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Issue: Weird Fantasy #8
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagEC
Indicia Publisher: I. C. Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 05/14/1951
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 10 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Al Feldstein
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is the publication date reported in U. S. Copyright Office filings.
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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
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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
 
 

Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Al Feldstein [as Feldstein] (signed)
Al Feldstein [as Feldstein] (signed)
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?
Subject Matter
fantasy, science fiction
Reprinting
FlagWeird Fantasy #8 published August 1951
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
FlagWeird Fantasy #8 published July 1994
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
 
Miscellaneous
1
Look For This Seal...

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
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typeset
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Announcement from the Association of Comics Magazine Publishers.
The Origin of the Species!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
Al Feldstein [as Feldstein] (signed)
Al Feldstein [as Feldstein] (signed)
Marie Severin
Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
science fiction
Reprinting
FlagWeird Fantasy #8 published July 1994
as The Origin of the Species! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
8
Letterer credit by Craig Delich.
Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.
It Didn't Matter

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
Jack Kamen (signed)
Jack Kamen (signed)
Marie Severin
Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
science fiction
Reprinting
FlagWeird Fantasy #8 published July 1994
as It Didn't Matter [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
7
Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.
[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Al Feldstein [as Feldstein] (signed)
Al Feldstein [as Feldstein] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
horror
Tales from the Crypt
The Crypt-Keeper (inset); The Old Witch (inset); The Vault-Keeper (inset)
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
0.5
Speed!

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
?
typeset
Subject Matter
fantasy, science fiction
Reprinting
FlagWeird Fantasy #8 published July 1994
 
Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Don Cameron
Don Cameron
?
typeset
Subject Matter
Picture Stories From the Bible
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
0.5
[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Al Feldstein
?
?
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typeset
Subject Matter
Cosmic Correspondence
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Voting results: 1. Breakdown 2. Come Into My Parlor 3. Seven Year Old Genius 4. Across the Sun!
Letters from Ed Moran, Warren Zykowski, Frank Carrol, and Nina Caldwell.
The Slave Ship

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)
George Roussos [as Roussos] (signed)
George Roussos [as Roussos] (signed)
Marie Severin
Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
science fiction
Reprinting
FlagWeird Fantasy #8 published July 1994
as The Slave Ship [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
6
Script credit from "Tales of Terror! - The EC Companion" by Fred von Bernewitz and Grant Geissman.
The Enemies of the Colony

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Wally Wood
Wally Wood
Wally Wood
Marie Severin
Jim Wroten
Subject Matter
science fiction
Captain Vorkey (death); Cora Vorkey (the Captain's wife, death); General Mattson (death); Harvey Mattson (the General's son, death); Jimmy Vorkey (the Captain's son, death); Hydro-Files (alien creatures, many die); the Mokos (villains, alien creatures)
Members of the G.C.A. land on a planet after seven years of travel, intent on making it their new home. There they discover that the planet is inhabited by a strange race called the Mokos and they have been bred by the colonists there. Also present are the Hydro-Files, considered vicious and dangerous. But the inhabitants soon learn how wrong they can be.
Reprinting
FlagFlashback #1 published January 1971
as The Enemies of the Colony [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagWeird Fantasy #8 published July 1994
as The Enemies of the Colony [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
7
Script revision from Al Feldstein to Wood per "Spawn of Mars and Other Stories Illustrated by Wally Wood", added by Craig Delich.

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