Strange Adventures
#191
(August 1966)
DC,
1950 Series
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1966-06-30
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- National Periodical Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Superman DC National Comics
- Editing
- Jack Schiff (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Adventure Comics #347 and copyright registration.
Beauty vs. the Beast
The Enchantress / comic story / 7.67 pages
- Script
- Bob Haney
- Pencils
- Jay Scott Pike (signed as P)
- Inks
- Jay Scott Pike (signed as P)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Stan Starkman
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Enchantress [June Moone]; Alan Dale
- Synopsis
- The Enchantress travels to Cape Kennedy when she hears about a giant monster threatening the launch of a rocket to Venus.
- Reprints
-
in Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #419 (May 1972) -
in Superman Presents World's Finest Comic Monthly (K. G. Murray, 1965 series) #92 (December 1972) -
in Aventures Fiction (Arédit-Artima, 1966 series) #44 (2ème trimestre 1975) [N&B et recadré/B&W and reframed]
-
Indexer Notes
Art credits from Mike Tiefenbacher. There is a "P" on the bottom right corner of the splash in the same style as Pike's signature. We formerly credited Howard Purcell.
The Policeman Is Your Friend!
public service announcement / 1 page
- Genre
- advocacy
- Synopsis
- Tim convinces Pete to ask Officer Perry about Pete's lost dog, because policemen do many more things than fight crime.
Indexer Notes
published in cooperation with the National Social Welfare Assembly
The Living Painting
comic story / 7.67 pages
- Genre
- crime; horror-suspense
- Synopsis
- A thief steals a painting which seems to bring him good fortune -- for a time.
Indexer Notes
Newman script per biblio in Robin Snyder's The Comics, Vol. 31, No. 5, May 2020. Previous indexer credited Dace Wood.
[The Living Man's Ghost]
Strange but True / text article / 1 page
- Script
- Jack Miller ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural; non-fiction
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
The Alien Prince!
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1.
Beauty vs. the Beast
The Enchantress -
2.
The Policeman Is Your Friend!
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3.
The Living Painting
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4.
Do You Believe in Ghosts?
Tomahawk -
5.
[The Living Man's Ghost]
Strange but True -
6.
The Alien Prince!
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7.
Draggin'? Complainin'?
This issue was modified by, among others
- Dwayne Best
- Nick Caputo
- Gregory Fischer
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Donald Dale Milne
- Mike Nielsen
- Jim Van Dore
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