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Issue: Weird Science #7
Publication Date: May 1951
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Issues: #7 of 18 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagEC
Brand: EC An Entertaining ComicView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Fables Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 02/02/1951
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 8 (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
Format Notes:  
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: A group of space explorers on an unknown planet.
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In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #7 published June 1951
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #7 published March 1994
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Look for this seal...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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It Was a Monster from the Fourth Dimension

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: It came from out of nowhere...
Synopsis: A dairy farmer is terrorized by a pulsating blob floating in the air. His scientist brother determines it's a creature from the fourth dimension and uses a machine to enter the dimension to destroy the creature at the cost of his own life.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThree Dimensional EC Classics #1 published January 1954
as The Monster from the Fourth Dimension [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #7/1991 published January 1991
as Monsteret fra den fjerde dimensjon [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagVault of Horror #3 published January 1992
as It Was the Monster From the Fourth Dimension [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #7 published March 1994
as It Was the Monster From the Fourth Dimension [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #2 published October 2007
as Era il mostro dalla quarta dimensione! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.
Inspired by "The Monster from Nowhere" by Donald Wandrei.

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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Something Missing!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: In this story you will find...
Synopsis: A scientist creates a brilliant machine called the "Physio-Chemical Decomposer and Re-Aligner". It allows him to dissolve a living creature and then reform them. When his beautiful assistant is dissolved and reformed into a statue, the statue is destroyed by the scientist's jealous wife. The scientist attempts to reform her using the broken pieces of the statue but during the process forgot a piece causing her to reform in a ghastly way.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagVault of Horror #3 published January 1992
as Something Missing! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #7 published March 1994
as Something Missing! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #2 published October 2007
as Il pezzo mancante! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.

Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin (see Indexer Notes for “It Was a Monster from the Fourth Dimension,” above).
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Miracle!

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: The hard-bitten old miner paused to wipe the sweat from his leathery forehead.
Synopsis: An old miner finds that he can create liquid uranium by chewing tobacco.
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In Content Item: FlagVault of Horror #3 published January 1992
as Miracle! [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #7 published March 1994
as Miracle! [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters from Robert L. Johnson, Jack MacAdie, and Wham, Bam, and Alakazam.
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... Gregory Had a Model-T!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Gregory Gearshift (death); Clem (narrator, boarding house owner); Harry (gas station attendant); Gregory's sister; Sheldon (Gregory's brother-in-law)
First Line: Now mind you!
Synopsis: Gregory maintained his residence in a boarding house and the light of his life was his Model-T.....a car that he literally loved. The years passed and Gregory grew much older, yet his feelings for the car never dimmed. One day, he was found unconscious behind the wheel and was taken home where Gregory's sister took charge of her brother's affairs. She sold all of Gregory's possessions to help pay the hospital bills, and the car was sold to his brother-in-law, Sheldon. Oddly enough, the car chased Sheldon everywhere he went, then, after Gregory died, it drove off Suicide Bluff!
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In Content Item: FlagVault of Horror #3 published January 1992
as ...Gregory Had a Model-T! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #7 published March 1994
as ... Gregory Had a Model-T! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #2 published October 2007
as ...Gregory aveva una Modello-T! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Story basically 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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The Aliens!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Honruh (death); Mandruh; Ben-Abuh (an Arab)
First Line: It was in the vast trackless desert wastes of the strange planet that they first met
Synopsis: Unknowingly, spaceship crews from the 2nd and 4th planets in the solar system meet by chance while exploring the 3rd planet, and a glitch in language makes each group retaliate. When the crews flee back to their home planets, each decides that the people of the 3rd planet pose a major threat to their own peace and security, and each decides to eliminate that planet before that can happen.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagI Classici Americani Fantascienza Horror #6 published August 1991
as Gli alieni! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagVault of Horror #3 published January 1992
as The Aliens! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #7 published March 1994
as The Aliens! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #2 published October 2007
as Gli alieni! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Plot and letterer credits by Craig Delich.

Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin (see Indexer Notes for “It Was a Monster from the Fourth Dimension,” above).

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