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Issue: Weird Fantasy #17
Publication Date: January 1951
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Issues: #17 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: 11/08/1950
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: 10 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is the publication date reported in the U. S. Copyright Office filings.
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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
Format Notes:  
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, science fiction
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In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #17 [5] published February 1951
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #5 published October 1993
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letterer credit by Craig Delich.

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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[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): Vault of Horror
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Child of Tomorrow!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Jerry Gordon (mining engineer); Linda Gordon (Jerry's wife, death, in flashback); Tim (mining engineer, death, in flashback); Bill (mining engineer, death, in flashback); Jerry and Linda's murant son (death)
First Line: This is the way it began...
Synopsis: A mining engineer, 750 feet underground in a mine, feels the ground shaking and eventually emerges from it to discover massive destruction caused by a series of atom bombs dropped on the area. He learns in coming days that the nation had responded with hydrogen bombs, destroying the enemy in just four days. What he soon learned to his horror that all other people were being mutated by the radiation from the war... including his own child.
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In Content Item: FlagTales of the Incredible #U2140 published March 1965
as Child of Tomorrow! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #5 published October 1993
as Child of Tomorrow! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Some of the story occurs in flashback.

Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin (see Indexer Notes for this issue’s cover, above).
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The Time Machine and the Shmoe!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Donald Yubyutch [aka a shmoe] (lab cleaning man); Professor Serutane; unnamed King
First Line: And now we bring you the story of Donald Yubyutch...
Synopsis: Professor Serutane creates a time-top machine and Donald volunteers to go along with the professor, who promptly turns him down. But, filled with heroic-like tendencies, Donald goes back in time in the machine all by himself into the 9th Century, where he is pronounced mad and assigned cleaning duties.
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In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #5 published October 1993
as The Time Machine and the Shmoe! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.

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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SuspenStory Fans!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Crime SuspenStories
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin (see Indexer Notes for this issue’s cover, above).
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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: fantasy, science fiction
Character(s): Markson; unnamed Flight Engineer
Synopsis: A ship heading for Jupiter experiences gyro problems, passes by Jupiter and is marooned in space with no contact in the entire solar system.
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Pages: 1
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.5
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (spot illustration)
Inker(s): ? (spot illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters from Nancy Peterson, Eddie Killeen, and Louis Coale.
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Deadlock!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): unnamed ship's Captain (death); unnamed ship's Sergeant (death); ship's crew (all die); alien ship creatures [Hvah; Zkoh; Broh] (all die)
First Line: This was a chance encounter in space..
Synopsis: Two years in outer space and the Earth crew spots a strange-looking craft leerily approaching it. They communicate via an automatic brain machine and their mistrust of one another's intentions becomes clear, so they end up destroying each other.
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In Content Item: FlagFlashback #1 published January 1971
as Deadlock! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #5 published October 1993
as Deadlock! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Source for plot credit is “Against the Grain” (Stewart 2003, 40).

Story inspired by "First Contact" by Murray Leinster.

Script revision from Al Feldstein to Wood by Craig Delich. Source for the Wood script credit "Spawn of Mars and Other Stories" (2015).

Cover story.

Letterer credit by Craig Delich.

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

Stewart, Bhob. 2003. Against the Grain. In Against the Grain: MAD Artist Wallace Wood, ed. Bhob Stewart, 6–51. Raleigh: TwoMorrows Publishing.
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Prediction of Disaster!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Professor Henley Horton; unnamed Coogen (Dean of State University); unnamed Secretary of State University; John D. Pentport III; Ken (newspaper reporter)
First Line: The world laughed at the Professor's...
Synopsis: 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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In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #5 published October 1993
as Prediction of Disaster! [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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