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Issue: Weird Fantasy #13
Publication Date: May 1952
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Issues: #13 of 17 Issues
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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: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 7 (5 stories, 1 cover)
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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
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, science fiction
Synopsis: Astronauts work on a planet while a huge red moon looms in the background.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #13 published June 1952
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #13 published October 1995
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The End!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: It began in the fall of 1952!
Synopsis: After a radioactive comet passes over Earth, the radiation causes every mammal to become sterile. In the future when humanity seems doomed to die off, two elderly scientists try a last ditch effort to save the human race. They plan on sending a time wave back into the past before the coming of the comet and bring humans to the present to procreate. They set up a time field at Grand Central Station and wonder why only men are coming into the future. It turns out the field was set in front of the men's washroom.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #3 [1988] published January 1988
as Slutten [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #1 published September 1991
as The End! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #13 published October 1995
as The End! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Inspired by Damon Knight's "Not With A Bang" and Miriam Allen deFord's "The Last Generation".
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The Trip!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Lon Masterson (scientist); Edith Fuller (Masterson's assistant); Henrietta Masterson (Lon's wife); Colonel Curtis
First Line: The idea was sheer madness...
Synopsis: Dr. Masterson is attempting to solve a problem for the Space Colonization Authority in regards as to how to get live animals to distant planets for colonists to use as food. He hits upon the only way possible: to quick freeze them for transport. When the doctor falls in love with his assistant (and his wife will not agree to a divorce), he decides to quick freeze Ellen and transport her to a far distant colony where both will remain forever. However before he can thaw her out, he accidentally drops her causing her to shatter into millions of pieces.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #1 published September 1991
as The Trip! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #13 published October 1995
as The Trip! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes: in The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) #8 (March 2014)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Corrected script credits and letterer credit by Craig Delich.
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Discovery!

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: The first impulses sounded like the clucking of a hen...
Synopsis: Beings are studying a strange planet through a huge telescope and witness that planet's inhabitants destroying their own world. They wonder who those "colossal idiots", "despicable lunatics", and "maniacs" were. It turns out the planet they were watching was called Earth!
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In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #1 published September 1991
as Discovery! [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Highly critical letter from Mrs. Arlene Grandon Phelan with long reply from "The Editors."
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Home To Stay!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: Prologue: the child's name is Jimmy... Jimmy Fawcett!
Synopsis: In the future, a wife and her young son are tired that the husband/father is constantly going on interplanetary space flights for work. While waiting for him to return, the son sees a falling star and makes a wish that his father would come home to stay for good. It turns out the falling star was actually his father who ejected from a damaged ship he was piloting and was free falling to Earth burning up in its atmosphere.
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In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #1 published September 1991
as Home to Stay! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagRay Bradbury Comics: Trilogy of Terror #1 published May 1994
as Home To Stay! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #13 published October 1995
as Home to Stay! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Swipe of Ray Bradbury's "Kaleidoscope" and "The Rocket Man"; this story led to the arrangement for EC to adapt Bradbury's stories
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Don't Count Your Chickens...

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: The boy's exclamation of delight echoes thriough the sunny Easter Sunday air...
Synopsis: During an Easter egg hunt, a young boy finds a strange egg. The egg communicates with him telepathically and asks him to take him to a spot no one will know about. The boy takes him to a secret cave where the egg hatches a cone shaped alien creature who demands the boy bring him meat. The boy does so but is eventually sent to summer camp by his parents. The starving alien (now gigantic) stalks across the countryside devouring livestock. The military eventually destroy it with flame throwers. The story ends with children all across America finding similar strange eggs during Easter egg hunts...
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In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #1 published September 1991
as Don't Count Your Chickens... [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #13 published October 1995
as Don't Count Your Chickens... [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7

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