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Issue: EC Archives: Weird Science #1
Publication Date: January 2006
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Issues: #1 of 3 Issues (4 Printings)
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Publisher: FlagGemstone
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Indicia Publisher: Gemstone Publishing
On Sale Date: 10/25/2006
Volume: 1
Pages: 220
ISBN: 9781888472585
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $49.95 USD
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Content Items: 50 (32 stories, 1 cover)
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Binding: hardcover with dust jacket
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Acknowledgements

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Foreword

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Lost in the Microcosm

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Feature(s): A Fanta-Science SuspenStory!
Character(s): Karl; Professor Dreeben; Professor Einstadt (flashback)
Synopsis: Karl visits Professor Dreeben and tells him of a Professor Einstadt he once worked for that perfected a shrinking solution. Accidentally, Karl subjects himself to the solution and begins shrinking, eventually reaching, momentarily, another civilization, where he shrinks from their view. He finally reaches another civilization, where Professor Dreeben exists and tells him the story....before he shrinks out of view again!
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Dream of Doom

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Feature(s): A Psycho-Science SuspenStory!
Character(s): Arthur Bristol (comic artist); Adelle Bristol (Arthur's wife); Dr. Froyd; Gill Baines (Arthur's publisher); Windsor (comic artist); Newton (comic artist); Bill Kurtz (comic artist, death)
Synopsis: Arthur Bristol is a man who is constantly dreaming... a man who never really knows when he is actually awake.
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Murder in the 21st Century!

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Feature(s): An Eerie-Science SuspenStory!
Synopsis: A man tries to kill the man he thinks is cheating with his wife. It turns out it was a robot she had planned to surprise him with as a gift.
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Experiment... in Death

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Synopsis: Two scientists experiment with reviving the dead after the subject has been deceased for 15 minutes. They test their experiments on a dog not realizing that after reviving from death, the subject has complete brain damage.
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By the Dark of the Moon

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Synopsis: A man kills his coworker and has his girlfriend back him up as an alibi. He tells the police that he was out for a moonlit stroll with her the night the murder happened. His story is debunked when the police tell him that a total lunar eclipse occurred that night making his moonlit stroll story a lie.
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"Things" from Outer Space!

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Feature(s): A Weird-Science SuspenStory!
Synopsis: A scientist and his assistant discover metal in the desert and deduce it's from a spacecraft from another galaxy. They encounter one of the aliens who looks just like a human save for a third eye hidden on its forehead. The alien reveals that his kind have infiltrated society and plan on taking over the planet.
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A Man with a Plan

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The Flying Saucer Invasion

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The Flying Saucer Invasion

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Synopsis: The Secretary of Defense debunks numerous people across America who have claimed to have seen a flying saucer, not realizing that a wave of flying saucers are targeting Earth at that very moment.
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The Meteor Monster

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Character(s): Bill Manning; Edna Manning (Bill's wife); Charlie (blind man); King (Charlie's seeing-eye dog); Hank; alien creature (villain, death)
Synopsis: One evening a farm couple are disturbed when a meteor suddenly plunges to Earth on their property. When Bill finds the meteor, a strange creature emerges from it and hynotizes the man, and forces him to take it to his home, where it hynotizes the wife as well. In fact, everyone who comes into contact with the alien creature falls under its spell....that is except one, who is blind, and whom the being considers dangerous to him.....with good reason!
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Experiment

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Synopsis: Physicists have developed a powerful ray that they hope can reach the moon. The problem is, the ray is so powerful, it locks onto the moon and starts pulling it towards the Earth!
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The Micro-Race

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Synopsis: A recluse scientist creates a miniature race and watches as they evolve. When they reach the point of developing powerful weapons for war, they destroy themselves by blowing up their World.
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Disclose Notes: The basic premise and some plot points are taken from Theodore Sturgeon's story "Microcosmic God", published in Astounding Science Fiction, April 1941.
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Sands of Time

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Synopsis: A mysterious growing wall of sand appears near an orchard in South Carolina in 1886. 100 years later in 1986, it has almost completely engulfed the United States.
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Keeping the Presses Rolling

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---The Man Who Raced Time

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Character(s): Bruce Dupont; Christine; Julius Quantum (villain, death)
Synopsis: Bruce and Julius are vying for the honor of becoming the new Chairman of the Physics Department, and Bruce wins out. But Julius is very bitter and storms back to his lab, musing that any scientist who has created an invention like the Spherical Accelerator should have had the job. Julius uses the machine on himself, with success. But when he discovers that Bruce and Christine are to be wed that very afternoon, he plots a "special" revenge upon the two, but it backfires with tragic results.
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The Torch Is Passed

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Destruction of the Earth

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Synopsis: An atomic bomb test near Bikini Atoll goes horribly wrong and causes a chain reaction that knocks the Earth into the Sun destroying it.
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The Sounds from Another World!

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Character(s): Professor Henry Sonotown; unnamed gardener; Martha Sonotown (Henry's wife); Doctor Ballview (neighbor of Henry and Martha); Flora Forner (Henry and Martha's neighbor)
Synopsis: As a gardener is about to trim a hedge, a professor stops him and tells him the story as to why he shouldn't do any trimming. It seems he developed a machine that could allow him to actually hear trees, flowers and other such vegetation, and that when anything happened to any of these things, they would cry out in pain!
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Disclose Notes: Based on "The Sound Machine" by Roald Dahl.

