Strange Adventures #114

(March 1960)

Secret of the Flying Buzz-Saw (Table of Contents)

comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Gardner Fox

Pencils:

Russ Heath

Inks:

Russ Heath

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Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Rick Jordan

Synopsis:

An alien work crew comes to earth and starts leveling buildings, but it's all for the purpose of saving Earth. The aliens know that a white dwarf star is on a collision course with Earth so they want to mount a cannon to deflect the star from its path. But they miss. Earth's last chance is Rick Jordan, who's invented the Graviton, a device that can create a temporary zero gravity field and allow Rick to plant explosives on the dwarf star.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Super DC Giant (DC, 1970 series) #27 (Summer 1976)
• in DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest (DC, 1980 series) #14 (October 1981)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Science Says You're Wrong if You Believe That... / filler / 1 page (report information)

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[Showcase #25 ad] (Table of Contents)

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

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Buzzy's "Famous Books" Quiz (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Jack Schiff

Pencils:

Ruben Moreira

Inks:

Ruben Moreira

Colors:

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Letters:

Ira Schnapp

Content Information

Genre:

Teen

The Man Who Created Himself (Table of Contents)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Gardner Fox

Pencils:

Sid Greene

Inks:

Sid Greene

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Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Synopsis:

Frank Barrows wakes to the sound of a voice from 3000 years in the future telling him that Earth depends on Frank following his commands. Frank finds his apartment full of advanced equipment that he uses to build an android duplicate of himself. When complete, this duplicate is transported to the future, and since their brains are identical Frank and the android can communicate with each other across time. In the future, the android is told that light-beings from Aldebaran are in Earth's atmosphere "inhaling" the argon and "exhaling" monargon, a poisonous waste. Future historical records show that Frank Barrows had developed a technology that could help deal with the problem, but there were no details. Unfortunately, the android duplicates a Frank before he had started that research. So Frank tries to figure out where his current research would have taken him. Through atomic manipulation, Frank is able to knock an electron off an argon atom and get poisonous chlorine. Poisoned, the light-beings disappear, and Earth is saved.

Reprints:

• in Superman Presents Tip Top Comic Monthly (K. G. Murray, 1965 ? series) #75 ([circa 1971-1972])

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Amazing Ratios / filler / 1 page (report information)

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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Spotlight on Science / letters page / 1 page (report information)

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?

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Typeset

The Case of the Martian Witness (Table of Contents)

Star Hawkins / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

John Broome

Pencils:

Mike Sekowsky

Inks:

Bernard Sachs

Colors:

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Letters:

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Content Information

Genre:

science fiction; detective

Characters:

Star Hawkins (introduction): Ilda

Synopsis:

Star's luck is holding steady. He hasn't had a case in a week and he's had to pawn Ilda, his robot secretary. Luckily, Star is hired to locate a fugitive who's thought to be hiding on Vesta, an asteroid mining settlement, in the Red Jungle. But with a little tracking skill and the help of the creepy vegetation of the Red Jungle, he nabs the fugitive, gets his prisoner, and gets Ilda back from the pawn shop, promising never to pawn her again.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in All Star Adventure Comic (K. G. Murray, 1959 series) #68 ([April 1971] ?)
• in Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #444 (December-January 1975)