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Add to cart FR 1.0 $60.00 View scans Severe water damage. 2" Cumulative spine split. Cover detached. Staple rust/migration. Mold.

Cover pencils by Gil Kane, inks by Joe Giella. 2nd appearance of Adam Strange in Invaders from the Atom Universe, script by Gardner Fox, pencils by Mike Sekowsky, inks by Bernard Sachs; Adam is zeta-beamed to Rann, but pop-eyed green aliens inhabit the city!; Adam is thrown into an "Orkinomikron" to wake on a desolate atomic world, having been shrunk. Strange Satellites! fact half-page; facts about Jupiter's and Uranus's satellites. Giants of the Telescope fact page; Bernard Lyot built the first coronagraph to study the solar corona, and made observations of Mercury and Mars. Prize Stars! article; Facts about Proxima Centauri, Sirius, Beta Orionis, and other stars. The Dozen Dooms of Adam Strange, script by Gardner Fox, pencils by Mike Sekowsky, inks by Joe Giella; Adam rockets over a cop to meet the zeta beam; The new rage in Ranagar is Adam Strange full-size dolls. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 7.0 $450.00 View scans Paper: Off white Slab: Minor side/edge crack(s) Label #4185475008	Add to cart CGC 6.5 $430.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Label #3987936002	Add to cart VG+ 4.5 $195.00 View scans Water damage. Cover oxidation.	Add to cart CGC 3.0 $160.00 View scans Paper: Cream to off white Label #4320996019
Add to cart PR 0.5 $95.00 or Best Offer View scans INCOMPLETE. Page missing and coupon cut, interrupts art and story. 1/2" Spine split from top. Staple rust. Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout. Graded by MCS, not consignor.

3rd appearance of Adam Strange (and first Adam Strange logo). "Challenge of the Star-Hunter!", script by Gardner Fox, pencils by Mike Sekowsky, inks by Joe Giella; In Calcutta, India, Adam Strange is in the attendance of a number of explorers who wish to witness an ancient rope trick; When one of the locals explain that it's a trick, and nobody can disappear at the end of the rope, Adam Strange offers to prove him wrong; He manages to climb up in the air and - to everyones astonishment - disappear; However, none witnessing could guess that Adam really intercepted the next Zeta-Beam and is transported to Rann; Arriving on his adopted world, Adam finds himself greeted by Alanna and a delegation of people from Rann who inform Adam that a super-being known as Leothric has appeared and demanded to face Rann's chosen champion. The "End" of the Universe article. "Mystery of the Mental Menace!", script by Gardner Fox, pencils by Mike Sekowsky, inks by Sy Barry; Arriving in the African Veldt, Adam Strange prepares to intercept the next Zeta-Beam when he hears the cries of an explorer that is about to be trampled by a herd of elephants; He frees the man and manages to catch the next Zeta-Beam. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

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Cover art by Bob Brown. Prisoners of 100 Million B.C. featuring the origin and first appearance of Rip Hunter...Time Master, script by Jack Miller, art by Ruben Moreira; Having finished work on Time Sphere II, Rip Hunter and Jeff Smith do a test run back to the mesozoic era; Meanwhile, in the present day, crooks force Bonnie Baxter and her brother Corky to take them to Rip and Jeff in Time Sphere I; Meeting in the past, the crooks have the drop on Rip and crew, until battling dinosaurs separate the good guys from the bad; But when the heroes get back to their Time Sphere, they find it's gone missing. Do You Make Life Hard for Yourself? public service announcement, script by Jack Schiff, art by Bernard Baily. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 8.0 $640.00 View scans Paper: Off white Label #4363590024 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

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Cover pencils by Mike Sekowsky, inks by Joe Giella. 2nd appearance of Rip Hunter, Time Master in The Secret of the Lost Continent, script by Jack Miller, pencils by Mike Sekowsky, inks by Joe Giella; (Chapter 1.) Rip has an ancient tablet locating Atlantis, but the last line is obliterated; They journey to Alexandria in 331 BC, because Alexander the Great owned the tablet. Ad for Strange Adventures #106 and House of Secrets #22. Doctor Rocket humor half-page by Henry Boltinoff. The Forbidden Island, script by Jack Miller, pencils by Mike Sekowsky, inks by Joe Giella; Chapter 2; Alexander points the crew to the island of Aeaea, where the tablet came from; They journey there in 700 BC. Rip and Jeff fall into a pit trap. Ad for Blackhawk #138, pencils by Dick Dillin, inks by Sheldon Moldoff. Mystery of the Lost Lands article; educational piece on Atlantis and other fabled lost cities. Science Says You're Wrong... humor page by Mort Drucker. The Doomed Continent, script by Jack Miller, pencils by Mike Sekowsky, inks by Joe Giella; Chapter 3; The Time Sphere arrives in Atlantis in 14,000 BC, but it's a futuristic space city!; Orange aliens shoot ray guns, but the crew is saved by R'Dell's force field. Peter Puptent, Explorer humor page by Henry Boltinoff. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 0.1 $749.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white Coverless. Label #3900475015 Consignment. 3% buyer's premium charged at checkout.

Origin and 1st appearance of Hal Jordan (Silver Age Green Lantern). Cover and interior art by Gil Kane. SOS Green Lantern; Hal Jordan is selected by the power ring of Abin Sur to become a Green Lantern. Secret of the Flaming Spear!; Saboteurs try to crash a new experimental aircraft created by Ferris Aircraft. Menace of the Runaway Missile!; Green Lantern stops a missile launched by Dr. Parris at a government Hydrogen Power facility. Scripts by John Broome. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Add to cart CGC 4.5 $355.00 View scans Paper: Off white Label #2099011009

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2nd appearance of Green Lantern. Cover and interior pencils by Gil Kane, cover and interior inks by Joe Giella. Summons from Space!; Green Lantern travels to Venus to save a blue-skinned caveman-like race from attack by yellow Pterodactyl-like creatures. The Invisible Destroyer!; When Dr. Phillips is distracted, The Invisible Destroyer is released from his mind. Scripts by John Broome. 36 Pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.