Strange Adventures (1950 series) (DC) #205

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Field	Previous	Change / Next
Number	205	205
Volume
No Volume	No	Yes
Display Volume With Number	No	No
Indicia Publisher	National Periodical Publications, Inc.	National Periodical Publications, Inc.
Indicia Publisher Not Printed	Printed	Printed
Brand	Superman DC National Comics	Superman DC National Comics
No Brand	No	No
Publication Date	October 1967	October 1967
Key Date	1967-10-10	1967-10-00
Year On Sale	None	None
Month On Sale	None	None
Day On Sale	None	None
On Sale Date Uncertain	No	No
Indicia Frequency		monthly
No Indicia Frequency	No	No
Price	0.12 USD	0.12 USD
Page Count	36	36 (note: total sum of story page counts is 26)
Page Count Uncertain	No	No
Editing	Jack Miller	Jack Miller
No Editing
Notes
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Sequence 0

Field	Previous	Change / Next
Sequence Number	0	0
Title		Introducing Deadman
Unofficial Title?	No	No
Type	cover	cover
Feature	Deadman	Deadman
Genre	occult	occult
Job Number
Script	Arnold Drake	Arnold Drake
No Script
Pencils	Arnold Drake (layout); Carmine Infantino	Arnold Drake (layout); Carmine Infantino (signed)
No Pencils
Inks	George Roussos	George Roussos (signed)
No Inks
Colors	?	?
No Colors
Letters	?	?
No Letters
Editing
No Editing	X	X
Page Count	1	1
Page Count Uncertain	No	No
Characters	Deadman	Deadman [Boston Brand]; the Hook (partial)
Synopsis
Reprint Notes	in Deadman Collection, The (DC, 2001 series) #[nn]	in The Deadman Collection (DC, 2001 series) #[nn]
Notes	Script and layout credits from Henry R. Kujawa, 9/25/2006.	Script and layout credits from Henry R. Kujawa, 9/25/2006.
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Sequence 1

Field	Previous	Change / Next
Sequence Number	1	1
Title	Who Has Been Lying In My Grave?	Who Has Been Lying In My Grave?
Unofficial Title?	No	No
Type	comic story	comic story
Feature	Deadman	Deadman
Genre	Occult	occult
Job Number
Script	Arnold Drake	Arnold Drake
No Script
Pencils	Carmine Infantino	Carmine Infantino
No Pencils
Inks	George Roussos	George Roussos
No Inks
Colors	?	?
No Colors
Letters	?	?
No Letters
Editing
No Editing	X	X
Page Count	17	16
Page Count Uncertain	No	No
Characters	Deadman [Boston Brand] (introduction, origin); Miss Goosebumps [Lorna]; Tiny; Vashnu; Heldrich; Leary; Toby; Rama Kushna; Constable Ramsey	Deadman [Boston Brand] (introduction, origin); Lorna Hill; Tiny; Vashnu; Heldrich; Leary; Toby; Rama Kushna; Constable Ramsey
Synopsis	Shot during a performance, trapeze artist Boston Brand dies, only to find that his spirit lives on with the ability to inhabit the bodies of others. By the will of Rama Kushna his spirit will walk among the living until his killer is found.	Shot during a performance, trapeze artist Boston Brand dies, only to find that his spirit lives on with the ability to inhabit the bodies of others. By the will of Rama Kushna his spirit will walk among the living until his killer is found.
Reprint Notes	in Brave and the Bold, The (DC, 1955 series) #97 (August-September 1971) in DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest (DC, 1980 series) #5 (November-December 1980) in Deadman (DC, 1985 series) #1 (May 1985) in DC Comics Presents: Brightest Day (DC, 2010 series) #1 in Deadman Collection, The (DC, 2001 series) #[nn]	in The Brave and the Bold (DC, 1955 series) #97 (August-September 1971) in DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest (DC, 1980 series) #5 (November-December 1980) in Deadman (DC, 1985 series) #1 (May 1985) in The Deadman Collection (DC, 2001 series) #[nn] in DC Comics Presents: Brightest Day (DC, 2010 series) #1 in Deadman (DC, 2011 series) #1 (May 2011)
Notes	Deadman created by Arnold Drake; Deadman's costume designed by Carmine Infantino.	Deadman created by Arnold Drake; Deadman's costume designed by Carmine Infantino. Story told in two chapters each ending in 1/2 page.
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Sequence 2

