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Issue: Three Dimensional EC Classics #1
Publication Date: January 1954
 
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Issues: #1 of 1 Issue
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagEC
Brand: EC A 3-D Comic
Indicia Publisher: I. C. Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 1954
Volume:
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 7 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color cover; 3-D effects interior
Dimensions: Standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
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Format Notes:  
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Directions for Assembling Your Two Versatile E.C. 3-D Viewers

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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V-Vampires!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror, humorous
Character(s): Godiva; Godiva's kid brothers; Renfrew
Synopsis: A vampire goes on a date with a werewolf.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagMad #3 published January 1953
was V-Vampires! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: References "Vault of Horror" #9.
Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion.
Redrawn from the 6 page story in Mad (EC, 1952 series) #3 [not a reprint].
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The Monster from the Fourth Dimension

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Hank (a farmer); Willy (scientist, farmer's brother, death); blob (villain, death)
Synopsis: A farmer one day spots a living blob floating through the air, which attacks a cow and devours it. Then that blob disappears, only to reappear on many occasions. Hank gets his scientist brother involved, who figures the creature is from the 4th Dimension, and so builds a transporter to transport the creature back to that dimension. In attempting to do so, its costs Willy his life......but the creature is destroyed also.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagB. Krigstein Comics #[nn] published July 2004
as The Monster from the Fourth Dimension [Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagWeird Science #7 published May 1951
was It Was a Monster From the Fourth Dimension [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Redrawn and retitled (original title "It was a Monster from the Fourth Dimension" from the 8 page story in Weird Science (EC, 1951 series) #7 [not a reprint].

Script, art credits revised, colorist and letterer credits added by Craig Delich.

Some of the story is told in flashback.
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Frank Luke

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: war
Character(s): Lt. Frank Luke [aka the Balloon Destroyer] (WW1 American ace); Lt. Joe Wehner (WW1 American pilot, death); The French Army; The Germans (villains, some die)
Synopsis: The French are enraptured by the antics of American ace Frank Luke, a pilot who often disobeyed the orders of his superiors, yet racked up victory after victory in the air until that fatal day.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagFrontline Combat #13 published July 1953
was Frank Luke! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Colorist and letterer credits by Craig Delich.
Redrawn (and without the terminal exclamation point in the title) from the 7 page story in Frontline Combat (EC, 1951 series) #13 [not a reprint].
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Mr. Biddy... Killer!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Sidney Brackman (District Attorney); Emily Chester (Archie's wife, death); Mr. Biddy (figment of ASrchie's imagination); Archie Chester (villain)
Synopsis: Archie in on death row for the murder of his wife, yet he claims that a mysterious Mr. Biddy actually did the killing for Archie.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagCrime SuspenStories #5 published June 1951
was Mr. Biddy... Killer! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Redrawn from the 7 page story in Crime SuspenStories (EC, 1950 series) #5, originally drawn by Jack Davis [not a reprint].

The reprint, in The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library (Fantagraphics, 2012 series) #29 - Accidents and Old Lace and Other Stories (2021), was done in 2-D and was taken from the original proofs.

Much of the story is told in flashback.
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
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Letterer(s): ?
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: House ad for Three Dimensional Tales from the Crypt (1954).

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