#17
January-February 1951 · 0.10 USD · 36 pages
On sale 1950-11-08
Rated Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code
Synopsis
A mining engineer, 750 feet underground in a mine, feels the ground shaking and eventually emerges from it to discover massive destruction caused by a series of atom bombs dropped on the area. He learns in coming days that the nation had responded with hydrogen bombs, destroying the enemy in just four days. What he soon learned to his horror that all other people were being mutated by the radiation from the war... including his own child.
Notes
The on-sale date is the publication date reported in the U. S. Copyright Office filings.
Some colors in this issue 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.
Reprinted from
Reprinted in
- Tales of the Incredible #U2140
- Weird Fantasy #5
- Weird Fantasy #17 [5]
- Flashback #1
- The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #6— Reprinted in black and white.
- The EC Archives: Weird Fantasy #1
- The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #12— Reprinted in black and white.
- Weird Fantasy #1
- Aus dem EC-Archiv - Wally Wood #1
- The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #24— Reprinted in black and white.
- Choke Gasp! The Best of 75 Years of EC Comics #[nn]
- The Fantagraphics EC Artists' Library #27— Reprinted in black and white.
- EC Archives: Weird Fantasy #1
Credits
- Script
- Harvey Kurtzman, Bill Gaines, Al Feldstein
- Pencils
- Al Feldstein, Johnny Craig, Harvey Kurtzman, Don Cameron, Wally Wood, Jack Kamen
- Inks
- Al Feldstein, Johnny Craig, Harvey Kurtzman, Don Cameron, Wally Wood, Jack Kamen
- Colours
- Johnny Craig
- Letters
- Jim Wroten, Ben Oda
- Editor
- Bill Gaines
- Associate editor
- Al Feldstein
- And plot) [as woody] (signed
- Wally Wood
- Co-plot
- Bill Gaines
- Co-plot, script
- Al Feldstein
- See notes
- Harvey Kurtzman
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