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Title: INCREDIBLE SCIENCE-FICTION Nos. 31, 32 and 33
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Publisher:EC [Indicia: Fables Publishing Co., Inc.]
Date Published: 1955-1956
Description:

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  #31: G/VG (3.0). Subscription crease, COLOR TOUCHES to black shadows, corner creases, small edge chips, some pages dogeared. Cream to off-white pages.


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  #32: VG- (3.5). Spine stress, 1/4" tear to front cover with tape repair to verso, tiny chip, creases. Light tan pages.


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  #33: VG- (3.5). Spine stress, 1/2" split to spine below top staple, tiny chips to spine ends, a few short tears, small chip to back cover. Cream to off-white pages. Feldstein & Orlando's "Judgment Day" reprinted from Weird Fantasy #18.

Covers: Jack Davis, Wally Wood. Scripts: Jack Oleck. Art: Wally Wood, Bernie Krigstein, Al Williamson, Roy Krenkel, Joe Orlando, Jack Davis.

In the post-Code era, the word "WEIRD" in comic book titles was newsstand poison, so Weird-Science Fantasy became Incredible Science Fiction. There's an oft-repeated and widely-held belief that the Comics Code specifically banned the word "WEIRD" in an effort to undermine EC, but that's untrue. According to the Code's General Standards Part B, line 1, "No comic magazine shall use the words horror or terror in its title." The word "Weird" was not specifically disallowed, but its association with horror mags published by EC, Stanley Morse, Comic Media, Superior and others made it unlikely to pass muster with distributors and retailers, and thus its use was avoided. – See Amy Kiste Nyberg's Seal of Approval: The History of the Comics Code. University Press of Mississippi: 1998, p. 167.

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