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!"
Credits
- Pencils: Gil Kane
- Inks: Frank Giacoia
- Letters: Ira Schnapp
Story Notes
Credits for pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
Story Notes
Inside front cover.
The Dog That Saved the Earth!
Credits
- Script: John Broome
- Pencils: Carmine Infantino
- Inks: Bernard Sachs
Story Notes
Credits for pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
"The oldest symbol in comics..."
Storyline
House ad for Sgt. Bilko #4 and The Adventures of Jerry Lewis #41.
Characters
- Phil Silvers
- Jerry Lewis
Credits
- Pencils: Bob Oksner
- Inks: Bob Oksner
Teddy Roosevelt: Guardian of Nature
Credits
- Script: Jack Schiff
- Pencils:
- Inks:
- Letters: Ira Schnapp
Interplanetary Space-Feud!
"In a remote rural area, mountains suddenly fly through the air and whole forests are uprooted!"
Storyline
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.
Characters
- Rhett Shaw
- Whit Carter
- Juk (Alien)
- Koz (Alien)
Credits
- Script: Otto Binder
- Pencils: Carmine Infantino
- Inks: Joe Giella
Story Notes
Credits for pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
"Satellite... Moon..."
Credits
- Script: Julius Schwartz
- Pencils: Morris Waldinger
- Inks: John Sherwood
- Letters: Milt Snapinn
"Among the strangest of all fish is the angler..."
Credits
- Script: Martin Naydel
- Pencils: Martin Naydel
- Inks: Martin Naydel
- Letters: Martin Naydel
The One-Hour Invasion of Earth!
Credits
- Script: Gardner Fox
- Pencils: Frank Giacoia
- Inks: Frank Giacoia
Story Notes
Credits for pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
"If the Earth's 3-billion-year history of life were divided into a 24-hour day..."
Credits
- Script: Julius Schwartz
- Pencils: Morris Waldinger
- Inks: John Sherwood
- Letters: Milt Snapinn
Amazing Inertia!
Credits
- Script: Julius Schwartz
- Pencils: Luca Maresca
- Inks: Luca Maresca
The Weather War of 1977!
"The enemy's launched a tornado attack against us! We've got to make a run for it!"
Storyline
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.
Characters
- Commander John (Johnny) Haldane
- Unnamed traveller
Credits
- Script: Gardner Fox
- Pencils: Sid Greene
- Inks: Joe Giella
Story Notes
Credits for pencils and inks confirmed from Julie Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
Featuring Science Snaps
"The nearest star is 30,000 times as far from the Earth as the Sun!"
Credits
- Script: Martin Naydel
- Pencils: Martin Naydel
- Inks: Martin Naydel
- Letters: Martin Naydel
"To the boys and girls of America..."
Story Notes
Inside back cover.
Story Notes
Back cover.