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Issue: Weird Science-Fantasy #23
Publication Date: January 1954
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Issues: #23 of 7 Issues
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Publisher: FlagEC
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Indicia Publisher: Fables Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 02/01/1954
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.15 USD
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Content Items: 7 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: First issue. Combination of and continued from Weird Science (EC, 1951 series) #22 (November/December 1953) and Weird Fantasy (EC, 1951 series) #22 (November/December 1953).
Date is publication date in Library of Congress copyright record (registered in 1979).
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagFlashback #1 published January 1971
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagEC Portfolio #6 published January 1977
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]artwork only
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science-Fantasy #1 published November 1992
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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
Disclose Notes: This new title would have redesigned covers that featured a rocket taking off on the left side, the title being separate from the art on top, and the art taking up the bottom right portion of the cover.
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The Children

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Ellen Greyson; David Greyson; Richie; Dr. Garden
First Line: Ellen Greyson stood beside her husband, David...
Synopsis: When colonists on a new world give birth, their babies are taken away from them by the government. This is to assure the children are raised properly. Originally it was intended for a short time but the time period kept getting extended. The mothers on the colony get fed up with not being able to see their children and form a mob to storm the government building. It is then revealed that the babies are born mutants due to the environment of the world. Despite their physical deformities, the mothers reclaim their children and love them anyway.
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In Content Item: FlagIskalde Grøss #2/1992 published January 1992
as Barna [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science-Fantasy #1 published November 1992
as The Children [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Fish Story

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Zlafg (alien); Cxargx (alien)
First Line: Prologue: the ship was a silver giant.
Synopsis: Humanoid fish beings on a distant aquatic planet are trying to find a way to leave their doomed world. They then see an Earth vessel approach. They attack it by filling it with water and drowning the crew inside. They take the ship for themselves so they can take it back to Earth in hopes that the water areas on it will provide a new home for their people. Once they land in one of Earth's oceans they die. Why? Because the oceans of Earth are salt water and they are beings from a world of fresh water.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science-Fantasy #1 published November 1992
as Fish Story [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #3 published March 2013
as Fish Story [Story on Interior Page(s)]Reprinted in black and white.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Editorial; letters from Walter N. Webb, Elisabeth M. Clark, Tad Duke, T.E. & Julian May Ditky.
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Ninth Wonder

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: His neighbors considered Dr. Hugo Clavier a mild sort of madman...
Synopsis: A man creates a tree that can grow money. Unfortunately for him, it only grows obsolete confederate money.
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In Content Item: FlagWeird Science-Fantasy #1 published November 1992
as Ninth Wonder [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Flying Machine

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: drama, science fiction
Character(s): Emperor Yuan; Yuan's servant; Ho (the flying man, death)
First Line: In the year A.D. 400...
Synopsis: In 5th century China, Emperor Yuan discovers that a villager has learned how to create a flying machine; A large kite with functioning wings. Worried that an invention like that could fall into the hands of an enemy allowing them to fly over the Great Wall of China that protects the kingdom, he has the inventor executed and his creation destroyed.
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In Issue: FlagB. Krigstein #1 published January 2002
In Content Item: FlagEC Portfolio #2 published January 1972
as The Flying Machine [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Ray Bradbury Chronicles #2 published July 1992
as The Flying Machine [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWeird Science-Fantasy #1 published November 1992
as The Flying Machine [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagGespenster Geschichten #969 published January 1993
as Die Flugmaschine [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 The Flying Machine [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMessages in a Bottle: Comic Book Stories by B. Krigstein #[nn] published April 2013
as The Flying Machine [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Adaptation of the Ray Bradbury story first published in the 1953 book "The Golden Apples of the Sun".
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Fair Trade

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
First Line: The shaggy-haired savage chief stood beside the dying fire...
Synopsis: After a nuclear holocaust, a tribe of cavemen (who descended from the humans before the cataclysm destroyed the world) encounter spacemen who offer to buy their land with beads and blankets. The cavemen agree and trade what was once Manhattan Island to the spacemen. The spacemen vow to either destroy the cavemen or put them on reservations once they begin to take over the area.
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In Content Item: FlagWeird Science-Fantasy #1 published November 1992
as Fair Trade [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Loosely based on "By the Waters of Babylon" by Stephen Vincent Benét.

The story is a commentary on how the colonists dealt with the Native Americans.

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