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Weird Fantasy, #13

Published: May-June 1950

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Weird Fantasy #13

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Am I Man or Machine? (1)
1 page science fiction

"Roger Henry, we have kept your brain alive for five months since your fatal accident!"

Characters
  • Roger Harvey's brain
  • Dr. Carl Walker
  • Professor Hugo Nelson
Credits
Story Notes

Letterer credit by Craig Delich. Cover features a scene from the first story.

Featuring Vault of Horror

Story 1 1 page horror-suspense
Credits
Story Notes

Cover title taken from the second story, from which it is based.

Am I Man or Machine?

Featuring A Weird-Science SuspenStory

Story 2 8 pages science fiction

"This was the house!"

Storyline

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.

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)
Credits
Story Notes

Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion. Much of the story is told in flashback. Cover story. Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin, but it is unlikely that Severin had begun coloring at EC when this issue was colored (Cassell 2012, 33–34 and 171). \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Reference: Cassell, Dewey, with Aaron Sultan. 2012. *Marie Severin: The Mirthful Mistress of Comics. *Raleigh: TwoMorrows Publishing.

Only Time Will Tell

Featuring An Eerie-Science SuspenStory

Story 3 7 pages science fiction

"For Steve Dorner, the unimaginable depths of this mysterious black hole..."

Storyline

Steve is experimenting with building a "temporal 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!

Characters
  • Steve Dorner (scientist/inventor)
  • Dan (Steve's assistant)
  • scientist from the future [Steve Dorner]
Credits
Story Notes

Script revision from Feldstein ? to Gaines (co-plot) and Feldstein co-plot and script, and letterer credit by Craig Delich. Script and plot addition revisions courtesy of Bill Mason as found in "Spawn of Mars" hardcover by Fantagraphics. Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin (see Indexer Notes for story “Am I Man or Machine?,” above).

Year of the Flood!
Story 4 1 page science fiction
Storyline

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!

Characters
  • Emergency Water Committee
  • jet plane pilots
The Men of Tomorrow
Story 5 6 pages science fiction

"In the unexplored valley of Kador..."

Storyline

An 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.

Characters
  • Captain Holly (death)
  • Phelps (death)
  • Professor Marvin Strand (death)
  • inhabitants of the silent city (all die)
Credits
Story Notes

Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin (see Indexer Notes for story “Am I Man or Machine?,” above).

Featuring Picture Stories From...

Story 6 1 page
Credits
Story Notes

Picture Stories from American History, Science, World History, the Bible.

Invasion!
Story 7 1 page fantasy; science fiction
Storyline

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!

Characters
  • Edward J. Stanhope (reporter)
  • Benson Tate (scientist, death)
  • Marvin Corliss (scientist, death)
Credits
...Trip into the Unknown

Featuring A Fanta-Science SuspenStory

Story 8 7 pages science fiction

"The time is D-20..."

Storyline

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!

Characters
  • scientific expedition [Professor Oppenheim
  • rest unnamed]
  • Eric
  • giant people (many die)
Credits
Story Notes

Script credit from Tales of Terror: The EC Companion. Previous indexer had Al Feldstein and Harvey Kurtzman. Marie Severin’s statement that “[Harvey] Kurtzman colored his own art, especially on covers...” (1995) suggests that Kurtzman colored stories that he drew, albeit perhaps less consistently than he colored his cover art. \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ References: Cassell, Dewey, with Aaron Sultan. 2012. “The Artists of EC Comics” (reprinting Severin 1995). In *Marie Severin: The Mirthful Mistress of Comics. *46–47. Raleigh: TwoMorrows Publishing. Severin, Marie ([John Province], transcriber). 1995. “Mostly about Color.” In *CFA-APA *36, January.