Strange Adventures
#180
(September 1965)
DC,
1950 Series
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1965-07-29
- 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
Issue Notes
On-sale date from ad in House of Secrets #74 and copyright registration.
40 Army-Navy-Marine Medals & Insignias
advertisement / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Letters
- ?
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover.
I Was the Man with Animal Powers
Animal Man / comic story / 15.33 pages
- 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])
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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.
[no title indexed]
G. I. Joe / advertisement / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
On the page between page 4 and page 5 of the previous story sequence.
[no title indexed]
Tootsie Roll Pop / advertisement / 0.33 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
Indexer Notes
At the bottom of page 9 of the previous story sequence.
[no title indexed]
Palisades Amusement Park / advertisement / 0.5 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
Indexer Notes
On the page immediately following page 9 of the previous story sequence.
[no title indexed]
Little Pete / comic story / 0.5 page
- 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)
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Indexer Notes
On the page immediately following page 9 of the previous story sequence.
Nature's Bill of Rights
public service announcement / 1 page
- 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.
[no title indexed]
Tootsie Roll Pop / advertisement / 0.33 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
[no title indexed]
Strange but True / text article / 1 page
- 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
Achtung! Attention!
Enemy Ace / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Joe Kubert
- Inks
- Joe Kubert
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Ira Schnapp
- Genre
- war
Indexer Notes
house ad for Showcase (DC, 1956 series) #58, on sale July 29
One Monster -- Coming Up
comic story / 7.67 pages
- 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
[no title indexed]
Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.67 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Kurt Schaffenberger
- Inks
- Kurt Schaffenberger
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Ira Schnapp
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- See Lois Lane challenge her rivals for Superman in...
- Genre
- superhero
Indexer Notes
house ad for 80 Page Giant (DC, 1964 series) #14, on sale July 15
on the page between page 6 and page 7 of the previous story sequence
[no title indexed]
Tootsie Roll / advertisement / 0.33 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
Indexer Notes
On the page between page 6 and page 7 of the previous story sequence.
[no title indexed]
Mystery in Space; House of Secrets / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.33 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- For the very best...
[no title indexed]
Professor Eureka / comic story / 0.67 page
- 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
[no title indexed]
Tales of the Unexpected; Metamorpho / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.33 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- For the very best...
10 Issues of Strange Adventures for Only $1.00
promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
Editing
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Table of Contents
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0.
I Was the Man with Animal Powers!
Animal Man -
1.
40 Army-Navy-Marine Medals & Insignias
-
2.
I Was the Man with Animal Powers
Animal Man -
3.
[no title indexed]
G. I. Joe -
4.
[no title indexed]
Tootsie Roll Pop -
5.
[no title indexed]
Palisades Amusement Park -
6.
["Billy is up at bat now..."]
Little Pete -
7.
Nature's Bill of Rights
-
8.
[no title indexed]
Tootsie Roll Pop -
9.
["In the winter of 1829, the schooner Mermaid, out of Australia..."]
Strange but True -
10.
The Kat Gets Cooled!
AMT -
11.
Achtung! Attention!
Enemy Ace -
12.
One Monster -- Coming Up
-
13.
["See Lois Lane challenge her rivals for Superman in..."]
Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane -
14.
[no title indexed]
Tootsie Roll -
15.
["For the very best..."]
Mystery in Space; House of Secrets -
16.
["At last! I have finished the perfect electronic brain!"]
Professor Eureka -
17.
["For the very best..."]
Tales of the Unexpected; Metamorpho -
18.
10 Issues of Strange Adventures for Only $1.00
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19.
[no title indexed]
Wallace Brown, Inc. -
20.
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