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Issue Details

Issue #50
Published March 1959
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Julius Schwartz
Notes Cover pencils credit from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided to the GCD by DC Comics; the records imply that Frank Giacoia was paid for the inks (25 January 2008)

Cover Details - "The Runaway Space-Train!"

Genre science fiction
Pencils Gil Kane
Inks Joe Giella
Notes Cover pencils credit from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided to the GCD by DC Comics; the records imply that Frank Giacoia was paid for the inks (25 January 2008)

9 page story "The Runaway Space-Train"

Genre science fiction
Script Gardner Fox
Pencils Gil Kane
Inks Bernard Sachs
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) #6 (August-September 1970)

1 page public service announcement "The Family Favorite"

Notes Sequence added by Ed Boner, January 2009.

7 page story "Earth...Condemned World"

Script Otto Binder
Pencils John Giunta
Inks John Giunta
Reprinted in Strange Adventures (DC, 1950 series) #227 (November-December 1970)

1 page Giants of the Telescope filler "Giovanni Donati"

Genre Fact
Notes Information for this sequence from Arthur Lortie, September 2008. Location from Ed Boner, January 2009.

1 page Wonders of Space letters page

Letters typeset
Notes Letters asking scientific questions and responses. Sequence added by Ed Boner, January 2009.

7 page story "Riddle of Asteroid 8794"

Genre science fiction
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Frank Giacoia
Inks Frank Giacoia
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) #9 (February-March 1971)