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Weird Fantasy (1951 E.C. Comics 2nd Series) comic books

  • Issue #6
    Weird Fantasy (1951 E.C. Comics 2nd Series) 6
    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Label #4404942010
    • Cover coming loose at one staple. Water damage.
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    • Small corner piece torn from Cosmic Correspondence page, lateral spine tears, cover detached at one staple and coming loose at the other, 2" cumulative spine split.
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    • 6" cumulative spine split. Cover and centerfold detached.
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    Cover art by Al Feldstein. "Space-Warp," script by Bill Gaines (plot) and Al Feldstein (plot, script), art by Al Feldstein; Frank readies himself for a monumental two-year journey to Altair, using the invention of Professor Hartlow: the Space-Warp Drive, which makes use of the theory that space is curved, and, that by entering into the 4th Dimension, one can travel great distances in a relatively short period of time. "The Dimension Translator," script and art by Harvey Kurtzman; Willy has created a dimension translator, which can translate a series of photos into an electric impulse and through a series of other processes, creates an actual three dimensional object; His boss does not like his research engineer "wasting the company's time" on such things...so Willy uses a photo of his boss to create a three dimensional figure of Mr. Bankbuck so that Willy can slap him around and get even. Tales From the Crypt ad. "Experiment" text story. Picture Stories From the Bible ad. "And Then There Were Two!", script by Bill Gaines (plot) and Al Feldstein (plot, script), art by Jack Kamen; American soldiers land on an atoll, ordered to remove any native inhabitants so that the U.S. government could conduct a hydrogen bomb test there; The natives have told the government that iron gods live on the atoll and soon the soldiers discover two of these "gods" (actually robots), which tell the men of their creator, and then are taken back to America. "Rescued!", script by Wally Wood (plot) and Al Feldstein (script), art by Wally Wood; A crew had been sent into space a year earlier to examine a planet in the solar system of a neighboring star; Upon discovering it, and noting it was about the size of the Earth, they landed next to the ship of the previous expedition two years earlier; Then and there they discovered was had happened to the previous expedition and what would happen to theirs. No cover number. NOTE: See #13A-17A for the 1st five issues in the series. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #7
    Weird Fantasy (1951 E.C. Comics 2nd Series) 7

    Cover by Al Feldstein. Stories by Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein. Art by Jack Kamen, George Roussos, Wally Wood and Al Feldstein. EC's influential New Trend series is considered one of the greatest science-fiction titles of all time. A child genius named Rufus tries to warn American leaders of the dangers of the atomic bomb. An arachnologist is lured into the future by a spider-like woman. A couple tries to warn the FBI about an alien invasion, with art by Wally Wood. 7 Year Old Genius; Come Into My Parlor; Across the Sun; Breakdown! 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #8
    Weird Fantasy (1951 E.C. Comics 2nd Series) 8
    • 1/2" Spine split from top.
    • Restored (see item notes)
    • RESTORATION. Staples replaced and reinforced with tape. Rust migration. Water damage. Slight mold.
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    Cover by Al Feldstein. Stories by Wally Wood, Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein. Art by Jack Kamen, George Roussos, Wally Wood and Al Feldstein. EC's influential New Trend series is considered one of the greatest science-fiction titles of all time. Two scientist brothers seeking the ancient ancestors of humanity find unexpected answers in a time warp and a mysterious lost world on the Moon. A scientist's assistant and his cheating wife plot to use his experimental new teleporter to commit the perfect murder. In the distant future, humans learn a horrifying secret about the cute little monkey-like Mokos, with charming art by Wally Wood. The Origin of the Species; It Didnt Matter; The Slave Ship; The Enemies of the Colony. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #10
    Weird Fantasy (1951 E.C. Comics 2nd Series) 10
    • 6" cumulative spine split. Cover and centerfold detached. Cover oxidation.
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    "The Secret of Saturn's Ring" (art by Wally Wood), "A Timely Shock" (art by Jack Kamen), "The Mutants" (art by Wood), and "Not on the Menu" (art by Joe Orlando). Al Feldstein cover. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #11
    Weird Fantasy (1951 E.C. Comics 2nd Series) 11
    • 1" Chew on spine through cover and two wraps.
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    • Cover detached at one staple. Water damage. Oxidation.
