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Publisher: EC

Title: Weird Fantasy
Issue: 17
Page Count: 36
Publish Date: January-February 1953
Volume: 1
Contributors: Editor: Al Feldstein

Assigned Comics

Weird Fantasy #17
Owner: MedicAR

796
Views
5.0
CGC

Weird Fantasy #17 (1953 E.C. Comica/ Northford Pedigree)
Owner: Triskelion

1232
Views
8.0
CGC



Inside This Issue:

Detailed information about the issue is listed below.

Story Title: [ no title ] - cover
Pages:1
Pencils:Al Feldstein [as Feldstein] (signed)
Inks:Al Feldstein [as Feldstein] (signed)
Genre:fantasy; science fiction


Story Title: [ no title ] - promo (ad from the publisher)
Pages:1
Pencils:Wally Wood
Inks:Wally Wood
Genre:humor


Story Title: In the Beginning... - comic story
Pages:8
Pencils:Joe Orlando (signed)
Inks:Joe Orlando (signed)
Colors:Marie Severin
Letters:Jim Wroten
Genre:science fiction


Story Title: Ahead of the Game! - comic story
Pages:7
Pencils:Bill Elder [as B. Elder] (signed)
Inks:Bill Elder [as B. Elder] (signed)
Colors:Marie Severin
Letters:Jim Wroten
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Ned Hurbson (high school teacher, cameo, death); Mrs Hurbson; Dan (Police Lieutenant, death); Doc Winkler (coroner); Drake (the Lieutenant's assistant); Quigley (Policeman, mention only); (Martin (Police traffic control, mention only); Rose Miller (comptometer operator, mention only, death); Herman Thornton (writer, mention only, death); Lawrence Morgan (hospital intern, mention only, death); Frederick Phillips (civil engineer, mention only, death); Gloria Field (fashion designer, mention only, death); Professor Emile Shorham (villain, electrical brain wave theorist)
Synopsis:The Police are baffled by a series of six strange deaths in which each victim was beheaded, and none of the victims seem to have any connection to one another. When Drake tells the Lieutenant that similar murders (seven in each case) had also occurred in St. Louis and Chicago, the Lieutenant finds a connection between all of the crimes and a Professor Shorham, who lectures scientists on his invention of a mechanical brain, a discovery that results in the Lieutenant becoming the mad Professor's 7th victim in the city!


Story Title: The Space Pirate - text story
Pages:1
Letters:typeset
Genre:science fiction


Story Title: [ no title ] - letters page
Features:Cosmic Correspondence
Pages:0.6
Letters:typeset


Story Title: [ no title ] - statement of ownership
Pages:0.4
Letters:typeset


Story Title: The Aliens - comic story
Pages:6
Pencils:Al Williamson (signed); Roy Krenkel
Inks:Al Williamson (signed); Roy Krenkel
Colors:Marie Severin
Letters:Jim Wroten
Genre:science fiction
Synopsis:A group of aliens, heading towards the Earth to warn them and teach them about atomic power that Earthlings had recently discovered, are shocked to see the planet explode. They land on a fragment of the Earth remaining to see what they can learn about this civilization.


Story Title: There Will Come Soft Rains... - comic story
Pages:7
Pencils:Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)
Inks:Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)
Colors:Marie Severin
Letters:Jim Wroten
Genre:science fiction
Synopsis:This story basically serves as a allegory for human's ethical progress failing to keep pace with his technological progress. It describes an automatic house that continues to function long after the people that once lived there have been reduced to dust stains on the wall by nuclear holocaust.


View this comic at comics.org. Data courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution license.

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