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Strange Adventures #86

DC · Series began 1950 · November 1957

Dates

Cover date
November 1957
On sale
September 22, 1957
Pages
36

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Gil Kane, Carmine Infantino, Bob Oksner, Ruben Moreira, Morris Waldinger, Martin Naydel, Frank Giacoia, Raymond Perry, Sid Greeneinks: Frank Giacoia, Bernard Sachs, Bob Oksner, Ruben Moreira, Joe Giella, Tom Nicolosi, Martin Naydel, Raymond Perryletters: Ira Schnapp, Milt Snapinn, Martin Naydelscript: John Broome, Jack Schiff, Otto Binder, Julius Schwartz, Martin Naydel, Gardner Fox

Stories

  • The Dog That Saved the Earth! · 6 pages
  • Interplanetary Space-Feud! · 6 pages

    Rhett Shaw returns to his rural village after studying science at college. Whit Carter challenges Shaw to a fight to continue the family feud. Shaw declines and suggests they forget the feud. Shaw drives home but is stopped by a force bubble. The aliens discuss their duel where they use the natural forces of a planet to fight. The villagers shelter in a cave to escape the battle. Shaw hears the aliens telepathically and learns that they have each won 127 victories on other planets. Shaw discovers the alien weapons are vulnerable to nitric acid and they leave Earth after shaking hands.

  • The One-Hour Invasion of Earth! · 6 pages
  • Amazing Inertia! · 1 pages
  • The Weather War of 1977! · 6 pages

    Young Johnny Haldane is fishing when a stranger thanks him for saving his life. Johnny has never seen him before but the stranger says he will understand in time. All sightings of the stranger over the years are wrong. By 1977 John is a commander in the meteorological military. Controlling weather has taken the place of atomic warfare. John goes out on patrol and finds a man in a snow drift. The man tells John that he is from the year 3957 and must get back to his time machine. The man leaves and because he cannot return to the same time goes back a further 20 years to say thank you.

  • Science Snaps · 0.67 pages

Reprinted in

Adventures into the Unknown (1958), Showcase Presents: Strange Adventures (2008), Justice League of America (1960), Race for the Moon (1962), The Hundred Comic Monthly (1956)

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