Strange Adventures
#166
(July 1964)
DC,
1950 Series
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1964-05-28
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- National Periodical Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Superman DC National Comics
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- Jack Schiff (credited) (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from ad in House of Mystery #144 and copyright registration.
[Space Pets for Sale!]
cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The Earthling fool!
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
-
in Titanes Planetarios (Editorial Novaro, 1953 series) #207 (1 de mayo de 1965)
-
[no title indexed]
Best Values Coins and Currency / advertisement / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Reward $11,750.00 for this coin!
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover.
I Lived in Two Bodies!
Split Man / comic story / 8.67 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Go, big bird--go!
- Genre
- adventure; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Cliff Battles
- Synopsis
- Explorer Cliff Battles is stranded in the jungle after a plane crash, and is given a golden belt by the natives that enables him to split into two men so that he can determine the safest way back to civilization.
- Reprints
- in Titanes Planetarios (Editorial Novaro, 1953 series) #207 (1 de mayo de 1965)
-
in Mighty Comic (K. G. Murray, 1960 series) #69 ([Circa February 1969])
-
Indexer Notes
First Split Man story; see also Strange Adventures #203.
[Tootsie Roll Fudge]
Tootsie [all other candies] / comics-form advertising / 0.33 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I like chocolate fudge best!
- Feature Logo
- Tootsie Roll Fudge
Learn from Your Hobbies!
public service announcement / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Look what I've got, Jim-- a stamp from Nepal!
- Genre
- advocacy
- Synopsis
- Jim learns that people's hobbies can help them in their school work and can be interesting, too.
Indexer Notes
The PSA is produced in sequential-arts comics format in cooperation with the National Social Welfare Assembly.
Watch for the First Superboy 80 Page Annual!
Superboy / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
Indexer Notes
house ad for Superboy Annual (DC, 1964 series) #1
The Hermit Who Haunted Mt. Menace
comic story / 7.67 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- That mountain looks so frightening--let's turn back!
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Synopsis
- Two thieves return to the mountain cave where they hid the loot from an old robbery and encounter a weird old hermit who claims that the mountain is alive.
- Reprints
- in Titanes Planetarios (Editorial Novaro, 1953 series) #207 (1 de mayo de 1965)
-
[no title indexed]
Tootsie Roll / comics-form advertising / 0.33 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Tootsie Rolls go on and on after other candy is gone!
[no title indexed]
Peter Puptent, Explorer / comic story / 0.67 page
- Script
- Henry Boltinoff (signed as
Henry Boltinoff) - Pencils
- Henry Boltinoff (signed as Henry Boltinoff)
- Inks
- Henry Boltinoff (signed as Henry Boltinoff)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Henry Boltinoff (signed as Henry Boltinoff)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- These ancient gods control the destiny of my people.
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Peter Puptent
- Reprints
- in Titanes Planetarios (Editorial Novaro, 1953 series) #207 (1 de mayo de 1965)
-
[no title indexed]
House of Secrets; House of Mystery / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.33 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- For the very best...
[no title indexed]
promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Be first in your neighborhood...
[no title indexed]
Strange but True / text article / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- In France, in the early 17th century, Louis Gaufridi...
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; non-fiction
Space Pets for Sale!
comic story / 7.67 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I can't escape!
- Genre
- science fiction
- Synopsis
- Mike Barnaby finds a crashed spaceship with alien animals aboard. He sells them as pets but they are really disguised criminals who steal radioactive material.
- Reprints
- in Titanes Planetarios (Editorial Novaro, 1953 series) #207 (1 de mayo de 1965)
-
[Tootsie Roll Pop]
Tootsie [all other candies] / advertisement / 0.33 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- What makes a Tootsie Pop so special?
- Feature Logo
- Tootsie Roll Pop
The Whole Batman Family!
Batman / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page
- Genre
- superhero
Indexer Notes
house ad for Batman Annual (DC, 1961 series) #7, on sale May 28
[no title indexed]
Palisades Amusement Park Admission / advertisement / 0.5 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Be my guest at Palisades Amusement Park, New Jersey.
- Characters
- Superman (cameo)
[no title indexed]
American Body Building Club / advertisement / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Brother, can you spare a dime 10¢?
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[Space Pets for Sale!]
-
1.
["Reward $11,750.00 for this coin!"]
Best Values Coins and Currency -
2.
I Lived in Two Bodies!
Split Man -
3.
[Tootsie Roll Fudge]
Tootsie [all other candies] -
4.
Learn from Your Hobbies!
-
5.
Watch for the First Superboy 80 Page Annual!
Superboy -
6.
The Hermit Who Haunted Mt. Menace
-
7.
["Tootsie Rolls go on and on after other candy is gone!"]
Tootsie Roll -
8.
["These ancient gods control the destiny of my people."]
Peter Puptent, Explorer -
9.
["For the very best..."]
House of Secrets; House of Mystery -
10.
["Be first in your neighborhood..."]
-
11.
["In France, in the early 17th century, Louis Gaufridi..."]
Strange but True -
12.
Space Pets for Sale!
-
13.
[Tootsie Roll Pop]
Tootsie [all other candies] -
14.
The Whole Batman Family!
Batman -
15.
["Be my guest at Palisades Amusement Park, New Jersey."]
Palisades Amusement Park Admission -
16.
[no title indexed]
Ant Farm -
17.
["Brother, can you spare a dime 10¢?"]
American Body Building Club -
18.
["Boy and girls!"]
Aurora Products
This issue was modified by, among others
- Dwayne Best
- Chris Boyko
- Gregory Fischer
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Donald Dale Milne
- Brian Stewart
- Jim Van Dore
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