''Weird Worlds'' is an American comic book

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anthology series published by

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that originally ran from 1972 to 1974 for a total of 10 issues. The title's name was partially inspired by the sales success of ''

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'' and ''

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''. A second series was published in 2011.

Original series

''Weird Worlds'' published features based on writer Edgar Rice Burroughs' creations which DC had obtained the licensing rights. This included the "

John Carter of Mars John Carter of Mars is a fictional Virginian soldier who acts as the initial protagonist of the Barsoom stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs. A veteran of the American Civil War, he is transported to the planet Mars, called Barsoom by its inhabita ...

" feature, by scripter

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and artist

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, which moved from ''

Tarzan Tarzan (John Clayton II, Viscount Greystoke) is a fictional character, an archetypal feral child raised in the African jungle by the Mangani great apes; he later experiences civilization, only to reject it and return to the wild as a heroic adv ...

'' #209, and the "

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" feature from '' Korak, Son of Tarzan'' #46 drawn by Alan Weiss,

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, and Dan Green. These features ran until issue #7 (October 1973) until it became economically infeasible for DC to continue publishing so many adaptations of Burroughs' work. "John Carter" would re-appear in ''Tarzan Family'' #62–64 and "Pellucidar" in ''Tarzan Family'' #66. A new feature began in issue #8,

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and

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, which ran through issue #10. The release of the last issue of ''Weird Worlds'' was delayed for several months due to a nationwide paper shortage. The ''Weird Worlds'' stories were reprinted in an ''Ironwolf'' one-shot in March 1987.

Second series

The title was relaunched in March 2011 and ran for six issues. It featured Lobo and two new characters:

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's Garbage Man and Kevin Maguire's Tanga. In September 2011,

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rebooted DC's continuity. In this new timeline, the characters appeared in the title ''

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''.

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