Strange Adventures, #148
Published: January 1963
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Earth Hero Number One!
Credits
- Pencils: Murphy Anderson
- Inks: Murphy Anderson
- Letters: Ira Schnapp
Featuring Comicpac; Johnny DC
"Hi, kids! I'm your friend, Johnny DC..."
Characters
- Johnny DC
Credits
- Pencils: Curt Swan
- Inks: George Klein
- Letters: Ira Schnapp
Story Notes
Inside front cover advertisement for the Comicpac, "4 DC comics in a plastic bag, which sell for 47 cents." Includes cover reprint of Superman #158 (January 1963).
Earth Hero Number One!
Storyline
In the year 2956, a classroom of students learns about Calvin Jackson, the mailman who prevented an alien invasion of Earth in 1963 (and after whom their school is named).
Credits
- Script: Gardner Fox
- Pencils: Gil Kane
- Inks: Murphy Anderson
For Holiday Giving...
Featuring Johnny DC
Characters
- Johnny DC
Credits
- Letters: Ira Schnapp
Story Notes
house ad for DC comics
Featuring the Mightiest Super-Heroes of All Time!
Credits
- Pencils: Curt Swan
- Inks: George Klein
- Letters: Ira Schnapp
Story Notes
house ad for Superman Annual (DC, 1960 series) #6, on sale November 15
The Secret Adventures of Batman and Robin!
Credits
- Pencils: Curt Swan
- Pencils: Win Mortimer
- Pencils: Sheldon Moldoff
- Inks: Stan Kaye
- Inks: Sheldon Moldoff
- Letters: Ira Schnapp
Story Notes
house ad for Batman Annual (DC, 1961 series) #4, on sale November 8
Touchdown for Picasso!
Storyline
Stan learns that even tough football players can appreciate the fine arts as well.
Credits
- Script: Jack Schiff
- Pencils: Sheldon Moldoff
- Inks: Sheldon Moldoff
- Letters: Ira Schnapp
Story Notes
published in cooperation with the National Social Welfare Assembly
"Scientific measurements have determined that the human eye..."
Credits
- Script: Julius Schwartz (uncertain)
Earth- The Forbidden Planet
Storyline
Rand Tal, an archaeologist from the planet Slann, accidentally lands on Earth, which has been forbidden to all space explorers for some unknown reason.
Credits
- Script: Gardner Fox
- Pencils: Murphy Anderson
- Inks: Sy Barry
Roam the Black Gulfs of Interplanetary Space...
Credits
- Pencils: Carmine Infantino
- Inks: Murphy Anderson
- Letters: Ira Schnapp
Story Notes
house ad for Mystery in Space (DC, 1951 series) #81, on sale December 6
"Antelope shed their antlers every year..."
Featuring Spotlight on Strange Adventures
Credits
- Script: Julius Schwartz
Story Notes
Letters submitted by William R. Sleightholm; Paul Gambaccini; Robert Malisani; Leopold Beaudet; Paul Seydor
The Evolutionary Ensign of Space
Storyline
Tommy's mother tells him how she once used a sewing needle to help defeat an alien invasion.
Characters
- Tommy Parker
Credits
- Script: Gardner Fox
- Pencils: Carmine Infantino
- Inks: Murphy Anderson
"Hi! I'm Johnny DC, the mascot at DC Publications!"
Storyline
house ad for Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Annual (DC, 1962 series) #[13 1962-1963]
Credits
- Pencils: Rube Grossman
- Inks: Rube Grossman
- Letters: Ira Schnapp
Story Notes
Inside back cover.
Story Notes
Sold by Daisy Manufacturing Company. Back cover.