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Issue: Weird Science #20
Publication Date: July 1953
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Issues: #20 of 18 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagEC
Brand: EC An Entertaining ComicView Brand Images2
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On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume:
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 6 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): William M. Gaines
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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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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)
Inker(s): Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: Alone in space with fifty frozen dolls...
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #20 published August 1953
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #20 published June 1997
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagNemi #9 published January 2004
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #4 published September 2008
as In questo volume: Gli adattamenti delle storie di Ray Bradbury, maestro della science-fiction americana! [Illustration on Cover, Front]original cover
In Content Item: FlagWally Wood: Strange Worlds of Science Fiction #[nn] published January 2012
as Cosmic Cover Collection [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Loathsome!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
Penciller(s): Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)
Inker(s): Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Synopsis: A doctor sends a deformed mutant child that was the product of her father's exposure to atomic radiation to be brought up in an orphanage. The women of the orphanage dislike her because she displays poor behavior. One day the younger nurse comments to the older one that the girl is behaving herself recently and the older nurse recalls that all children receive a birthday party at ten years old and the girl must figure she is going to get one. The young woman asks if she is going to give the child one and the older woman states that it wouldn't be right to expect the other children to attend, so they'll just skip it in the mutant girl's case. They discover that the girl was spying on them and when she returns to her room she smashes the mirror. She's punished, and that evening the younger nurse sees the girl on the grounds stuffing notes into tree hollows. She assumes that she must be up to no good and informs the older woman. The following evening they confront the child demanding the note and the girl flees from them. She climbs up a tree branch overhanging the orphanage's spiked wall and loses her grip. As the note slips from the hand of the dying impaled child, the older woman picks it up. It says "To whoever finds this note - I love you."
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagNacht der vampiers #[nn] published January 1973
as Ontsnapt uit het gesticht [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagVault of Horror #2 [Direct Edition] published November 1991
as The Loathsome! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #20 published June 1997
as The Loathsome! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #4 published September 2008
as Abominevole! [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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Surprise Package

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Ray Bradbury; Al Feldstein (adaptation)
Penciller(s): Jack Kamen [as Kamen] (signed)
Inker(s): Jack Kamen [as Kamen] (signed)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Leonard Hill (mention only); robotic Leonard Hill (death); Martha (villain, death)
Synopsis: Martha was very suspicious of Leonard. Although she planned to kill him, she had this eerie feeling that something was different about him and she wondered if there were two of him. Soon she discovers that she was partially right; there were six of him!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagVault of Horror #2 [Direct Edition] published November 1991
as Surprise Package [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #20 published June 1997
as Surprise Package [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #4 published September 2008
as Pacco a sorpresa [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Letterer credit by Craig Delich.
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Progress

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagVault of Horror #2 [Direct Edition] published November 1991
as Progress! [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Reformers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
Penciller(s): Joe Orlando (signed)
Inker(s): Joe Orlando (signed)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagBild & Bubblas stora seriebok #[nn] published January 1989
as Reformatörerna [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagVault of Horror #2 [Direct Edition] published November 1991
as The Reformers [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #20 published June 1997
as The Reformers [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagNemi #29 published September 2005
as Reformatorene [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #4 published September 2008
as I Riformatori [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.
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50 Girls 50

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
Penciller(s): Al Williamson (signed)
Inker(s): Al Williamson; Frank Frazetta; Roy Krenkel
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): un-named General; Sid (death); Laura Masters (death); Wendy (villain)
Synopsis: Fifty men and fifty women are chosen to make a 100-year journey to a far-off solar system in order to inhabit it and continue the population process well into the future. Each volunteer would be quick-frozen so that they could be thawed out at the end of the journey and ready for their job, which is a process that could only be performed once. But one of the men, Sid, sees an opportunity of being able to enjoy one woman per year while on the trip.....unfortunately, his intended has different plans!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagTales of the Incredible #U2140 published March 1965
as 50 Girls 50 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEC Portfolio #3 published January 1973
as 50 Girls 50 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagVault of Horror #2 [Direct Edition] published November 1991
as 50 Girls 50 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #20 published June 1997
as 50 Girls 50 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagNemi #9 published January 2004
as Kald lidenskap [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagFoul Play! The Art and Artists of the Notorious E.C. Comics! #[nn] published January 2005
as 50 Girls 50 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science #4 published September 2008
as 50 ragazze 50 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #3 published March 2013
as 50 Girls 50 [Story on Interior Page(s)]black and white reprint
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7

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