Strange Adventures, #144
Published: September 1962
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When the Earth Blacked Out!
Characters
- Atomic Knights
Credits
- Pencils: Murphy Anderson
- Inks: Murphy Anderson
- Letters: Ira Schnapp
For the Best in Comics Entertainment
Story Notes
Inside front cover.
When the Earth Blacked Out! [Chapter 1]
"This fight will decide who controls the Earth -- we humans or these mole-creatures!"
Storyline
The Knights meet a race of hostile mole-people from an underground civilization.
Credits
- Script: John Broome
- Pencils: Murphy Anderson
- Inks: Murphy Anderson
"On what basis do scientists theorize that the core of the Earth..."
Credits
- Script: Julius Schwartz (uncertain)
Story Notes
scientific inquiries from readers
Krypton, the World where Superman Was Born, Lives Again!
Credits
- Pencils: Curt Swan
- Inks: George Klein
- Letters: Ira Schnapp
Story Notes
house ad for Superman Annual (DC, 1960 series) #5
When the Earth Blacked Out! Chapter 2
"Shortly, back in Durvale, after the Knights -- including Bryndon, once more on his feet – have learned some astonishing things about their strange, near-blind foes..."
Storyline
The mole-people are defeated because of their aversion to light. Later, Douglas reveals his discovery that the mole-people's first step in their plan was six years earlier when they began the nuclear war that destroyed most life on Earth.
Characters
- Gardner Grayle
- Douglas Herald
- Marene Herald
- Hollis Hobard
- Wayne Hobard
- Bryndon Smith
- mole-creatures
Credits
- Script: John Broome
- Pencils: Murphy Anderson
- Inks: Murphy Anderson
Credits
- Script: Julius Schwartz
Story Notes
Letters submitted by Melvin Herbers; Danny Lasse; Paul Seydor; Rock Wood
Optical -- Visual -- Spectroscopic -- Eclipsing Binary Stars (1)
Storyline
describes the difference between various types of stars
Buzzy's Rules of Water Safety!
Storyline
Wolfie learns a lesson about playing pranks while swimming.
Characters
- Buzzy Brown
- Susie Gruff
- Wolfie
Credits
- Script: Jack Schiff
- Pencils: Win Mortimer
- Inks: Win Mortimer
- Letters: Ira Schnapp
Story Notes
Published in cooperation with the National Social Welfare Assembly. Previously appeared in DC comics cover-dated September 1952.
The Imaginary Dooms!
Storyline
A young science fiction fan is accidentally brought to the planet Kor-Am to save its people from a strange menace, and he figures out the solution that had eluded them.
Credits
- Script: Gardner Fox
- Pencils: Carmine Infantino
- Inks: Joe Giella
- Letters: Gaspar Saladino (uncertain)
Batman and Robin's Most Fantastic Foes!
Credits
- Letters: Ira Schnapp
Story Notes
house ad for Batman Annual (DC, 1961 series) #3
See the Many Exciting Roles of Lois Lane...
Credits
- Pencils: Kurt Schaffenberger
- Inks: Kurt Schaffenberger
- Letters: Ira Schnapp
Story Notes
house ad for Lois Lane Annual (DC, 1962 series) #1
Story Notes
Inside back cover.
Story Notes
Back cover.