Strange Adventures #26

(November 1952)

You Get What You Vote For! (Table of Contents)

Buzzy / public service announcement / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jack Schiff ?

Pencils:

Win Mortimer

Inks:

Win Mortimer

Letters:

Ira Schnapp

Content Information

Genre:

teen; fact

Characters:

Buzzy Brown; Mr. Brown

Synopsis:

Joe discovers you can't get what you want if you don't vote.

Indexer Notes

inside front cover; this PSA later appeared in DC comics cover-dated January 1964

Captain Comet vs. Miss Universe! (Table of Contents)

Captain Comet / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

John Broome

Pencils:

Murphy Anderson

Inks:

Bernard Sachs

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Captain Comet; Miss Universe; Professor Zackro

Synopsis:

A super-powered girl from the year 100,000 arrives and shows up Captain Comet at every turn.

Gateway to the Future! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5.67 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Gardner Fox

Pencils:

Bob Oksner

Inks:

Bernard Sachs

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Synopsis:

Captain Robert Trent is transported from the Revolutionary War into the future of 1952 where he gathers information on future technology to help George Washington's army in his own time. But when he returns, none of the future inventions work and Washington dismissed him as a madman.

Scientific Word Origins (Table of Contents)

filler / 0.5 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Mort Drucker ?

Inks:

Mort Drucker ?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

fact

Synopsis:

Origins of the words "amoeba," "Fahrenheit," and "fossil."

Indexer Notes

Art attribution by Ger Apeldoorn (March 2011).

Mankind's Greatest Inventions and Discoveries! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Mort Drucker

Inks:

Mort Drucker

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

fact

Synopsis:

Depiction of four of the greatest scientific discoveries in history, accompanied by a request for readers to send in their own lists of the four greatest discoveries.

The Master of Mind over Matter! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jack Miller

Pencils:

Gil Kane

Inks:

John Giunta

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Elmo the Great; Derek Blake

Synopsis:

Derek Blake discovers the secret of Elmo the Great's powers.

Reprinted:

• in Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #396 (February 1970)
• in Century Comic (K. G. Murray, 1961 series) #65

Around the World in One Hour and Twenty-Three Minutes! (Table of Contents)

Spotlight on Science / text article / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

? (logo illustration)

Inks:

? (logo illustration)

Colors:

? (logo illustration)

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

fact

New -- and Great! (Table of Contents)

Big Town / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Gil Kane

Inks:

Bernard Sachs

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

crime

Indexer Notes

house ad for Big Town (DC, 1951 series) #18, with a reminder to watch the Big Town television series Thursday nights on the CBS network

Big Features In One Big Book! (Table of Contents)

promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Win Mortimer

Inks:

Win Mortimer

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Indexer Notes

house ad for World's Finest Comics (DC, 1941 series) #61

Mars -- on Channel 8! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5.67 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Gardner Fox

Pencils:

Carmine Infantino

Inks:

Sy Barry

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Synopsis:

Bob Tarrant experments with his television set until he can receive transmissions from Mars. When washed-up movie director Eric Mills learns about this he kills Tarrant so that he can use the Martian transmissions as the basis for a new movie. However, he finds out that the Martians were using Tarrant, and now him, to help them invade Earth.