCD may have been intended to refer to new colors done for Russ Cochran’s 1980 slipcased reprint of the series.
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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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SuspenStory Fans!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
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Pages: 1
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Lost in the Microcosm

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): A Fanta-Science SuspenStory!
Character(s): Karl; Professor Dreeben; Professor Einstadt (flashback)
First Line: This puny planet with its millions of inhabitants...
Synopsis: Karl visits Professor Dreeben and tells him of a Professor Einstadt he once worked for that perfected a shrinking solution. Accidentally, Karl subjects himself to the solution and begins shrinking, eventually reaching, momentarily, another civilization, where he shrinks from their view. He finally reaches another civilization, where Professor Dreeben exists and tells him the story....before he shrinks out of view again!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #5/1989 published January 1989
as Fortapt i mikrokosmos [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #1 published September 1992
as Lost in the Microcosm [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #1 published November 2006
as Perso nel microcosmo [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Swipe of the story "He Who Shrank" by Henry Hasse (first published in Amazing Stories for August 1936).
Cover story.

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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Dream of Doom

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): A Psycho-Science SuspenStory!
Character(s): Arthur Bristol (comic artist); Adelle Bristol (Arthur's wife); Dr. Froyd; Gill Baines (Arthur's publisher); Windsor (comic artist); Newton (comic artist); Bill Kurtz (comic artist, death)
First Line: How many of us have had dreams, so real...
Synopsis: Arthur Bristol is a man who is constantly dreaming... a man who never really knows when he is actually awake.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #5/1989 published January 1989
as Som en drøm [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #1 published September 1992
as Dream of Doom [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #1 published November 2006
as Sogno fatale [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Much of the story is told in a series of dreams (flashbacks).

It's easy to see that the Gill Baines (reverse the first initials) is Bill Gaines and Bill Kurtz is actually Harvey Kurtzman in this story; Johnny Craig also appears as a character.
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Murder in the 21st Century!

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): An Eerie-Science SuspenStory!
First Line: Life in the year 2050 was vastly different from what it had been a century ago.
Synopsis: A man tries to kill the man he thinks is cheating with his wife. It turns out it was a robot she had planned to surprise him with as a gift.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #1 published September 1992
as Murder in the 21st Century [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Text story with single panel illustration.
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Experiment... in Death

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: My name is Henry Fenton!
Synopsis: Two scientists experiment with reviving the dead after the subject has been deceased for 15 minutes. They test their experiments on a dog not realizing that after reviving from death, the subject has complete brain damage.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #1 published September 1992
as Experiment ... In Death [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #1 published November 2006
as Esperimento... di morte [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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By the Dark of the Moon

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: He lay sprawled in the middle of the rug, on his face.
Synopsis: A man kills his coworker and has his girlfriend back him up as an alibi. He tells the police that he was out for a moonlit stroll with her the night the murder happened. His story is debunked when the police tell him that a total lunar eclipse occurred that night making his moonlit stroll story a lie.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #1 published September 1992
as By The Dark of the Moon [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Text story with single panel illustration.
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"Things" from Outer Space!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): A Weird-Science SuspenStory!
First Line: They came from a satellite of Alpha Centauri...
Synopsis: A scientist and his assistant discover metal in the desert and deduce it's from a spacecraft from another galaxy. They encounter one of the aliens who looks just like a human save for a third eye hidden on its forehead. The alien reveals that his kind have infiltrated society and plan on taking over the planet.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #1 published September 1992
as Things from Outer Space! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #1 published November 2006
as "Cose" dallo spazio profondo [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7

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