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Failure

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Synopsis: Professor Crandall creates an artificial Sun in his lab. When he creates a bigger one to show his colleagues, it destroys the entire town.
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Machine from Nowhere

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Character(s): Professor Donalson; Dave (inventor)
Synopsis: Professor Donalson is called over to his inventor-friend's home to view a device that Dave has created but doesn't even know what it is. He tells the professor that he had been working on a molecular wave theory and his dreams at night gave him the idea for the device.
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The Eternal Man

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Synopsis: The brilliant Dr. Einheim creates a living thinking robot with his face to carry on his research after he dies.
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A "New Trend" in Comics

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Panic!

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Synopsis: An alien invasion hoax is being broadcast on the radio, while aliens from Jupiter are invading at the same time. Listeners think the real invasion is part of the show. This story was inspired by Orson Welles' 1938 broadcast of The War of the Worlds. The radio broadcaster in this story is named Carson Walls.
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The Radioactive Child!

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Character(s): Luis Martinez (death); Rosa Martinez (Luis' wife, death); Pedro Martinez (Luis and Rosa's son); Argenta President Perez (villain, dictator, death); Garcia (villain, Argenta's Propaganda Minister, death); General Diego (villain, death)
Synopsis: Luis and Rosa are aboard their fishing boat, having survived the atomic bomb explosion.....but both were affected by the harmful radiation. Luis is dying and disappointed that he won't live to see the birth of their child. Somehow, however, Rosa survived, making it back to their home in Argenta and giving birth to a boy, Pedro. Knowing her days are numbered, she takes Pedro to the President's office, but passes away before she can see him. The President soon discovers this young child, due to radiation, has become a genius, and is made the new Prime Minister of the nation.
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Disclose Notes: This story picks up at the moment the story, "Atomic Bomb Thief" (Weird Fantasy #14), leaves off.
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Robots!

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Synopsis: A man creates an army of robots he hopes will help him conquer the world, but they turn on him instead.
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House, in Time!

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Synopsis: A couple rent a home whose back door leads into the prehistoric past.
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Gargantua!

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Synopsis: A scientist helps a puny man grow tall by manipulating his pituitary gland. The procedure backfires and causes him to grow uncontrollably, eventually growing to be 700 feet tall!
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Made of the Future!

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Synopsis: A man who gets dumped by his fiancee stumbles upon a group of travelers from the year 2150 who are sightseeing the 1950s. He accompanies them back to their time period and using their technology builds himself the perfect woman who he returns back to his time period with.
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Return

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Character(s): Zak; Albo; Professor von Kugon
Synopsis: A group of space travelers leave their own planet to visit a planet nine years away.....a planet that 500,000 years before was home to their own ancestors, and was plagued by constant warfare. When they land, they discover nothing has changed in all those years, as the planet faces yet another atomic war.
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Progress

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Synopsis: An old man with an abacus challenges the powerful super computer "Foto-Metritron-Tabulator" in a contest to see who can solve mathematical equations quicker.
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The Last War on Earth

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Character(s): Professor Harlow (death); Arthur (the professor's assistant, death?); Katey Mulrooney; Mike Flanagan; Pat Flanagan; Joe (newspaper worker)
Synopsis: Arthur is having a discussion with Professor Harlow, claiming that as long as man is alive on Earth, there will be wars. But the professor doesn't necessarily agree with that assertion. Arthur gives an example of how a group of people can band together to violently face a threat from the outside, and the professor conjectures that possibly a threat from outside the Earth would unite all nations together as one to ward off that threat, and possibly end war once and for all. That threat does come: from Mars!
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Killed in Time!

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Synopsis: In the present, a man accidently runs over and kills himself from 14 hours in the future.
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Disclose Notes: Kamen's then five year old son "helped" the art by defacing it with childish scrawls. Kamen then held Bart's hand and guided it to retouch the art. Kamen felt Bart deserved art credit.
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Spawn of Venus

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Character(s): Cranshaw; Baxter; Barnes; Crawford; John Whitley; Bertrum Whitley
Synopsis: Astronauts on a trip to Venus bring an innocent looking flower back to Earth only to find out that when the flower blooms it releases a monster.
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Man and Superman!

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Character(s): Niels Urey Vannevar (atomic physicist); Charlemagne Farbish (Niel's brother)
Synopsis: Neils is working on increasing the mass of the atom without changing its structure, but his brother is only interested in his body-building. Charlemagne does agree to go to Neil's lab, and while Neils steps out of the room, Charlemagne decides to expose himself to the rays of Neils' machine, which gives him tremendous strength, like that of a superman. Unfortunately, as Charlemagne expends his energy, he begins to tire and lose that strength and disappears, being burnt up in a burst of energy.
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Dilemma

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Synopsis: A sick man needs fermented liquids to survive and after being treated with experimental drugs, now causes everything he touches to turn into moonshine.
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Sinking of the Titanic!

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Character(s): George Seymore [also as George Temporal (death)] (British physicist); John Seymore (George's father, death, flashback); Mrs. Seymore (George's mother, death, flashback)
Synopsis: After ten years work, a noted British physicist creates a time-traveling machine, intending to go back in time to prevent the sinking of the ill-fated ship Titanic. The reason: his late parents were aboard that vessel and saved his life by giving theirs. However, by strange quirk of fate, George causes the very disaster he went back in time to prevent, but also saved himself as a boy before he died saving him.
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Divide and Conquer

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Synopsis: A scientist finds out his wife is planning to kill him, so he injects her with a solution that causes her to undergo binary fission and shrink. Eventually there are over a thousand mini versions of her which he then stamps underfoot like ants.
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