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    Cover art by Al Feldstein. "The Two-Century Journey!", script by Al Feldstein (script and plot) and William Gaines (plot), art by Wally Wood; A generation ship leaves earth to travel to another planet; On the way they discover that people age very slowly in space, which creates a population problem on the ship. "Shrinking From Abuse!", script by Bill Gaines (co-plot) and Al Feldstein (co-plot, script), art by Jack Kamen; Hugo Masterson has created a formula to shrink tissue in order to possibly cure cancer, but he accidentally injects himself and is then injested by his wife. Shock SuspenStories ad. "Desire!" text story. "The 10th At Noon," script by Al Feldstein (script and plot) and William Gaines (plot), art by Wally Wood; Two scientists invent a time machine that can send a camera into the future and snap a picture, and, by doing so, they discover the end of the world is coming. "The Thing In the Jar," script by Al Feldstein, art by Joe Orlando; Scientists discover what has been killing everything in Mr. Dorsey's pond. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #12
    Weird Fantasy (1951 E.C. Comics 2nd Series) 12
    • 1" cumulative spine split. Cover and interior oxidation. Residue on interior pages.
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    Al Feldstein classic outer space cover. Joe Orlando The EC Artist of the Issue article by Al Feldstein. "Project...Survival!", script by Bill Gaines (co-plot) and Al Feldstein (co-plot and script), art by Wally Wood; With a civil war raging on Earth, the President of the Amalgamated Rocket Corporation believes, that with the help of science, man can reach the Moon and use it as a base; What scares the scientists is that he also intends to use the highly powerful Electron Bomb on the rebels, a move that could end all life on Earth! "A Lesson In Anatomy!!", script by Bill Gaines (co-plot) and Al Feldstein (co-plot, script), art by Jack Kamen; Chased away from his father's lab while he dissects a body, Stevey finds a stranger in the forest. Wanting to brag, Stevey tells the man all sorts of falsehoods, which he believes; But Stevey soon learns a secret about the stranger he doesn't expect to discover. Shock SuspenStories ad. "Explosive!" text story. "The Die Is Cast!", script by Al Feldstein (script and plot) and William Gaines (plot), art by Wally Wood; The I.S.E.A. of Earth has commissioned Commander Stone to write out a detailed report on the destruction of his spaceship; What he tells about is almost too hard to believe. "A Man's Job!", script by Al Feldstein, art by Joe Orlando. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #13
    Weird Fantasy (1951 E.C. Comics 2nd Series) 13
    • 2.75" Cumulative spine split. Cover detached at one staple. Extra staple (manufacturing). Staple rust with migration.
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    • Interior is complete. Full-length spine split (taped). Cover detached and taped to first wrap. Tape on interior cover and pages. Cover and interior oxidation.
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    "The End" (art by Wally Wood), "The Trip" (art by Jack Kamen), "Home to Stay" (art by Wood; unauthorized swipe of two Ray Bradbury stories, "Kaleidoscope" and "Rocket Man"), and "Don't Count Your Chickens" (art by Joe Orlando). The letters page features a well-reasoned response from the editors to a letter from a parent critical of SF and horror comics such as those published by EC. Al Feldstein classic outer space cover. NOTE: See 1st Series for 1950 #13.

    NOTE: Also, this issue was reprinted by East Coast Comics with a $1 cover and 1970's copyright date (see E.C. Classic Reprints # 5). These and other changes make the reprint easy to distinguish from the original, which has a 10-cent cover price and a 1950's publication date. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #14
    Weird Fantasy (1951 E.C. Comics 2nd Series) 14
    • Restored: C2
    • Paper: Off white to white
    • Restoration Includes: Small Amount of Color Touch on Cover
    • Label #4385185024
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    • 2" Cumulative spine split. Cover detached at one staple and loose at other. Tape.
