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Issue Details

Issue #55
Published November 1959
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Julius Schwartz
Notes Pencils credit from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided to the GCD by DC Comics (9 May 2008)

Cover Details - "The Beast From the Runaway World!"

Characters Adam Strange; Alanna
Genre Adventure; Science Fiction
Pencils Gil Kane
Inks Jack Adler (wash)
Notes Pencils credit from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided to the GCD by DC Comics (9 May 2008)
Reprinted in Adam Strange Archives, The (DC, 2004 series) #1 (February 2004)

8 page Adam Strange story "The Beast From the Runaway World"

Characters Adam Strange; Alanna; Zaradak (first appearance; villain)
Genre Adventure; Science Fiction
Script Gardner Fox
Pencils Carmine Infantino
Inks Bernard Sachs
Notes Pencils and inks credits from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided to the GCD by DC Comics (9 May 2008)
Reprinted in Strange Adventures (DC, 1950 series) #220 (September-October 1969); in Adam Strange Archives, The (DC, 2004 series) #1 (February 2004)

5 page story "The Day Earth Surrendered"

Script Gardner Fox
Pencils Mike Sekowsky
Inks Bernard Sachs
Notes Pencils and inks credits from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided to the GCD by DC Comics (9 May 2008)

9 page story "Behind the Space Curtain"

Script John Broome
Pencils Sid Greene
Inks Sid Greene
Notes Pencils and inks credits from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided to the GCD by DC Comics (9 May 2008)

1 page Giants of the Telescope filler "Heinrich Olbers"

Genre Fact
Notes Information for this sequence from Arthur Lortie, September 2008. Location of this sequence within this issue is unknown.