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Issue Details

Issue #113
Published February 1960
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Julius Schwartz

Cover Details - "The Deluge from Space!"

Pencils Gil Kane
Inks Gil Kane

8 page story "The Deluge from Space"

Synopsis While speculating on what Earth will do when radioactive waste accumulates to the point that it begins to contaminate the Earth, an alien from another dimension dumps radioactive waste water into our oceans.
Genre Science Fiction
Script Gardner Fox
Pencils Carmine Infantino
Inks Joe Giella
Notes Giella credit from error report; confirmed by Bob Bailey.

1 page Superboy public service announcement "It's Fun to Help Others"

Genre Superhero
Script Jack Schiff
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye

1 page Science Says You're Wrong If You Believe That... filler

Genre Fact

7 page story "Menace of the Shrinking Bomb"

Synopsis Science Fiction writer Gregory Farmer has a meeting with his editor Julian Sloan to discuss story ideas. After Gregory sells an idea to his editor, the same thing happens in real life. With Earth endangered, the people turn to the writer for his solution to the predicament, but he has disappeared.
Genre science fiction
Script Gardner Fox
Pencils Sid Greene
Inks Sid Greene
Notes Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics (April 2007).
Reprinted in From Beyond the Unknown (DC, 1969 series) #15 (February-March 1972)

Half page statement of ownership "Statement of Ownership"

Letters Typeset

1 page Spotlight on Science letters page

Letters Typeset

1 page filler "Amazing Ratios"

Genre Fact

9 page story "The Amazing Bridge of Light"

Synopsis A pair of aliens are captured at the North Pole. Since they won't talk about their mission, scientists start to analyze some of the devices in their ship.
Genre Science Fiction
Script Gardner Fox
Pencils Gil Kane
Inks Bernard Sachs