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    • Paper: Off white to white
    • Label #4254148009
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    Al Feldstein classic outer space cover. "The Exile" (art by Wally Wood), "The Expert" (art by Joe Orlando), "The Ad" (art by Orlando), "Close Call" (art by Jack Kamen), and "Mad Journey" (art by Al Williamson--his first for EC--with Frank Frazetta and Roy Krenkel). The EC staff appears in the two Orlando stories. This issue contains the first Williamson/Frazetta collaboration at EC. 36 pages. NOTE: See 1st Series for 1950 #14. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #15
    Weird Fantasy (1951 E.C. Comics 2nd Series) 15
    • Paper: Off white to white
    • Label #4362037008
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    Al Feldstein classic outer space cover. "Revulsion" (art by Joe Orlando), "The Quick Trip" and "The Long Trip" (art by Al Williamson)., "He Who Waits" (art by Jack Kamen), and "By George" (art by Williamson with Jack Hearn). NOTE: See 1st Series for 1950 #15 Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #16
    Weird Fantasy (1951 E.C. Comics 2nd Series) 16
    • Paper: Off white
    • Label #4248649001
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    Al Feldstein classic outer space cover. "Mass Meeting" (art by Joe Orlando), "Skeleton Key" (art by Al Williamson), "What He Saw" (art by Jack Kamen), and "The Green Thing" (art by Orlando). The letters page comments on EC's Ray Bradbury adaptations with a disingenuous implication that the author approved them from the beginning. As is well-known now, Feldstein swiped the stories without authorization, but Bradbury called them on it, and soon an agreement was worked out in which EC paid Bradbury for the adaptations. NOTE: See 1st Series for 1950 #16. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #17
    Weird Fantasy (1951 E.C. Comics 2nd Series) 17
    • 3/4" Cumulative spine split. Tape on interior of cover.
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    • 2" Cumulative spine split. Cover oxidation.
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    This key and very classic EC issue begins with an Al Feldstein dinosaurs and space cover. "In the Beginning" (art by Joe Orlando), "Ahead of the Game" (art by Bill Elder), "The Aliens" (art by Al Williamson with Roy Krenkel), the classic story that features a single full infinity page in which two aliens gaze at a page the repeats itself into infinity and say "Squa Tront!" and "Spa Fon" (and we ALL know what that means!), and Ray Bradbury's haunting "There Will Come Soft Rains" (art by Wally Wood). NOTE: See 1st Series for 1951 #17. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #18
    Weird Fantasy (1951 E.C. Comics 2nd Series) 18
    • 1" spine split from bottom of comic. Cover oxidation.
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    • Paper: Cream to off white
    • Label #4070718004
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    • 2.5" cumulative spine split with some splitting through a few wraps.
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    Cover pencils by Al Williamson, inks by Al Feldstein. "Counter-Clockwise," script by Bill Gaines (co-plot) and Al Feldstein (co-plot, script), pencils by John Severin, inks by Bill Elder; Ron's father is dismayed when he learns that his son wants to secure at a job at the Rocket-Port...not just to service rockets, but to fly them; He cautions his son that pilots must retire at age 26, but while they talk, Ron's Dad sights a space ship that is not of earthly origin; Together they go to the landing sight, armed with a blaster; When a weird alien being alights from the ship, they kill it and report to the authorities. "Zero Hour," script by Ray Bradbury and Albert B. Feldstein (adaptation), art by Jack Kamen; Mrs. Morris, at first, thinks nothing of her daughter and a friend playing their game of "invasion"; But when Mink starts telling of a Martian named Drill, who is the fore-runner of a Martian invasion of Earth, and Mary discovers that kids of her friends in other parts of the country are playing the same game, she wonders if this is for real. "The Ashtray" text story. "Homesick!", script by Al Feldstein, art by Al Williamson (signed) and Roy Krenkel (on technological details); David Todd and Lynn Ardsley plot her husband's murder, while David and Lawrence are on a mission to Mars to investigate the planet's landscape and possible life forms. "Judgment Day!", script by Al Feldstein, art by Joe Orlando; Tarlton, the Earthman, has landed on the planet Cybrinia, home to mechanical life; He is to judge whether or not Cybrinia will be allowed to "partake of the wonders of Earth." 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #19
    Weird Fantasy (1951 E.C. Comics 2nd Series) 19
    • Restored (see item notes)
    • RESTORATION. Color touch. Interior is complete. Full length spine split. Staples added (not manufacturing). Tape residue.
    • 1.5" Spine split. Staple rust with migration. Water saturation.
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    • Full-length spine split (taped). Centerfold detached. Staples added (not manufacturing). Cover oxidation.
