Space Adventures
#39
(April 1961)
Charlton,
1958 Series
- Volume
- 3
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bimonthly
- On-sale Date
- 1960-12-13
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Charlton Comics Group
- Brand
-
A Charlton Publication
- Editing
- Pat Masulli (executive editor, editor); Burton Levey (credited as Burton N. Levey) (publisher); John Santangelo (credited) (business manager)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Bestsellers Vol15 #10 December 1960.
[no title indexed]
Captain Atom / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- science fiction; superhero
- Characters
- Captain Atom [Captain Adam]
- Reprints
-
in The Action Heroes Archives (DC, 2004 series) #1 ([October] 2004)
-
Indexer Notes
Images taken from interior stories.
Test-Pilot's Nightmare
Captain Atom / comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- 6785
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Captain Atom [Captain Allen Adam]; Dr. Hargus; Major Silberling
- Synopsis
- Captain Atom must save a test pilot when his experimental rocket-plane has problems.
- Reprints
-
in Creepy Worlds (Alan Class, 1962 series) #45 - in Strange Suspense Stories (Charlton, 1955 series) #76 (August 1965) which is reprinted
- in Space Adventures (Charlton, 1968 series) #12 (January 1979)
- in The Action Heroes Archives (DC, 2004 series) #1 ([October] 2004)
-
Indexer Notes
Gill credit confirmed by Robin Snyder.
The Third Man
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Joe Gill ?
- Pencils
- Bill Molno (signed as Moltra)
- Inks
- Sal Trapani (signed as Moltra)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Jon D'Agostino
- Job Number
- A-57
- Reprints
Peace Envoy
Captain Atom / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Joe Gill ?
- Pencils
- Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio
- Inks
- Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- A-83
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Captain Atom [Captain Allen Adam]; President of the United States; Edox (alien)
- Synopsis
- Captain Atom must stop an alien invasion.
- Reprints
- in Outer Space (Alan Class, 1961 ? series) #7
-
in Flash Gordon - Magazine (RGE, 1956 series) #67 (Dezembro 1967) - in Astounding Stories (Alan Class, 1966 series) #42 (1969 ?)
- in The Action Heroes Archives (DC, 2004 series) #1 ([October] 2004)
-
The Magic Box
text story / 1.87 pages
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Hugo Vansmyster (also mis-spelled Vansymster)
- Reprints
- in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #213 ([circa 1983 - 1984])
-
[no title indexed]
statement of ownership / 0.13 page
- Script
- Pat Masulli (credited as Patrick J. Masulli) (editor)
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
On the bottom of the first text-story page.
An Ageless Weapon
Captain Atom / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Joe Gill
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko (signed as Steve Ditko)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko (signed as Steve Ditko)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Jon D'Agostino
- Job Number
- 6821
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Captain Atom [Captain Adam]; President of the United States; General McGibbons; Franz; Vladimir Koss; Frieda
- Synopsis
- Captain Atom is captured by some East German agents while taking important papers to the West Berlin embassy.
- Reprints
- in Secrets of the Unknown (Alan Class, 1962 series) #45, #109, #109
- in Strange Suspense Stories (Charlton, 1955 series) #77 (October 1965)
- in Amazing Stories of Suspense (Alan Class, 1963 series) #64 ([circa 1968]), #128 ([circa 1972 - 1973])
- in Space Adventures (Charlton, 1968 series) #12 (January 1979)
- in The Action Heroes Archives (DC, 2004 series) #1 ([October] 2004)
- in The Hero Comics (Robin Snyder and Steve Ditko, 2017 series) #30 (Winter 2019-2020)
-
Indexer Notes
Gill credit confirmed by Robin Snyder.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Captain Atom -
1.
Test-Pilot's Nightmare
Captain Atom -
2.
The Third Man
-
3.
Peace Envoy
Captain Atom -
4.
The Magic Box
-
5.
[no title indexed]
-
6.
An Ageless Weapon
Captain Atom
This issue was modified by, among others
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Nick Caputo
- Bob Cherry
- Steve Coates
- Matthew Head
- Mike Nielsen
- Ramon Schenk
- Daniel Thingvold
- Richard Thomson
- Jim Van Dore
- Len Wolinsky
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