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Issue: Weird Fantasy #22
Publication Date: November 1953
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Issues: #22 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: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 7 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Al Feldstein
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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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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Joe Orlando (signed)
Inker(s): Joe Orlando (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy, science fiction
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #5 published March 1992
as Weird Fantasy #22 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #22 published January 1998
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Silent Towns

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Ray Bradbury; Al Feldstein (adaptation)
Penciller(s): Reed Crandall (signed)
Inker(s): Reed Crandall (signed)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Walter Grippe; Genevieve Selsor
Synopsis: Walter surveys a little white silent town on the edge of a dead Martian sea, wondering what happened to all of its inhabitants. He suddenly hears a phone ringing, but he is too late to answer it. After this happens twice, he succeeds in answering a phone and finds a Miss Selsor on the other end, and he meets her, only to find that she is fat and ugly. Knowing that she is the only woman alive and he is the only man, he does the only thing he can: he goes back to the bachelor life!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #5 published March 1992
as The Silent Towns [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #22 published January 1998
as The Silent Towns [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: An adaptation of a Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles story.
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The Freaks

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot and script)
Penciller(s): Jack Kamen (signed)
Inker(s): Jack Kamen (signed)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): The Freaks [Bosco (the dog-faced boy, death); Mildred (the fat lady); Elasto (the rubber-skinned man); Aldo (the hairy ape-man); Tarpo (the living skeleton); rest unnamed]; Stanley Gilby (circus co-owner); Ned Smote (circus co-owner); Callon-X (man from the future)
Synopsis: The freaks at a circus side show are sick and tired of the stares of the crowds, their snickers, their groans of disgust.....and one decides to quit. But when the freak is found dead in his tent, the circus owners go in search for a replacement. They think they have found one.....but soon they find that the tables have turned on them.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #5 published March 1992
as The Freaks [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #22 published January 1998
as The Freaks [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Corrected script credits and letterer credit by Craig Delich.
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Public Service!

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #5 published March 1992
as Public Service! [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: 1/2 of the story is on each page of the centerfold (the other 1/2 of each page is house ads for Weird Science #22 and Picture Stories from the Bible, Science, and World History.
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Al Feldstein
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Cosmic Correspendence
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: No letters but information on joining The E.C. Fan-Addict Club.
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The Fossil

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: FlagIskalde Grøss #7/1991 published January 1991
as Fossilen! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #5 published March 1992
as The Fossil [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #22 published January 1998
as The Fossil [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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Derelict Ship

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
Penciller(s): Bernie Krigstein [as B. Krigstein] (signed)
Inker(s): Bernie Krigstein [as B. Krigstein] (signed)
Colorist(s): Marie Severin
Letterer(s): Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Captain Vance Kaye; Lt. Fielding; Captain Kenneth Kaye (K-75 pilot, Vance's father, death); Bert (K-75 crew member, death)
Synopsis: Captain Kaye and his crew spot a derelict rocket ship, the Y-75, and close in to investigate, and discover it has been floating out in space for over 20 years. Going aboard, they discover to their surprise that this 2-man vessel had skeletons of many people on board, so they begin reading the ship's log to determine why. The log tells that the ship needed repair and set down on unknowingly on Elba-II: an exile planet, and the prisoners take over the ship.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagHaunt of Fear #5 published March 1992
as Derelict Ship [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Fantasy #22 published January 1998
as Derelict Ship [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.

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