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Issue: Weird Fantasy #8
Publication Date: July 1951
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Issues: #8 of 17 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagEC
Brand: EC An Entertaining ComicView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: I. C. Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 05/14/1951
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 10 (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
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Cover, Front
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, science fiction
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In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #8 published August 1951
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #8 published July 1994
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Look for This Seal...

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Announcement from the Association of Comics Magazine Publishers.
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The Origin of the Species!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: For the beginning of our story...
Synopsis: Two archeologist brothers are intent on discovering the origin of humans. Stanley believes the origin of man is on Earth, while Ernest believes space is the answer. Ernest goes on a expedition into space but the rocket goes through a time warp and the crew end up on the Earth's moon milions of years in the past. The moon is inhabited by ape like creatures who Ernest believes are the ancestors of man and brings two of them back to Earth. The ship fails to go back through the time warp and crashes on prehistoric Earth, where the creatures escape and will breed eventually creating humans.
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In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #8 published July 1994
as The Origin of the Species! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Letterer credit by Craig Delich.
Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.

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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It Didn't Matter

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: Nina and Arnold planned the perfect murder!
Synopsis: While working with a rich scientist who secretly invented a matter transporting machine, Arnold (his assistant) falls in love with his beautiful wife. The wife only married him for his money and they plan on killing him to be together. The wife decides to shoot him, then Arnold will teleport her through the machine miles away as an alibi. On the night of the murder, when he teleported her through the machine, electrical interference from a thunderstorm causes her to be horribly distorted when she materializes.
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In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #8 published July 1994
as It Didn't Matter [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 “The Origin of the Species!,” above).
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): Tales from the Crypt
Character(s): The Crypt-Keeper (inset); The Old Witch (inset); The Vault-Keeper (inset)
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Pages: 0.5
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Speed!

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, science fiction
Synopsis: The scientific community invests $10 billion building a Cobalt-Hydrogen engine that will allow ships to travel faster than light. After a rocket is tested, the scientists can't tell if it flew around the Earth or just moved a few yards.
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In Issue: FlagWeird Fantasy #8 published July 1994
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Voting results: 1. Breakdown 2. Come Into My Parlor 3. Seven Year Old Genius 4. Across the Sun!
Letters from Ed Moran, Warren Zykowski, Frank Carrol, and Nina Caldwell.
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The Slave Ship

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: It is a dark, moonless night in June of the year 1839!
Synopsis: In 1839, a group of slave runners capture slaves from Africa and plan to take them to America. When they encounter a coast guard ship, they cruelly dump the slaves overboard into the ocean still chained to each other to avoid being caught with their illegal cargo. Shortly thereafter, alien creatures capture the slave runners and take them into space. When they encounter a cosmic patrol ship, they cruelly dump the men overboard into the vacuum of space still chained to each other to avoid being caught with their illegal cargo.
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In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #8 published July 1994
as The Slave Ship [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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 “The Origin of the Species!,” above).

Cover story.
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The Enemies of the Colony

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Captain Vorkey (death); Cora Vorkey (the Captain's wife, death); General Mattson (death); Harvey Mattson (the General's son, death); Jimmy Vorkey (the Captain's son, death); Hydro-Files (alien creatures, many die); the Mokos (villains, alien creatures)
First Line: The G.C.A. (Galactic Colonization Authority) Rocket-ship...
Synopsis: Members of the G.C.A. land on a planet after seven years of travel, intent on making it their new home. There they discover that the planet is inhabited by a strange race called the Mokos and they have been bred by the colonists there. Also present are the Hydro-Files, considered vicious and dangerous. But the inhabitants soon learn how wrong they can be.
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In Content Item: FlagFlashback #1 published January 1971
as The Enemies of the Colony [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #8 published July 1994
as The Enemies of the Colony [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Script revision from Al Feldstein to Wood per "Spawn of Mars and Other Stories Illustrated by Wally Wood" added by Craig Delich.

Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin (see Indexer Notes for “The Origin of the Species!,” above).

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