Mystery in Space, #72

Published: December 1961

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Issue Contents:
The Multiple Menace Weapon!

Story Featuring Adam Strange

Characters
Other
Story Notes

Original inking credit of Joe Giella changed to Murphy Anderson based on discussion on main list from Bob Bailey and Gene Reed. Pencil and ink credits confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.

The Multiple Menace Weapon!

Story Featuring Adam Strange

Storyline

Adam is pulled to Rann... 100,000 years in the future. He helps them defeat the Klanf.

Characters
Other
Story Notes

The traffic patrolman shows up a few times, with Adam disappearing each time. Pencil and ink credits confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. Story is in two parts of 8.67 and 5.67 pages.

Doom-Trap for Earth!
Credits
Story Notes

Credits for script, pencils and inks, and page count, confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. This issue's letter column confirms Sid Greene as the artist and adds that editor Julius Schwartz was used as a model for a Venusian on page 5, second panel.

Richard C. Carrington
Story Notes

Information for this sequence from Arthur Lortie.

Big - Big - Big News About a Small - Small - Small Super-Hero

Story Featuring The Atom

Credits
Story Notes

Promotional ad for Showcase #35, November-December 1961. Note that cover price was blanked out, as prices were being changed from 10 cents to 12 cents at that time.

Credits
Story Notes

Letters of comment from Bill Sarill, Mike Donnelly, G.B. Love (RBCC fanzine publisher), Richard West, Steve Rettig, and Ken Gentry (who was awarded all 17 pages of the original Adam Strange art from MIS #71 for his letter).

Re-Live the Adventures of Superman When He Was a Boy!

Story Featuring Superboy

Credits
Story Notes

Promotional ad for Superboy #93, December 1961. Note that cover price was blanked out, as prices were being changed from 10 cents to 12 cents at that time. On the page immediately preceding page 10 of the previous story sequence.

People Are People!
Credits
Story Notes

This has been credited to both Don Cameron and Lou Cameron by other indexers. The art is not by Bernard Baily. On the page immediately following page 9 of the previous story sequence.

Story Notes

Back cover.

Story Notes

Inside back cover.

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Inside back cover.

Story Notes

At the bottom of page 9 of the previous story sequence.

Story Notes

Inside front cover.