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Issue: Weird Science #14
Publication Date: September 1950
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Issues: #14 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:
On Sale Date: 06/05/1950
Volume:
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: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is the publication date reported in U. S. Copyright Office filings.
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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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reprinted 17 times as Content Items in other Issues.
Some/all of Issue reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue:
FlagWeird Science #1 published November 2006 as I suoni da un altro mondo! [Story on Interior Page(s)] original title: The sound from another World
Some/all of Issue reprinted as/in 2 other Issues:
FlagWeird Science Annual #1 published January 1994
FlagWeird Science Annual #1 published January 1994
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #14 [3] published October 1950
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagI Classici Americani Fantascienza Horror #3 published May 1991
as Suspenstorie Fantastiche. Vi sfidiamo a leggere! [Illustration on Cover, Front]original cover
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #3 published March 1993
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
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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Destruction of the Earth

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: An Atomic Bomb test near Bikini Atoll goes horribly wrong and causes a chain reaction that knocks the Earth into the Sun destroying it.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #14 [3] published October 1950
as Destruction of the Earth! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #3 published March 1993
as Destruction of the Earth! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #1 published November 2006
as Distruzione della Terra! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Cover story.

Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin (see Indexer Notes for this issue’s cover, above).
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The Sounds from Another World!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): Harvey Kurtzman ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Professor Henry Sonotown; unnamed gardener; Martha Sonotown (Henry's wife); Doctor Ballview (neighbor of Henry and Martha); Flora Forner (Henry and Martha's neighbor)
Synopsis: As a gardener is about to trim a hedge, a professor stops him and tells him the story as to why he shouldn't do any trimming. It seems he developed a machine that could allow him to actually hear trees, flowers and other such vegetation, and that when anything happened to any of these things, they would cry out in pain!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #14 [3] published October 1950
as The Sounds from Another World! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagGeluiden uit een andere wereld #[nn] published October 1989
as Geluiden uit een andere wereld [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #3/1990 published January 1990
as Lyder fra en annen verden [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #3 published March 1993
as The Sounds from Another World! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Based on "The Sound Machine" by Roald Dahl.

Much of the story is told in flashback.

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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Failure

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: Professor Crandall creates an artificial Sun in his lab. When he creates a bigger one to show his colleagues, it destroys the entire town.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #14 [3] published October 1950
as Failure [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Machine from Nowhere

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Professor Donalson; Dave (inventor)
Synopsis: Professor Donalson is called over to his inventor-friend's home to view a device that Dave has created but doesn't even know what it is. He tells the professor that he had been working on a molecular wave theory and his dreams at night gave him the idea for the device.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #14 [3] published October 1950
as Machine from Nowhere [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #3 published March 1993
as Machine from Nowhere [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #1 published November 2006
as La macchina venuta dal nulla [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Story inspired by "The Mechanical Mice" by Maurice A. Hugi.

Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin (see Indexer Notes for this issue’s cover, above).
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The Eternal Man

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: The brilliant Dr.Einheim creates a living thinking robot with his face to carry on his research after he dies.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #14 [3] published October 1950
as The Eternal Man [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #3 published March 1993
as The Eternal Man [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #1 published November 2006
as L'uomo eterno [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin (see Indexer Notes for this issue’s cover, above).

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