Mystery in Space, #68

Published: June 1961

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Mystery in Space #68

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Issue Contents:
The Fadeaway Doom!
1 page adventure; science fiction
Test Your Talent
Story 1 1 page
Story Notes

Inside front cover.

The Fadeaway Doom!
Story 2 9 pages adventure; science fiction
Storyline

Kaskor uses a modified version of the zeta-beam to conquer Rann. Adam must first find a way to stop the Dust Devils before going after Kaskor.

Characters
Story Notes

Dust Devil also in #70, #84. Page count confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.

Parents Have Rights, Too!
Story 3 1 page advocacy
Credits
The Readers' Choice!

Featuring The Brave and the Bold; Hawkman; Showcase; Aquaman and Aqualad

Story 4 1 page superhero
The Sleeping Peril of Mars!
Story 5 8 pages science fiction

"Only the earth-colony of Mars stood between the super-weaponed warriors from a distant world and the conquest of Earth!"

Characters
  • Captain Alan Woods. The Klurr [Alien race]
Credits
Story Notes

Page count confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.

Featuring Strange Adventures; Green Lantern

Story 6 0 pages

"For the very best..."

Featuring Our Amazing Universe!

Story 7 1 page non-fiction; math & science

"Certain stars -- known as Cepheid Variables..."

Story 8 1 page

"Be my guest at the Clyde Beatty & Cole Bros. 3-ring circus..."

Story 9 1 page
Captain Baboon's Space-War!
Story 10 8 pages science fiction
Storyline

Gordon Walters transfers his brain into the body of Koko, the pet baboon of the alien Ektinor who plans to destroy the Earth.

Characters
  • Commander Evans
  • Gordon Walters
  • Ektinor
  • Koko (baboon)
Story Notes

Page count confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.

Sir Harold Spencer Jones (1)
Story 11 1 page non-fiction; math & science
Story Notes

Information for this sequence from Arthur Lortie. Includes banner at the bottom of the page reading: "The Best Comics Are Still 10¢."

Bicycle Windshield
Story 12 1 page
Story 13 1 page

"Boys! Girls! Ladies! Men!"

Story Notes

Inside back cover.

204 Revolutionary War Soldiers
Story 14 1 page
Credits