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)

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)

["Billy is up at bat now..."] (Table of Contents: 6)

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

Script:

Henry Boltinoff

Pencils:

Henry Boltinoff

Inks:

Henry Boltinoff

Colors:

?

Letters:

Henry Boltinoff

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)

["In the winter of 1829, the schooner Mermaid, out of Australia..."] (Table of Contents: 9)

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

Script:

Jack Miller ?

Letters:

typeset

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

["See Lois Lane challenge her rivals for Superman in..."] (Table of Contents: 13) (Expand) /

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)

["For the very best..."] (Table of Contents: 15) (Expand) /

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

["At last! I have finished the perfect electronic brain!"] (Table of Contents: 16)

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

Script:

Henry Boltinoff

Pencils:

Henry Boltinoff (signed)

Inks:

Henry Boltinoff

Colors:

?

Letters:

Henry Boltinoff

Genre:

humor; science fiction

Characters:

Professor Eureka

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

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