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Strange Adventures, #157

Published: October 1963

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Issue Contents:
Plight of the Human Cocoons!
Credits
Plight of the Human Cocoons!
Storyline

Four men from Earth are captured by friendly aliens who need their help to discover the reason why they are shrinking.

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Story Notes

Strange Adventures #161 lists only Joe Giella as inker. Sequel to "Raiders from the Giant World" in Strange Adventures (DC, 1955 series) #119 (August 1960). Information from Bob Bailey.

The Immortality Seekers!
Storyline

Aliens visit Earth to rediscover the secret of immortality which was found there millions of years earlier by another member of their race, but lost before he could reveal it to his home world.

Credits
Story Notes

Letters credit from Bob Bailey.

Rescue by Moonlight!

Story Featuring Space Museum

Storyline

Tommy's father relates the story of Alan Strange, who stopped thieves from stealing some parastil, a rare metal used to make money in the 25th century.

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Story Notes

The narrator's head in panel 3, page 2 appears to have been re-inked by Murphy Anderson to retain uniformity with previous stories. Characters and Murphy Anderson credit info from Bob Bailey.

Letter Column Featuring Spotlight on Strange Adventures

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Story Notes

Letters submitted by Paul B. Schotz; Joe Finley; John Page

Story Featuring Amazing Ratios!

"Two pounds of feed are necessary to develop one pound of chicken-broiler..."

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The Flashiest News of the Year

Story Featuring The Flash

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Story Notes

house ad for Flash Annual (DC, 1963 series) #1, on sale August 15

Play It Safe!
Storyline

A day in the life of a forest ranger (billed as a "true story from the records of the Minnesota Warden Service").

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Story Notes

inside front cover; published in cooperation with the National Social Welfare Assembly

Ad Featuring Revolutionary War Soldiers

Story Notes

Back cover.

Ad Featuring Wallace Brown Greeting Cards

Story Notes

Inside back cover.

Ad Featuring 104 Kings' Knights

Ad Featuring 100 Toy Soldiers

Ad Featuring Task Force

Ad Featuring Blast Off

"Get these favorite, exciting and entertaining comics magazines..."

Ad Featuring Tootsie [all other candies]

Ad Featuring Zenith Stamps

Fight Global Air Battles with Planes of All Nations

Ad Featuring 116 Planes of All Nations

Ad Featuring Tootsie [all other candies]

Ad Featuring Palisades Amusement Park Admission

Ad Featuring Tootsie Roll