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Publisher: EC

Title: Weird Science
Issue: 18
Page Count: 36
Publish Date: March-April 1953
Volume: 1
Contributors: Editor: William M. Gaines

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Weird Science 18
Owner: entalmighty

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Story Title: [ no title ] - cover
Pages:1
Pencils:Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)
Inks:Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)
Genre:science fiction


Story Title: Mars Is Heaven! - comic story
Pages:8
Pencils:Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)
Inks:Wally Wood [as Wood] (signed)
Colors:Marie Severin
Letters:Jim Wroten
Genre:science fiction
Synopsis:Sneaky Martians disguise themselves as the dead loved ones of astronauts in order to slay them in their sleep.


Story Title: Snap Ending! - comic story
Pages:7
Pencils:Al Williamson (signed); Roy Krenkel
Inks:Al Williamson (signed); Roy Krenkel
Colors:Marie Severin
Letters:Jim Wroten
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Captain Don Mitchel (Commander of the United Earth's Mineral Evaluation Scout-Rocket Number 269, death); Lieutenant Sidney Gerson (Navigation Officer, death); Harold Kolby (ship's mineralogist, death); Janet Mitchel (Mitchel's wife); Billy Mitchel (Mitchel's son, flashback); Fznk (alien child)
Synopsis:Rocketship #269 is approaching a gigantic planet with a density 50 times that of the Earth, and decide to circle it to take a closer look. They spot and decide to land on a satellite moon of the planet.......with dire results!


Story Title: Fever - text story
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


Story Title: [ no title ] - letters page
Features:Cosmic Correspondence
Pages:0.67
Letters:typeset


Story Title: [ no title ] - statement of ownership
Pages:0.33
Letters:typeset


Story Title: The Parallel! - comic story
Pages:6
Pencils:Jack Kamen (signed)
Inks:Jack Kamen (signed)
Colors:Marie Severin
Letters:Jim Wroten
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Calvin Henkel (death); Florence Henkel (Calvin's wife, death); Mrs. Fishkin (Calvin's neighbor)
Synopsis:Feeling that he had already lived the exact moment before, Calvin tells his wife that he believes that there exists a parallel world which duplicates exactly everything happening at the current time. He plots to go to this parallel world and murder his counterpart so that he alone can control his own destiny.


Story Title: Disassembled! - comic story
Pages:7
Pencils:Joe Orlando (signed)
Inks:Joe Orlando (signed)
Colors:Marie Severin
Letters:Jim Wroten
Genre:science fiction


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