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Issue: Weird Science #5
Publication Date: January 1951
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Issues: #5 of 18 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagEC
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Indicia Publisher: Fables Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 10/02/1950
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 7 (5 stories, 1 cover)
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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
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #16 [5] published February 1951
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #5 published September 1993
as [untitled] [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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Made of the Future!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: I remember the day it all began!
Synopsis: A man who gets dumped by his fiancee stumbles upon a group of travelers from the year 2150 who are sightseeing the 1950s. He accompanies them back to their time period and using their technology builds himself the perfect woman who he returns back to his time period with.
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In Content Item: FlagI Classici Americani Fantascienza Horror #3 published May 1991
as Creata nel futuro! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #5 published September 1993
as Made of the Future! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #1 published November 2006
as La donna del futuro! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin (see Indexer Notes for this issue’s cover, above).
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Zak; Albo; Professor von Kugon
First Line: They left Earth to escape atomic war...
Synopsis: A group of space travelers leave their own planet to visit a planet nine years away.....a planet that 500,000 years before was home to their own ancestors, and was plagued by constant warfare. When they land, they discover nothing has changed in all those years, as the planet faces yet another atomic war.
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In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #7/1991 published January 1991
as Tilbake! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #5 published September 1993
as Return [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #1 published November 2006
as Ritorno [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Cover story.

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): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: An old man with an abacus challenges the powerful super computer "Foto-Metritron-Tabulator" in a contest to see who can solve mathematical equations quicker.
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In Issue: FlagWeird Science #5 published September 1993
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Pages: 1
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters from Jim Parry, Don Fuller, and "Pedro, the Radioactive Child."
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The Last War on Earth

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): Harvey Kurtzman ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Professor Harlow (death); Arthur (the professor's assistant, death?); Katey Mulrooney; Mike Flanagan; Pat Flanagan; Joe (newspaper worker);
First Line: ...and now, let's tell you about...
Synopsis: Arthur is having a discussion with Professor Harlow, claiming that as long as man is alive on Earth, there will be wars. But the professor doesn't necessarily agree with that assertion. Arthur gives an example of how a group of people can band together to violently face a threat from the outside, and the professor conjectures that possibly a threat from outside the Earth would unite all nations together as one to ward off that threat, and possibly end war once and for all. That threat does come: from Mars!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagI Classici Americani Fantascienza Horror #3 published May 1991
as L'ultima battaglia sulla Terra [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #5 published September 1993
as The Last War on Earth [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #1 published November 2006
as L'ultima guerra sulla Terra [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: The masthead reads: "...and now, let's tell you about The Last War On Earth".

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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Killed in Time!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: The man who was
Synopsis: In the present, a man accidently runs over and kills himself from 14 hours in the future.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #3 [1988] published January 1988
as Mannen som ble drept i tide! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagI Classici Americani Fantascienza Horror #3 published May 1991
as Ucciso nel tempo! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #5 published September 1993
as Killed in Time! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagNemi #17 published August 2004
as Mannen som havnet i u-løkka! [Story on Interior Page(s)]2. translation
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #1 published November 2006
as L'uomo che fu ucciso in tempo! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Kamen's then five year old son "helped" the art by defacing it with childish scrawls. Kamen then held Bart's hand and guided it to retouch the art. Kamen felt Bart deserved art credit.

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

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