Strange Adventures #180

(September 1965)

I Was the Man with Animal Powers (Table of Contents)

Animal Man / comic story / 15.33 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Dave Wood

Pencils:

Carmine Infantino

Inks:

George Roussos

Colors:

?

Letters:

Stan Starkman

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction; superhero

Characters:

Buddy Baker; Ellen

Synopsis:

An alien space ship temporarily gives Buddy Baker animal powers, which he uses to round up escaped circus animals and fight an alien creature with the same powers.

Reprinted:

• in Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #412 (November 1971)
• in DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest (DC, 1980 series) #22 (June 1982)
• in Weird Secret Origins (DC, 2004 series) #[nn] (October 2004)

Indexer Notes

Script credit from Martin O'Hearn. Story is told in two chapters each ending in 2/3 page.
Story was not originally intended as a continuing feature: Animal Man is not named, does not appear in costume, and his powers are gone at the end of the story.

["Billy is up at bat now..."] (Table of Contents)

Little Pete / comic story / pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Henry Boltinoff

Pencils:

Henry Boltinoff

Inks:

Henry Boltinoff

Colors:

?

Letters:

Henry Boltinoff

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Little Pete

Nature's Bill of Rights (Table of Contents)

public service announcement / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jack Schiff

Pencils:

Sheldon Moldoff

Inks:

Sheldon Moldoff

Colors:

?

Letters:

Ira Schnapp

Content Information

Genre:

fact

Synopsis:

Two boys who are polluting a stream are given an anti-pollution lesson by a fisherman. Includes an excerpt from an 1869 Massachusetts Board of Health document.

["In the winter of 1829, the schooner Mermaid, out of Australia..."] (Table of Contents)

Strange But True / text article / pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jack Miller ?

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

occult

Achtung! Attention! (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Joe Kubert

Inks:

Joe Kubert

Colors:

?

Letters:

Ira Schnapp

Content Information

Genre:

war

Indexer Notes

house ad for Showcase (DC, 1956 series) #58, on sale July 29

One Monster -- Coming Up (Table of Contents)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

George Roussos

Inks:

George Roussos

Colors:

?

Letters:

Stan Starkman

Content Information

Genre:

monsters

Synopsis:

Wildcatters drilling for oil disturb an ancient Indian treasure, which releases the giant creature that guarded it.

See Lois Lane Challenge Her Rivals for Superman (Table of Contents)

Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.67 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Kurt Schaffenberger

Inks:

Kurt Schaffenberger

Colors:

?

Letters:

Ira Schnapp

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Indexer Notes

house ad for 80 Page Giant (DC, 1964 series) #14, on sale July 15

["At last! I have finished the perfect electronic brain!"] (Table of Contents)

Professor Eureka / comic story / 0.67 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Henry Boltinoff

Pencils:

Henry Boltinoff (signed)

Inks:

Henry Boltinoff

Colors:

?

Letters:

Henry Boltinoff

Content Information

Genre:

humor; science fiction

Characters:

Professor Eureka