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Strange Adventures, #86

Published: November 1957

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The Dog That Saved the Earth!

"Rover, you're the only one in the world who can tell us how to stop that space-bomb from exploding on Earth!"

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The Dog That Saved the Earth!
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Interplanetary Space-Feud!

"In a remote rural area, mountains suddenly fly through the air and whole forests are uprooted!"

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Rhett Shaw returns to his rural village after studying science at college. Whit Carter challenges Shaw to a fight to continue the family feud. Shaw declines and suggests they forget the feud. Shaw drives home but is stopped by a force bubble. The aliens discuss their duel where they use the natural forces of a planet to fight. The villagers shelter in a cave to escape the battle. Shaw hears the aliens telepathically and learns that they have each won 127 victories on other planets. Shaw discovers the alien weapons are vulnerable to nitric acid and they leave Earth after shaking hands.

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"Among the strangest of all fish is the angler..."

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The One-Hour Invasion of Earth!
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The Weather War of 1977!

"The enemy's launched a tornado attack against us! We've got to make a run for it!"

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Young Johnny Haldane is fishing when a stranger thanks him for saving his life. Johnny has never seen him before but the stranger says he will understand in time. All sightings of the stranger over the years are wrong. By 1977 John is a commander in the meteorological military. Controlling weather has taken the place of atomic warfare. John goes out on patrol and finds a man in a snow drift. The man tells John that he is from the year 3957 and must get back to his time machine. The man leaves and because he cannot return to the same time goes back a further 20 years to say thank you.

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"The nearest star is 30,000 times as far from the Earth as the Sun!"

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Amazing Inertia!

Story Featuring Spotlight on Science

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Story Featuring Amazing Ratios!

"If the Earth's 3-billion-year history of life were divided into a 24-hour day..."

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"Satellite... Moon..."

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Story Featuring Jerry Lewis , Story Featuring Sgt. Bilko

"The oldest symbol in comics..."

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House ad for Sgt. Bilko #4 and The Adventures of Jerry Lewis #41.

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Back cover.

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Inside back cover.

"To the boys and girls of America..."

Teddy Roosevelt: Guardian of Nature
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Inside front cover.