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Weird Science-Fantasy (1954 E.C. Comics) comic books 1954

  • Issue #23
    Weird Science-Fantasy (1954 E.C. Comics) 23
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Slab: Significant side/edge cracks 1" or more
    • Label #4022353011
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Label #1239662004
    • Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.
    • Paper: Off white
    • Label #4340754024
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    First issue of the series (continues from Weird Fantasy and Weird Science). Cover art by Wallace Wood. "The Children," script by Albert B. Feldstein, art by Wallace Wood; Colonists on a new world have their children taken from them by the government. "Fish Story," script by Albert B. Feldstein, art by Al Williamson (signed) and Roy Krenkel (underwater world panels); The fish life forms on a distant strange blue planet are faced with their fading sun soon going nova and exploding, only to leave their planet without life-sustaining oxygen; Then they see an alien vessel approaching and fill it with water and drown the crew inside. "Ninth Wonder" text story. "The Flying Machine," script by Ray Bradbury and Albert B. Feldstein (adaptation), art by Bernie Krigstein; When Emperor Yuan discovers that a villager has learned how to create a flying machine he has him killed so the secret won't fall into the wrong hands. "Fair Trade, script by Albert B. Feldstein, art by Joe Orlando; After a nuclear holocaust, a tribe sells Manhattan Island to aliens. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.15.

  • Issue #24
    Weird Science-Fantasy (1954 E.C. Comics) 24
    • 8.25" Cumulative spine split (taped). Tape under staples.
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    Cover art by Al Feldstein. "For Posterity," script by Albert B. Feldstein, art by Wallace Wood; Two prospectors find a flying saucer and are captured by an alien race. The Teacher from Mars," script by Otto Binder (as Eando Binder) and Albert B. Feldstein (adaptation), art by Joe Orlando; A Martian teacher on Earth finds his students full of bigotry. "Back to Nature" text story, art by Marie Severin. "The Pioneer," script by Al Feldstein, art by Bernie Krigstein; Professor Lathem builds a new rocket engine in his barn. "Upheaval!", script by Harlan Ellison (plot, based on his story "Mealtime") and Al Feldstein script, art by Al Williamson; A Captain and his crew land on a weird planet whose surface was like green felt...a planet that swallowed the ship and crew, then spewed them out of its interior... like vomit. As the ship took off, the whole crew had the answer to a concern that they all had been arguing about: that, even though they thought man was the highest form of evolutionary structure, they had just been proven wrong...by the planet itself! 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.15.

  • Issue #25
    Weird Science-Fantasy (1954 E.C. Comics) 25
    • 1.5" spine split from bottom of comic. Cover oxidation.
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    • Full length spine split (taped). Cover detached.
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    "Flying Saucer Report" (art by Wally Wood), "A Sound of Thunder" (art by Al Williamson with Angelo Torres and Roy Krenkel; adapted from the classic Ray Bradbury story), "Bellyful" (art by Bernard Krigstein), and "Harvest" (art by Joe Orlando). Letter to the editor from Bradbury praising "The Flying Machine" adaptation that appeared in issue 23 by Krigstein: it is "The finest single piece of art-drawing I've seen in the comics in years." Comics artist Dan Adkins writes another letter. Williamson cover. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.