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Publisher: EC

Title: Weird Fantasy
Issue: 13
Page Count: 36
Publish Date: May-June 1950
Volume: 1
Contributors: Editor: Al Feldstein

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Weird Fantasy 13 (1)
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Story Title: Am I Man Or Machine? - cover
Pages:1
Pencils:Al Feldstein [as Feldstein] (signed)
Inks:Al Feldstein [as Feldstein] (signed)
Letters:Jim Wroten
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Roger Harvey's brain; Dr. Carl Walker; Professor Hugo Nelson


Story Title: [ no title ] - promo (ad from the publisher)
Features:Vault of Horror
Pages:1
Pencils:Johnny Craig (signed)
Inks:Johnny Craig (signed)
Colors:Johnny Craig
Letters:Jim Wroten
Genre:horror-suspense


Story Title: Am I Man Or Machine? - comic story
Features:A Weird-Science SuspenStory
Pages:8
Pencils:Al Feldstein
Inks:Al Feldstein
Colors:Marie Severin
Letters:Jim Wroten
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Roger Harvey (a robot with Harvey's brain, Diane's former love interest); Diane [aka "Butterfly"]; Professor Hugo Nelson (in flashback); Dr. Carl Walker (Nelson's assistant, in flashback); Bob (Diane's husband, mention only); Kenneth (young boy, in flashback)
Synopsis:Diane is visited one night by her one-time suitor, Roger, who had been killed many years previously in a car accident......but whose brain was kept alive by two scientists and placed in a robotic body.


Story Title: Only Time Will Tell - comic story
Features:An Eerie-Science SuspenStory
Pages:7
Pencils:Harry Harrison
Inks:Wally Wood
Colors:Marie Severin
Letters:Jim Wroten
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Steve Dorner (scientist/inventor); Dan (Steve's assistant); scientist from the future [Steve Dorner]
Synopsis:Steve is experimenting with building a "temperal resonance" machine when he is visited by a man from the future, who escorts the scientist into the far future to help with the actual machine in use. He is forced to return to the present, but takes with him part of the machine's diagram. Over the next decade plus, Steve tries to build the machine....and succeeds.....with an unexpected horrible realization in the process!


Story Title: Year of the Flood! - text story
Pages:1
Pencils:? (spot illustration)
Inks:? (spot illustration)
Letters:typeset
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Emergency Water Committee; jet plane pilots
Synopsis:Meeting in the nation's capital, the Emergency Water Committee was trying to find a way to deal with the terrible drought facing the country. A uniformed man believed he had the solution: to bombard the isolated cumulus clouds with silver-iodine pellets. The only problem was that the solution worked.....too well!


Story Title: The Men of Tomorrow - comic story
Pages:6
Pencils:Jack Kamen
Inks:Jack Kamen
Colors:Marie Severin
Letters:Jim Wroten
Genre:science fiction
Characters:Captain Holly (death); Phelps (death); Professor Marvin Strand (death); inhabitants of the silent city (all die)
Synopsis:Am expedition, sans the native bearers who were too scared to continue on, becomes the first men to reach what they believe is the fabled Kador Valley. There they discover a strange, silent city, and one of its many inhabitants who does not speak, but is telepathic. The group is captured, but soon learn that their presence has unprecedented consequences.


Story Title: [ no title ] - promo (ad from the publisher)
Features:Picture Stories From...
Pages:1
Pencils:Don Cameron; Allen Simon
Inks:Don Cameron; Allen Simon
Letters:typeset


Story Title: Invasion! - text story
Pages:1
Pencils:Al Feldstein
Inks:Al Feldstein
Letters:typeset
Genre:fantasy; science fiction
Characters:Edward J. Stanhope (reporter); Benson Tate (scientist, death); Marvin Corliss (scientist, death)
Synopsis:An expedition makes its way into the atomic bombed Baluku Atoll, which now has grotesque, monstrous sized jungle growth springing up all over.....and another, more deadly danger: jungle insects!


Story Title: ...Trip Into the Unknown - comic story
Features:A Fanta-Science SuspenStory
Pages:7
Pencils:Harvey Kurtzman
Inks:Harvey Kurtzman
Colors:Marie Severin
Letters:Jim Wroten
Genre:science fiction
Characters:scientific expedition [Professor Oppenheim; rest unnamed]; Eric; giant people (many die)
Synopsis:A crew blasts off toward their destination: Planet X, and, once they land, discover the remains of a once well-developed civilization. They discover a library and remove one of the books, then are suddenly attacked by giant people, and blast off for home. What they later discover in the book is that the planet that they just visited was called: the Earth!


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