Strange Adventures #169

(October 1964)

Smoking is for Squares! (Table of Contents)

public service announcement / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jack Schiff

Pencils:

Sheldon Moldoff

Inks:

Sheldon Moldoff

Letters:

Ira Schnapp

Content Information

Genre:

fact

Synopsis:

Paulette Breen (winner of the Palisades Amusement Park's Miss American Teenager contest) tells Bob and his friends that girls don't like guys who smoke.

Indexer Notes

inside front cover; published in cooperation with the National Social Welfare Assembly

Prisoners of the Hour Glass (Table of Contents)

comic story / 7.67 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Howard Sherman

Inks:

Howard Sherman

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Synopsis:

Two shipwrecked fishermen find themselves on an island where a strange old man claims to have discovered the secret of immortality.

["I will now walk on these hot coals!"] (Table of Contents)

Moolah the Mystic / comic story / 0.5 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Henry Boltinoff

Pencils:

Henry Boltinoff (signed)

Inks:

Henry Boltinoff

Colors:

?

Letters:

Henry Boltinoff

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Moolah the Mystic

The Criminal Who Couldn't Do Evil! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 8.67 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Jack Sparling

Inks:

Jack Sparling

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

occult

Synopsis:

Small-time crook Eddie Kearns steals a magic ring that gives him super-strength, but every time he tries to pull off a robbery, he ends up saving people from disaster.

["In the late 1800s, an Oklahoma farmer buried a large quantity of gold..."] (Table of Contents)

Strange But True / text article / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jack Miller ?

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

occult

Stop! Treacherous Traps! (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Carmine Infantino

Inks:

Murphy Anderson

Colors:

?

Letters:

Ira Schnapp

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Indexer Notes

house ad for 80 Page Giant (DC, 1964 series) #4, on sale August 20

The Secret of Robot X-1! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 7.67 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Mort Meskin (signed)

Inks:

Mort Meskin

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Synopsis:

Scientist Charles Grayson secretly attempts to improve upon a newly-deployed robot policeman but his lab assistant uses the new robot to frame Grayson for theft.

Reprints:

• in Superman Presents Tip Top Comic Monthly (K. G. Murray, 1965 ? series) #43 ([circa 1968-1970])