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Weird Fantasy#22
Cover: Joe Orlando

Weird Fantasy #22

Nov 1953 · EC · 0.10 USD
“The Silent Towns”
writer Bill Gaines · writer Al Feldstein · artist, inker Bernie Krigstein · colorist Marie Severin · letterer Jim Wroten · cover Joe Orlando

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artist, inker Bernie Krigstein
colorist Marie Severin
letterer Jim Wroten
cover pencils, inks Joe Orlando

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Captain Kaye and his crew spot a derelict rocket ship, the Y-75, and close in to investigate, and discover it has been floating out in space for over 20 years. Going aboard, they discover to their surprise that this 2-man vessel had skeletons of many people on board, so they begin reading the ship's log to determine why. The log tells that the ship needed repairs and set down unknowingly on Elba-II: an exile planet full of prisoners. The prisoners had taken over the ship and forced the crew to take them back to Earth. The captain refused and jettisoned the fuel leaving them to die in space.

Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).