Strange Adventures #180

(September 1965)

40 Army-Navy-Marine Medals & Insignias (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

advertisement / 1 page (report information)

I Was the Man with Animal Powers (Table of Contents: 2)

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

Script

Dave Wood

Pencils

Carmine Infantino

Inks

George Roussos

Colors

?

Letters

Stan Starkman

Genre

science fiction; superhero

Characters

Buddy Baker (origin); Ellen (Buddy's financee); Roger (Buddy's friend); alien creature (villain)

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.

Reprints

• in Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #412 (November 1971)
• in Aventures Fiction (Arédit-Artima, 1966 series) #28 (février 1973) [N&B et recadré/B&W and reframed]
• in DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest (DC, 1980 series) #22 (June 1982)
• in Weird Secret Origins (DC, 2004 series) (October 2004)
• in DC Universe Secret Origins (DC, 2013 series) ([June] 2013)
• in DC Comics Graphic Novel Collection (Eaglemoss Publications, 2015 series) #95 - Animal Man ([Dezember 2016])

Indexer Notes

Script credit from Martin O'Hearn. Story is told in two chapters of 8.67 and 6.67 pages.

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.

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G. I. Joe / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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Tootsie Roll Pop / advertisement / 0.33 page (report information)

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Palisades Amusement Park / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

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Little Pete / comic story / 0.5 page (report information)

Script

Henry Boltinoff

Pencils

Henry Boltinoff

Inks

Henry Boltinoff

Colors

?

Letters

Henry Boltinoff

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Billy is up at bat now...

Genre

humor

Characters

Little Pete

Reprints

• from The Doom Patrol (DC, 1964 series) #92 (December 1964)

Indexer Notes

On the page immediately following page 9 of the previous story sequence.

Nature's Bill of Rights (Table of Contents: 7)

public service announcement / 1 page (report information)

Script

Jack Schiff

Pencils

Sheldon Moldoff

Inks

Sheldon Moldoff

Colors

?

Letters

Ira Schnapp

Genre

advocacy

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.

Indexer Notes

On the page immediately preceding page 10 of the previous story sequence.

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Tootsie Roll Pop / advertisement / 0.33 page (report information)

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

Script

Jack Miller ?

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

In the winter of 1829, the schooner Mermaid, out of Australia...

Genre

fantasy-supernatural

The Kat Gets Cooled! (Table of Contents: 10) (Expand) /

AMT / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

Achtung! Attention! (Table of Contents: 11) (Expand) /

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

One Monster -- Coming Up (Table of Contents: 12)

comic story / 7.67 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

George Roussos

Inks

George Roussos

Colors

?

Letters

Stan Starkman

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

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

Keywords

monsters

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

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Tootsie Roll / advertisement / 0.33 page (report information)

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Mystery in Space; House of Secrets / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.33 page (report information)

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

Script

Henry Boltinoff

Pencils

Henry Boltinoff (signed)

Inks

Henry Boltinoff

Colors

?

Letters

Henry Boltinoff

First Line of Dialogue or Text

At last! I have finished the perfect electronic brain!

Genre

humor; science fiction

Characters

Professor Eureka

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Tales of the Unexpected; Metamorpho / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.33 page (report information)

10 Issues of Strange Adventures for Only $1.00 (Table of Contents: 18) (Expand) /

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

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Wallace Brown, Inc. / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Go Full-Throttle with Wen-Mac (Table of Contents: 20) (Expand) /

Wen-Mac / advertisement / 1 page (report information)