(April-May 1973)
DC,
1969 Series
- Volume
- 5
- Price
- 0.20 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- Bi-Monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1973-02-08
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- National Periodical Publications, Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [circle]
- Editing
- Julius Schwartz (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Comic Reader #93.
[no title indexed]
cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Murphy Anderson; Jack Adler (photograph)
- Inks
- Murphy Anderson; Jack Adler (photograph)
- Colors
- Jack Adler
- Job Number
- S-1447
- Genre
- science fiction
Indexer Notes
Credits for pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
Credit for photograph from the letters page of issue #24. Location: Third Avenue, a block south of DC's editorial office.
You Stole Our Planet
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Ruben Moreira (as Amilcar Ruben Moreira) (signed)
- Inks
- Ruben Moreira (as Amilcar Ruben Moreira) (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- S-1443
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Alec; Marcus; Intalla; Bwhalli
- Synopsis
- Working on a way to create a barrier against nuclear fallout, two scientists are visited by creatures accusing humans of having stolen their world. Eventually the creatures realize they are not on their planet and the scientists reverse their experiment, sending the creatures back to their universe.
- Reprints
-
from Tales of the Unexpected (DC, 1956 series) #20 (December 1957)
-
Indexer Notes
Credits for pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
The Martian Joke!
comic story / 3.67 pages
- Script
- Mann Rubin (signed)
- Pencils
- Jim Mooney (signed)
- Inks
- Jim Mooney (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- S-1444
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Exerel; Bud Hadley
- Synopsis
- Martians don't know how to laugh! So they send a martian, Exerel, to find the secret of laughter. Meeting Bud Hadley, an ex-comedian hunted by police, Exerel bargains with him for the secret.
- Reprints
- from Strange Adventures (DC, 1950 series) #24 (September 1952)
-
Indexer Notes
Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
[no title indexed]
Messages from Beyond / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Julius Schwartz (credited as JS)
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- S-1455
Indexer Notes
Letters of comment from readers David Dasch, Laura Zane and Scott W. Schumack.
How Can Time Be Stopped?
Star Rovers / comic story / 12.67 pages
- Script
- Gardner Fox
- Pencils
- Sid Greene
- Inks
- Sid Greene
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- S-1445
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Star Rovers [Rick Purvis; Karel Sorensen; Homer Glint]
- Synopsis
- The Rovers must figure out how to stop the lizard aliens who are planning to conquer Earth with a time-weapon that has already turned Homer into an old man and Karel into a teenager.
- Reprints
- from Strange Adventures (DC, 1950 series) #163 (April 1964)
-
Indexer Notes
Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
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Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
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1.
You Stole Our Planet
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2.
The Martian Joke!
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3.
[no title indexed]
Messages from Beyond -
4.
How Can Time Be Stopped?
Star Rovers
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