Strange Adventures #190

(July 1966)

Dynamite's Coming! (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

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

A-Man -- The Hero with Animal Powers (Table of Contents: 2)

Animal Man / comic story / 12.34 pages (report information)

Script

Dave Wood

Pencils

Carmine Infantino

Inks

George Roussos

Colors

?

Letters

Stan Starkman

First Line of Dialogue or Text

I asked for it-- no denying that!

Genre

superhero

Characters

A-Man [Buddy Baker]; Roger Denning; Grabo

Synopsis

Buddy Baker uses his animal powers to fight crime and learns the limitations of those powers as he pursues a gang of crooks who have a machine that can telepathically control animals.

Reprints

• in Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #415 (February 1972)
which is reprinted
• in Superman Presents Adventure Comics (K. G. Murray, 1982 series) #7 ([1982])
• in Démon (Arédit-Artima, 1976 series) #9 (2ème trimestre 1979) [Noir & Blanc et remonté [Black & White and reframed]]

Indexer Notes

Third Animal Man story; previously in Strange Adventures #180 and #184. First in costume, but using the name of A-Man. Pages 7 & 13 are 0.67 story & 0.33 ads.

Natural Beauty -- Everybody's Fight (Table of Contents: 3)

public service announcement / 1 page (report information)

Script

Jack Schiff; Lyndon Johnson

Pencils

Morris Waldinger ?

Inks

Tom Nicolosi ?

Colors

?

Letters

Gaspar Saladino

First Line of Dialogue or Text

President Johnson says: 'At first there seemed to be no end to the wonder of the land.

Genre

non-fiction; nature

Synopsis

Excerpts from a speech by President Lyndon Johnson regarding the preservation of nature.

Indexer Notes

Published in cooperation with the National Social Welfare Assembly, in comics form.

Immortal Man (Table of Contents: 4)

Immortal Man / comic story / 11.67 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Jack Sparling

Inks

Jack Sparling

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

My 'shocker' blast can topple a mountain-- it's bound to knock this beast out of action!

Genre

adventure; fantasy-supernatural; superhero

Characters

Kirk Jason [Immortal Man]; Helen Phelps

Synopsis

The Immortal Man uses his powers against a strange monster, sacrificing another of his lives to defeat it.

Reprints

• in Aventures Fiction (Arédit-Artima, 1966 series) #37 (septembre 1974) [N&B et recadré/B&W and reframed]

Indexer Notes

Third Immortal Man story (previously in Strange Adventures #177 and #185).

A 2nd Star Collection of the Strange Lives of Batman and Robin! (Table of Contents: 5) (Expand) /

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

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6)

statement of ownership / 0.33 page (report information)

Script

Irwin Donenfeld (credited)

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Statement of October 1, 1965
Average number of copies sold during preceding 12 months: 187,920
Actual number of copies sold for issue nearest filing date: 216,835
Owners: National Periodical Publications, Inc., Estate of Harry Donenfeld, J. S. Liebowitz, P. H. Sampliner, Irwin Donenfeld, S. U. Sampliner, Sonia Iger, all at 575 Lexington Ave, New York, N.Y., 10022

[Science Backs "Fable" of Loch Ness Monster] (Table of Contents: 7)

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

Script

Jack Miller ?

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

For hundreds of years, travelers have periodically reported sighting the frightening Loch Ness moster in the Scottish lake of the same name.

Genre

non-fiction