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"You will do as I command, or you, too, will be transformed into animals!"
Characters
- Rip Hunter
- Jeff Smith
- Circe
Credits
- Pencils: Mike Sekowsky
- Inks: Joe Giella
- Letters: Ira Schnapp
Buzzy Says "Be Sure of Your Facts!"
"Have some popcorn, fellows!"
Storyline
Five dollars goes missing in the clubhouse, and Buzzy warns the kids to search around before making wild accusations.
Characters
- Buzzy Brown
- Jim
Credits
- Script: Jack Schiff
- Pencils: Win Mortimer
- Inks: Win Mortimer
- Letters: Gaspar Saladino
Story Notes
Inside front cover; published in cooperation with the National Social Welfare Assembly. Previously appeared in DC comics cover-dated April 1952.
The Secret of the Lost Continent
"Rip! Come back!"
Storyline
(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. Rip and Bonnie will be executed as spies, but the "great metal bird" (Time Sphere) awes Alexander. The oncoming Persian army is huge, and Alexander would retreat. Rip jumps in a chariot and panics the elephants with a gasoline-soaked scarf. The war is won. Rip's crew find the tablet refers to a missing map!
Characters
- Bonnie Baxter
- Corky Baxter
- Rip Hunter
- Jeff Smith
- Alexander the Great
Credits
- Script: Jack Miller
- Pencils: Mike Sekowsky
- Inks: Joe Giella
Story Notes
Rip's crew wears civilian clothes, including Bonnie in a fetching red frock. Rip and Jeff also wear pistol belts. Later the crew would adopt green and red uniforms, without guns.
"You'll find Tootsie Roll is the trend at most any game you attend."
Your Passport to Strange Journeys...
Featuring Strange Adventures; House of Secrets
Storyline
house ad for Strange Adventures (DC, 1950 series) #106 and House of Secrets (DC, 1956 series) #22
"This is my clairvoyance machine."
Storyline
Doctor Rocket's new "clairvoyance machine" predicts his wife will burn the dinner roast.
Characters
Credits
- Script: Henry Boltinoff
- Pencils: Henry Boltinoff
- Inks: Henry Boltinoff
- Letters: Henry Boltinoff
Chapter 2: The Forbidden Island
"Rip! That huge dragon - what kind of a place have we stumbled into this time?"
Storyline
Alexander points the crew to the island of Aeaea, where the tablet came from. They journey. They journey there in 700 BC. Rip and Jeff fall into a pit trap. Circe and her "centaurs" warn them off. But Bonnie and Corky find the "centaurs" wear horse frames covered with skins. Circe is a pretend sorceress to protect her people. Cretan warships arrive. Rip's crew build a dragon lifted by the Time Sphere that breathes acetylene fire, and frighten away the Cretans. Circe points out a carved map and the year Atlantis sank. Bonnie is jealous of Circe's gratitude toward Rip.
Characters
- Bonnie Baxter
- Corky Baxter
- Rip Hunter
- Jeff Smith
- Circe
- (fake) centaurs
- Cretan sailors
Credits
- Script: Jack Miller
- Pencils: Mike Sekowsky
- Inks: Joe Giella
"A great water skier named Ben for Tootsie Roll Pops had a yen."
Characters
- Ben
Operation Blackhawks!
"Hawk-a-a-a! That's the ringing cry that summons the bold Blackhawks to daring action!"
Storyline
house ad for Blackhawk (DC, 1957 series) #138
Characters
- Blackhawk
- Blackhawks
Credits
- Pencils: Dick Dillin
- Inks: Sheldon Moldoff
- Letters: Ira Schnapp
Mystery of the Lost Lands
"Atlantis, legendary continent that sank into the sea, may be the most famous of the lost worlds, but it..."
Storyline
Educational piece on Atlantis and other fabled lost cities.
Credits
- Script: Jack Miller (uncertain)
"Planets and stars shine with the same light..."
Storyline
Planets and stars shine with the same light... Fish is a brain food... A person's height remains constant through 24 hours... There are place on Earth where it never rains...
Credits
- Script: Mort Drucker
- Pencils: Mort Drucker
- Inks: Mort Drucker
- Letters: Mort Drucker
Chapter 3: The Doomed Continent
"Rip! That soldier is aiming at the Time Sphere with that energy gun of his!"
Storyline
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. Before the planet Jexjara exploded, the alien race split up to find a "New Jexjara". A colony came here, and would move on, but the dictator D'Zar won't allow it - and an earthquake is imminent. Rip shoots a giant earth globe to block the door. The aliens board ships to fly to New Jexjara. Rip's crew saved an alien race and witnessed the destruction of Atlantis - with more great spectacles to come!
Characters
- Bonnie Baxter
- Corky Baxter
- Rip Hunter
- Jeff Smith
- Aliens from Jexjara
- R'Del (Chief Scientist)
- D'Zar (dictator)
Credits
- Script: Jack Miller
- Pencils: Mike Sekowsky
- Inks: Joe Giella
"A four-minute miler named Dunn ate Tootsie Roll Fudge on the run."
Characters
- Dunn
"This is indeed a strange, mysterious island we are on!"
Storyline
Peter Puptent's worry about monsters gets a jolt from his partner's shadow puppets.
Characters
- Peter Puptent
Credits
- Script: Henry Boltinoff
- Pencils: Henry Boltinoff
- Inks: Henry Boltinoff
- Letters: Henry Boltinoff
Story Notes
Inside back cover.
Story Notes
From Wilson Chemical Co. Back cover.