Field	Added / Next
Sequence Number	2
Title	Ghost Canine
Unofficial Title?	Yes
Type	text article
Feature	Strange But True
Genre
Job Number
Script	Jack Miller ?
No Script
Pencils
No Pencils	X
Inks
No Inks	X
Colors
No Colors	X
Letters	typeset
No Letters
Editing
No Editing	X
Page Count	1
Page Count Uncertain	No
Characters
Synopsis
Reprint Notes
Notes
Keywords
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Sequence 3

Field	Added / Next
Sequence Number	3
Title	Meet Bat-Swami and Super-Seer!
Unofficial Title?	No
Type	promo (ad from the publisher)
Feature	Superman and Batman with Robin
Genre	superhero
Job Number
Script	?
No Script
Pencils	Curt Swan; Dick Sprang
No Pencils
Inks	Stan Kaye
No Inks
Colors	?
No Colors
Letters	Ira Schnapp
No Letters
Editing
No Editing	X
Page Count	1
Page Count Uncertain	No
Characters
Synopsis
Reprint Notes
Notes	house ad for World's Finest Comics (DC, 1941 series) #170 [80 Page Giant #G-40], on sale August 15
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Sequence 4

Field	Previous	Change / Next
Sequence Number	2	4
Title	War of the Mind Readers	War of the Mind Readers!
Unofficial Title?	No	No
Type	comic story	comic story
Feature
Genre		science fiction
Job Number
Script	Otto Binder	Otto Binder
No Script
Pencils	Carmine Infantino	Carmine Infantino
No Pencils
Inks	Bernard Sachs	Bernard Sachs
No Inks
Colors	?	?
No Colors
Letters	?	?
No Letters
Editing
No Editing	X	X
Page Count	6	5.5
Page Count Uncertain	No	No
Characters
Synopsis		A stage magician stops an invasion from the planet Uranus by tricking the aliens into believing that he really can read minds.
Reprint Notes	From Strange Adventures #65.	from Strange Adventures (DC, 1950 series) #65 (February 1956)
Notes
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Sequence 5

Field	Added / Next
Sequence Number	5
Title	"I see you use a pin in your cement tube..."
Unofficial Title?	Yes
Type	activity
Feature	Cap's Hobby Hints
Genre	fact
Job Number	6567
Script	Henry Boltinoff
No Script
Pencils	Henry Boltinoff (signed)
No Pencils
Inks	Henry Boltinoff
No Inks
Colors	?
No Colors
Letters	Henry Boltinoff
No Letters
Editing
No Editing	X
Page Count	0.5
Page Count Uncertain	No
Characters
Synopsis
Reprint Notes
Notes	hint submitted by Charles Williams of Decatur, Georgia
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Sequence 6

Field	Added / Next
Sequence Number	6
Title
Unofficial Title?	No
Type	promo (ad from the publisher)
Feature	Direct Currents
Genre
Job Number
Script	?
No Script
Pencils	Carmine Infantino; Curt Swan (illustrations)
No Pencils
Inks	Murphy Anderson; George Klein (illustrations)
No Inks
Colors	?
No Colors
Letters	typeset
No Letters
Editing
No Editing	X
Page Count	1
Page Count Uncertain	No
Characters
Synopsis
Reprint Notes
Notes	listing of DC comics on sale in early September 1967; includes cover art for Batman (DC, 1940 series) #196 and World's Finest Comics (DC, 1941 series) #171
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Comments

Commenter	Comment	Timestamp	Old State	New State
Dwayne Best	Editing	2011-12-24 04:50:12	Available	Editing
Dwayne Best		2012-01-01 00:47:56	Editing	Pending Review
Donald Dale Milne		2012-01-02 03:05:06	Pending Review	Under Review
Donald Dale Milne		2012-01-02 03:05:11	Under Review	Approved

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