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    Cover art by Joe Orlando. Al Williamson is profiled on inside front cover (includes a photo of the artist). "King of the Grey Spaces!" script by Ray Bradbury (original) and Al Feldstein (adaptation), pencils by John Severin, inks by Bill Elder; A group of boys watch the launching of a rocket ship, and two of them wish that they were older and could make the trip themselves; They apply for the Interplanetary Patrol and await their decision once they turn 21, but soon Chris gets a surprise that will change his life forever; adaptation of "R Is For Rocket" by Ray Bradbury. "Hot-Rod!", script by Bill Gaines (co-plot) and Al Feldstein (co-plot and script), art by Jack Kamen; Amos and Sally are driving by a lake when a strangely garbed man jumps up on the running board of their car and drops a package in the back seat; Later, Amos looks at the package, postmarked May 15, 2053, and discovers something called a trans-dimensional transporter inside; Thinking it to be some sort of gadget to soup up his hot-rod, Amos installs the device, traveling into the future. "Cleanser" text story. "Brain-Child!", script by Al Feldstein, pencils by Al Williamson, inks by Al Williamson and Roy Krenkel; Colonel Dane is selected to pilot a brand-new spaceship, powered by an electronic brain, which enables this vessel to be a virtual one-man war rocket; While it seems the rocketship could operate itself with no human pilot, the drawback is the ship is void of emotion: it cannot hate, it doesn't know love and it cannot create. "Time For a Change!", script by Al Feldstein, art by Joe Orlando. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #20
    Weird Fantasy (1951 E.C. Comics 2nd Series) 20
    • Paper: Off white
    • Label #23-3812DEF-015
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    Cover art by Al Feldstein. "For Us the Living," script by Bill Gaines (co-plot) and Albert B. Feldstein (co-plot, script), pencils by John Severin, inks by Bill Elder; Dr. Cromwell tells the F.B.I. that he came from an alternate timeline. "I, Rocket," script by Ray Bradbury and Albert B. Feldstein (adaptation), pencils by Al Williamson and Frank Frazetta, inks by Al Williamson, Frank Frazetta, and Roy Krenkel; A very expensive new rocketship, once built for war and now rusting away, relates the story of her glory with Captain Lamb in charge, but also of treachery aboard ship, which the rocket secretly dealt with. "Discovery" text story. "Conquers All!", script by Bill Gaines (co-plot) and Al Feldstein (co-plot and script), art by Jack Kamen; As a prelude to an invasion of the Earth, an infiltration rocket from a far distant world is sent to the Earth to examine, estimate, judge and report back to their leaders. "The Automaton," script by Al Feldstein, art by Joe Orlando. "The Automaton," script by Al Feldstein, art by Joe Orlando. 36 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.

  • Issue #22
    Weird Fantasy (1951 E.C. Comics 2nd Series) 22
    • Cover detached. Cover tear taped at interior.
    • Restored (see item notes)
    • RESTORATION. Staples replaced. spine taped on interior cover, pages, and under staples. Water damage. Oxidation.
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    • Full length spine split. Cover oxidation.
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    Final issue of the series (becomes Weird Science-Fantasy with issue #23). Cover art by Joe Orlando. "The Silent Towns," script by Ray Bradbury and Al Feldstein (adaptation), art by Reed Crandall; Walter surveys a little white silent town on the edge of a dead Martian sea, wondering what happened to all of its inhabitants; He suddenly hears a phone ringing, but he is too late to answer it; After this happens twice, he succeeds in answering a phone and finds a Miss Selsor on the other end, and he meets her, only to find that she is fat and ugly; An adaptation of a Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles story. "The Freaks," script by Bill Gaines (co-plot) and Al Feldstein (co-plot and script), art by Jack Kamen; The freaks at a circus side show are sick and tired of the stares of the crowds, their snickers, their groans of disgust...and one decides to quit. But when the freak is found dead in his tent, the circus owners go in search for a replacement. "Public Service!" text story. "The Fossil," script by Bill Gaines (co-plot) and Al Feldstein (co-plot, script), art by Joe Orlando; Astronauts land on a deserted planet and begin hunting for archaeological evidence of the former inhabitants; They find a huge skeleton of a creature that apparently walked on all fours, but are baffled by its nature. "Derelict Ship," script by Bill Gaines (co-plot) and Al Feldstein (co-plot, script), art by Bernie Krigstein; Captain Vance Kaye is the commanding officer of an exploratory spaceship; He's obsessed with searching every derelict ship his crew discovers, but nobody knows why. 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.