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Issue: Weird Science #6
Publication Date: March 1951
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Issues: #6 of 18 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagEC
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Fables Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 12/06/1950
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 7 (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: newsprint
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #17 [6] published April 1951
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagEC Portfolio #3 published January 1973
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #6 published December 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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Spawn of Venus

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Cranshaw; Baxter; Barnes; Crawford; John Whitley; Bertrum Whitley
First Line: The occupants of the space-ship huddled before the large astro-view-screen!
Synopsis: Astronauts on a trip to Venus bring an innocent looking flower back to Earth only to find out that when the flower blooms it releases a monster.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagEC Portfolio #3 published January 1973
as Spawn of Venus [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #6 published December 1993
as Spawn of Venus [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #2 published October 2007
as La stirpe di Venere [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEC Sampler - Free Comic Book Day #[nn] published May 2008
as Spawn of Venus [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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Man and Superman!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Niels Urey Vannevar (atomic physicist); Charlemagne Farbish (Niels's brother)
First Line: This is a story about Niels Urey Vannevar...
Synopsis: Niels is working on increasing the mass of the atom without changing its structure, but his brother is only interested in his body-building. Charlemagne does agree to go to Niels's lab, and while Niels steps out of the room, Charlemagne decides to expose himself to the rays of Niels's machine, which gives him tremendous strength, like that of a superman. Unfortunately, as Charlemagne expends his energy, he begins to tire and lose that strength and disappears, being burnt up in a burst of energy.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagEC Portfolio #4 published January 1973
as Man and Superman [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #5/1989 published January 1989
as Overmennesket [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #6 published December 1993
as Man and Superman! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #2 published October 2007
as Uomo e superuomo! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Marie Severin’s statement (1995) that “[Harvey] Kurtzman colored his own art, especially on covers...” 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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Dilemma

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: A sick man needs fermented liquids to survive and after being treated with experimental drugs, now causes everything he touches to turn into Moonshine.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #6 published December 1993
as Dilemma [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters from Don Fuller, Paul Gammon, Jerry Webb, Estelle Kurtzman, and Ken Johnson.
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Sinking of the Titanic!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: historical, science fiction
Character(s): George Seymore [also as George Temporal (death)] (British physicist); John Seymore (George's father, death, flashback); Mrs. Seymore (George's mother, death, flashback)
First Line: He went back in time to prevent the
Synopsis: After ten years work, a noted British physicist creates a time-traveling machine, intending to go back in time to prevent the sinking of the ill-fated ship, The Titanic. The reason: his late parents were aboard that vessel and saved his life by giving theirs. However, by strange quirk of fate, George causes the very disaster he went back in time to prevent, but also saved himself as a boy before he died saving him.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagI Classici Americani Fantascienza Horror #3 published May 1991
as L'affondamento del Titanic! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #6 published December 1993
as Sinking of the Titanic! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #2 published October 2007
as L'affondamento del Titanic! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin (see Indexer Notes for this issue’s cover, above).
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Divide and Conquer

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: As Gloria prepared the hypodermic...
Synopsis: A scientist finds out his wife is planning to kill him, so he injects her with a solution that causes her to undergo binary fission and shrink. Eventually there are over a thousand mini versions of her which he then stamps underfoot like ants.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #7/1991 published January 1991
as Splitt og hersk! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #6 published December 1993
as Divide and Conquer [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #2 published October 2007
as Dividi e conquista [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Inspired by "A Scientist Divides" by Donald Wandrei.

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

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