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Issue Details

Issue #17
Published January-February 1953
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Al Feldstein

Cover Details

Genre Science Fiction; Fantasy
Pencils Al Feldstein
Inks Al Feldstein
Reprinted in Weird Fantasy (Gemstone, 1994 series) #17 (October 1996)

8 page story "In the Beginning..."

Genre science fiction
Script Al Feldstein
Pencils Joe Orlando
Inks Joe Orlando
Colors Marie Severin
Reprinted in Weird Fantasy (Gemstone, 1994 series) #17 (October 1996)

7 page story "Ahead of the Game!"

Genre science fiction
Script Al Feldstein
Pencils Will Elder
Inks Will Elder
Colors Marie Severin
Reprinted in Weird Fantasy (Gemstone, 1994 series) #17 (October 1996)

1 page text story "The Space Pirate"

Letters typeset

6 page story "The Aliens"

Genre science fiction
Script Al Feldstein
Pencils Al Williamson
Inks Al Williamson
Colors Marie Severin
Reprinted in Weird Fantasy (Gemstone, 1994 series) #17 (October 1996)

7 page story "There Will Come Soft Rains..."

Synopsis This story basically serves as a allegory for human's ethical progress failing to keep pace with his technological progress. It describes an automatic house that continues to function long after the people that once lived there have been reduced to dust stains on the wall by nuclear holocaust.
Genre science fiction
Script Ray Bradbury; Albert B. Feldstein (adaptation)
Pencils Wally Wood
Inks Wally Wood
Colors Marie Severin
Reprinted in Tomorrow Midnight (Ballantine Books, 1966 series) #U2142 (June 1966); in Weird Fantasy (Gemstone, 1994 series) #17 (October 1996); in Ray Bradbury Chronicles (Bantam Spectra Books; Byron Preiss Visual Publications, 1992 series) #3