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Title: WEIRD FANTASY No. 21
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Publisher:EC [Indicia: I. C. Publishing Co. Inc.]
Date Published: September-October, 1953
Description: CGC certified: Fine (6.0). Off-white pages. Grader notes: Spine stress lines breaks color; light readers crease breaks color; light, multiple crease right bottom of front cover breaks color.

CGC Census: 156 graded copies (138 Universal, 1 Qualified, 17 Restored).

GPAnalysis: A 6.0 sold for $720 in 2/24; a 6.5 sold for $1560 in 11/23.

Credits: Cover: Al Williamson and Frank Frazetta. Scripts: Al Feldstein, Bill Gaines, and Ray Bradbury. Art: Joe Orlando, Al Williamson, Jack Kamen, John Severin, Bill Elder.Williamson-Frazetta Masterwork: Classic cover by the sci-fi dream team of Williamson-Frazetta. Of EC's nearly 250 New Trend covers, this masterwork was chosen to represent EC to a new generation of Fan-Addicts on the front cover of Grant Geissman's definitive EC tome, The History of EC Comics (Taschen: 2020).

"Williamson and Frazetta's only collaborative EC science fiction cover used a technique seen fairly often in comic books then, one that's since become an economically unfeasible, neglected art... the system of working with color as an integral part of the cover illustration, as opposed to adding color to a black and white line drawing. Illustrators' concepts were executed by skilled technical craftsmen, artists in their own right, at the engraving plant.... Issue #21's cover features modeled color forming the background mountains, volcano smoke and part of the monster's tentacle and tail, all without inked outlines." – Bill Spicer, Weird Fantasy Vol. 4. Russ Cochran: 1980.______________________________________________________________

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