Weird Science-Fantasy #24 Gaines File Pedigree (EC, 1954) CGC NM/MT 9.8 Off-white to white pages....

Auction amount: $4,560.00

Sold: Sep 13, 2020

Weird Science-Fantasy #24 Values

Publisher: EC, 1954

About Weird Science-Fantasy #24

Contains the story "Upheaval", Harlan Ellison's first professional work. The cover is by Al Feldstein, with interior art by Wally Wood, Al Williamson, Joe Orlando, Marie Severin, and Bernie Krigstein.

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COVER DETAILS

Pencils: Al Feldstein [as Feldstein] (signed)

Inks: Al Feldstein [as Feldstein] (signed)

Colors: Marie Severin

STORY DETAILS

(6 Stories)

Title: ... For Posterity

Characters: Marty; Phil

Synopsis: Two prospectors find a flying saucer and are captured by an alien race.

Pages: 8.000

Script: Albert B. Feldstein

Pencils: Wallace Wood

Inks: Wallace Wood

Letters: Jim Wroten

Title: The Teacher from Mars

Characters: Professor Mun Zeerohs; Tom Blaine; Robert Graham; Oscar (robot)

Synopsis: A Martian teacher on Earth finds his students full of bigotry.

Pages: 7.000

Script: Otto Binder [as Eando Binder]; Albert B. Feldstein (adaptation)

Pencils: Joe Orlando

Inks: Joe Orlando

Letters: Jim Wroten

Notes: Eando Binder adaptation. "Eando" is pen name of long-time comics scripter Otto Binder.

Title: The Pioneer

Characters: Professor Alec Lathem (rocket research scientist); Dean Miller (college head, death); Hiram Jenkins (nosy neighbor of Lathem, death)

Synopsis: Professor Lathem, injured severely during an experiment in space flight during one of his college classes, miraculously survives the explosion, but is warned by the college Dean not to engage in such dangerous experiments again. Unfortunately, the professor does not see eye to eye with the Dean, so resigns and builds a new rocket engine in his barn. It is successful, but kills Hiram Jenkins in the process. Lathem's fate, however, is quite unexpected.......to himself!

Pages: 6.000

Script: Bill Gaines (co-plot); Al Feldstein (co-plot, script)

Pencils: Bernie Krigstein [as B. Krigstein] (signed)

Inks: Bernie Krigstein [as B. Krigstein] (signed)

Letters: Jim Wroten

Notes: Co-plots added by Craig Delich.

Title: Upheaval!

Characters: un-named ship's Captain; Devers

Synopsis: A Captain and his crew land on a weird planet whose surface was like green felt......a planet that swallowed the ship and crew, then spewed them out of its interior.....like vomit. As the ship took off, the whole crew had the answer to a concern that they all had been arguing about: that, even though they thought man was the highest form of evolutionary structure, they had just been proven wrong.....by the planet itself!

Pages: 7.000

Script: Harlan Ellison (plot); Al Feldstein script

Pencils: Al Williamson (signed)

Inks: Al Williamson (signed); Roy Krenkel

Letters: Jim Wroten

Reprints: Fantastic Exploits (S.F.C.A., 1965 series) #22 (1972)

Notes: Krenkel credit added by Craig Delich 2013-9-24.

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CGC Census Report*

Grade	0.5	1.0	1.5	1.8	2.0	2.5	3.0	3.5	4.0	4.5	5.0	5.5	6.0	6.5	7.0	7.5	8.0	8.5	9.0	9.2	9.4	9.6	9.8	9.9	10.0	Total
Universal	0	3	1	2	1	1	1	5	5	6	3	5	6	11	6	3	2	3	3	1	0	4	2	0	0	74
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Restored	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	5
Total	0	3	1	2	1	2	1	5	6	6	3	5	7	11	6	3	3	3	4	1	0	4	2	0	0	79

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