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Issue: Weird Fantasy #14
Publication Date: July 1952
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Issues: #14 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: (not set)
Volume:
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 7 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
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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
Format Notes:  
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, science fiction
Synopsis: Astronauts repair their ship in space.
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In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #14 published August 1952
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #14 published January 1996
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Exile!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: Our story begins as a huge gleaming space-ship hurtles...
Synopsis: A couple of men are transporting a prisoner to a planet. It seems that on their Eden-like world, it was discovered that evil is caused by a brain abnormality and is heredity. Therefore through the years, they exile any person that might show these traits onto this strange planet. It's revealed that the planet these evil beings get exiled to is called Earth and the prisoner they are transporting is named Adolph Hitler!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #14 published August 1952
as The Exile! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #2 [Newsstand] published November 1991
as The Exile! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #14 published January 1996
as The Exile! [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.
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The Expert!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): "E.C. Quickie"
Character(s): Bill Gaines; Al Feldstein
First Line: The following "E.C. quickie" shows how your editors obtained...
Synopsis: EC Comics editors "Bill" Gaines and Albert Feldstein are asking an expert to tell them about Mars for a future story they are planning. When they don't believe the mans silly description of the planet they are shocked to find out he's really a martian.
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In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #14 published August 1952
as The Expert! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagComix: A History of Comic Books in America #[nn] published January 1971
as The Expert! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagComix: A History of Comic Books in America #[nn] published January 1971
as The Expert! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #2 [Newsstand] published November 1991
as The Expert! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #14 published January 1996
as The Expert! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.

Humor story.
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The Ad!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): "E.C. Quickie"
Character(s): Bill Gaines; Al Feldstein
First Line: Of course, we were only kidding in that first "E.C. quickie"!
Synopsis: Desperate to fill a blank page in an upcoming issue after an ad sponsor drops out, EC Comics editors Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein create a fake ad for a special trip to Mars. Years later they meet a man who thanks them for the ad as he was able to visit Mars and meet his four armed three eyed wife!
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In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #14 published August 1952
as The Ad! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagComix: A History of Comic Books in America #[nn] published January 1971
as The Ad! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagComix: A History of Comic Books in America #[nn] published January 1971
as The Ad! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #2 [Newsstand] published November 1991
as The Ad! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #14 published January 1996
as The Ad! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Disclose Notes: Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.

Humor story.
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Innovation

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: During World War III the allies find a way to protect their cities from enemy bombers by putting up a force field that destroys fuel tanks on aircraft. When they find out that the enemy invents a way to avoid this weapon, they are startled to find that they have been powering their aircraft not by fuel, but by huge rolled up elastic bands!
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In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #14 published August 1952
as Innovation [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #2 [Newsstand] published November 1991
as Innovation! [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Close Call!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Dr. Annette Beard; Dr. Granger (flashback); Roger Forbes (engineer, flashback)
First Line: Your name is Doctor Annette Beard!
Synopsis: Dr. Beard finds herself as the only living being still alive in the world after a nuclear explosion. She pauses to remember how things once were and how she blew chance after chance to make a better life for herself. Then while in an empty first class hotel she hears the phone ring. The man on the other line hangs up on her when he realizes it's the wrong number.
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In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #14 published August 1952
as Close Call! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #2 [Newsstand] published November 1991
as Close Call! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #6/1992 published January 1992
as Klokkene ringer for deg [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #14 published January 1996
as Close Call! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Corrected script credits and letterer credit by Craig Delich.

Much of the story is told in flashback.
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Mad Journey!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Rodney Simon (President of Crown Oil Company, rocket builder); Jeffreys (lab scientist, death); Alan Corlin (USAF scientist, death); Axel (Crown Oil executive); Mr. Buddins (Crown Oil executive)
First Line: My name is Rodney Simon!
Synopsis: One of Rodney Simon's lab workers at his company has discovered a way of refining high octane gasoline that produces certain gases, whose molecular structure is unknown.....but, when liquified, creates a new gas that, when mixed with oxygen, provides the force necessary to propel a rocket outside Earth's gravitational field. Although the Moon is the planned landing area, Simon decides Venus to be a better choice. After his ship crashes on the planet, he tells the human looking Venusians that he is from Earth. They think him mad and place him in a mental asylum.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #14 published August 1952
as Mad Journey! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #2 [Newsstand] published November 1991
as Mad Journey! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #6/1992 published January 1992
as En vanvittig ferd [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #14 published January 1996
as Mad Journey! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #3 published March 2013
as Mad Journey! [Story on Interior Page(s)]black and white reprint
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7

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